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Raw Hill, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 3NQ

This is captioned P.H. on the 1893 and 1918 1:2500 maps. It closed in 1926. It is aligned with Raw Hill, which is no longer a street, rather than with Jumble Dyke.

The miniature town centre of Rastrick is towards the NE corner of the square, in a bottleneck where the old and new roads through the township join together for a short distance. The former Rastrick Grammar School, now an independent prep. school, is in the background.

Part of the old road from Brighouse to Elland, turnpiked in the 18C but superseded by a new road in the Calder Valley in the 19C. I would be interested to know what the building on the left was – evidently a shop of some sort, with a blocked taking-in door and a girder for a hoist. The 1850 six-inch map shows a Smithy here. If you look at Image, at the corner of the road junction, probably in front of the steps, there was a turnpike road guide stone shown on the 1933 1:2500 map but probably taken away during the Second World War. I hope it in safe keeping, but where? On the Crowtrees Lane side "T Brook Sculptor, To JUNCTION 13 Miles, LEEDS 13 Miles, Anno Domini" On the Jumble Dyke side "To LEEDS 13 Miles, ELLAND 2 Miles, 1823".

The church hall for St Matthew's Church (CofE and Methodist). On the site of Rastrick Church School, which opened in 1867 in the Sunday School building of 1865, which was in the Gothic style. It closed following the opening of Carr Green School in 1912, and the building was demolished in 1960 to make way for the present building.

This was taken from the junction with Church Street. I thought that the house behind the telephone pole was the Lower George Inn, as it still has brackets for what might have been an inn sign on the wall, but old maps show that the inn was on the other side of the road, see Image

Built with the front curving round from Church Street to Thornhill Road. The old nameplate for Thornhill Road is still on the wall. The entrance on the right was into the drapery department.