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Woodside View, HALIFAX, HX4 8BP

The name in title is the caption on one version of the large scale OS map. Another just has 'Convent' and a sign outside the building reads 'Sisters of St Joseph'.

A development of housing off Green Lane. A search of Calderdale planning applications archive reveals that the planning permission was granted in 1989 so presumably built c.1990.

Workhouse Lane was a narrow road next to the gable on the left. The new road and houses are Featherbed Close.

These are clearly two pairs of houses, with a difference in the courses of stone at the join. The left pair almost certainly later than the other pair, which has a datestone inscribed 'J.M.M. / Spring Lodge' / 1854' (see Image). This seems an odd name for a pair of houses. The house on the right is quite small, as it is squeezed into the angle between Green Lane and Workhouse Lane. These were called 'The Old Lane' and 'Nab End Lane' on the 1850 six-inch map. I have since been informed that the reason the houses were called Spring Lodge is because there was a well at the back of the property. This was a shared yard were the washing / laundry was done and also housed the external WCs. This shared yard is now incorporated into the house and is fittingly a downstairs bathroom and utility room. The JMM may relate to the initials of the owner of the property which research has suggested might be the name Mallinson.

This was the original St Patricks catholic school before a new school was built at Hullen Edge. The pupils entered by the Green lane entrance. The nuns who taught there lived in the large house at the bottom of (old) Feather Bed Lane just above Workhouse Lane. It is captioned 'Convent' on the large-scale OS map.

The date 1854 shows that this was one of the first houses to be built on Green Lane, then called The Old Lane, as otherwise only Woodhouse and a group of houses at Little Bradley are shown on the 1850 six-inch map.

There was a house here called Broomfields, with large grounds that have been developed as a housing estate.

The plaque reads Middle Dean Street Chapel 1865, with 'Middle' in Gothic lettering for some reason. This was a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, one of two in West Vale. It was the West Vale Squash Club when this photograph was taken, but has since been converted to apartments.

The building bears the name Middle Dean Street Chapel but fronts onto Green Lane. According to a site visitor, it has been converted to luxury apartments, despite the closed appearance given by the blocked up windows.

The stone is inscribed "Middle Dean Street Chapel 1865". For context, see Image