The former National School (side view), School Street, Dewsbury
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The former National School (side view), School Street, Dewsbury
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 13 Sep 2007
Built in 1843 for the National Society for the Poor. This was Dewsbury's second 'National School'. The pancake dog on the roof (at the left end in the photograph), taken from the old vicarage in the 1880s, is alleged to jump down for his pancake when the bell is rung on Shrove Tuesday. Now the Howland Centre of the League of Friendship for disabled persons.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.690284
Longitude
-1.631987