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Parsonage Lane, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 1FG

This block of flats was built on the site of Manor House, which had been sold in 1909 to the Borough of Brighouse and was used as Education Offices.

These are mostly sycamores, but there is an elm with a long drooping branch and a cherry tree and a Rowan in the foreground. These trees are a playground for two squirrels.

This plant is very similar to Mitrewort, which is native to the USA. Perhaps it is a 'garden escape'. It has tiny flowers on short stems branching directly from the main stem, They have five white petals, like little lacy caps, on a green base a few millimetres in diameter. The leaves are at intervals up the stem, lobed and serrated, upper surface soft and lower surface veined. The leaves clasp the stem, which is round with white hairs. The plant, or group of plants, is growing amongst grass near the base of a tree. See Image] for a close view of the leaves.

This shows the leaves of the plant shown in Image It looks rather like a Tellima species native to the USA. I have seen the plant in two other places, one alongside a footpath in Stainland and one in the garden of the Benslow Music Trust in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Perhaps they are garden escapes.

I have been advised that this North American plant is a common garden escape. It seems to like a lightly shaded position under trees.

This was built in 1904-7 to replace the New Connection Chapel in Bethel Street, which was sold for commercial use and still exists. The architectural style is an Arts and Crafts version of Perpendicular. The glass-fronted passageway on the right links the chapel to the Sunday School. The road to the left of the chapel is the lower end of Halifax Road, now cut off by the bypass road and part of a car park.

At SE143229. At the top left is Knightsbridge Court, a block of retirement flats. To the right is The Links, a recently-built block of flats, and past it the Brighouse bypass going eastwards to meet the Bradford and Wakefield roads.

Brighouse Grammar School Sixth Form Centre, Parsonage Lane. The building was initially for the Brighouse & District Girls' Secondary School, and was designed by Sutcliffe & Sutcliffe and work started in June 1909. It opened on 6 September 1910. The Brighouse & District Technical School was opened in the same building in September 1910, having been moved from the Mechanics' Institute. There were additional premises for engineering and other subjects. Following the Education Act (1944), it became the Brighouse Girls' Grammar School. In 1984 there was a major upheaval of Calderdale schools, and the Girls' Grammar school merged with Brighouse High School. There was a transfer of pupils year by year and eventually the building became the High School Sixth Form College. Sources: R Mitchell Brighouse: The birth and death of a borough 1976, Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion website.

There are two of these in Brighouse; the other is on the Salvation Army building.