Title | No:13 Micklefield Lane |
Date | c1900 |
Location | Rawdon |
Photo ID | D150 |
Comment | This was it is believed to be the home of the Parratt family. The master of the house was a stonemason. The following seven photographs are presumably of the Parrett family. The property is now divided into two dwellings, 13 and 13a. (September 2013) |
No: 14 & No:15 Micklefield Lane – c1900
No’s: 14 and 15, Micklefield Lane, 14 is on the left.
This is next to Micklefield Mews, converted from the from the former Little London School’.
It wasn’t a faith (Baptist) school though it may have been used by them for a while.
Based on Quaker educational principles, as well as giving children (infants) a basic education, it also aimed at training them in skills such as weaving, knitting & boot & shoe repairs, which it was thought would help them eventually make a living. It was founded/financed by Robert Milligan who was a wealthy Bradford based woollen cloth merchant who lived at Acacia.
He became first Mayor of Bradford in 1847.
I think he also became a Bradford M.P.
He was a friend of Titus Salt who was the second Mayor of Bradford.
His business partner, Henry Forbes, became Bradford’s third mayor.
Milligan & Forbes also financed the former Congregational Chapel, Sunday school and manse on New Road Side (JCT600 roundabout), now Trinity Church.
Additional information by Graham Branston.
Previous Comments:
Re E079
hannah1
The house in the middle with the big square bay window used to be a dental surgery.
07 August 2013.
Re D150
John Trevor Ellis
The house I was brought up in. We moved from Lombard Street about 1952. It was converted early 60s to accommodate Grandma Ellis who moved from Gladstone Road after her husband passed. I left in 64 to join the army leaving mum, dad and sister Vivien there. After mum passed in mid 90s, dad continued to live there until he couldn’t cope then moved in with his daughter in Otley, before passing in 2005. A lot of changes since then!
27 April 2021.
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Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 13 April 2021.
Last updated: 02 November 2022 – All images updated. 28 April 2021 – Photo ID: D150.