| Title | Town Street (2) |
| Date | 1947 |
| Location | Rawdon |
| Photo ID | J470 |
| Comment | A view of Town Street looking in the direction of St. Peter’s Church. On the left is Egerton Terrace and below that National School, to the right was the Naggs Head Ale House. |
J490 – Town Street, c1949.
Town Street – c1949
A view of Town Street from near the top of Carr Lane.
T169 – Town Street, 1949.
Town Street – 1949
A postcard photograph looking down Town Street from the junction with Intake Lane and a Newsagents shop on the left which is now a private dwelling.
Egerton Terrace also on the left.
The telephone box was moved and re positioned against the gable end of the house on the right hand side in the early 1950s.
The Newsagents were the Hardaker’s, then Austin’s and finally Stead’s before being used by a printing firm and later a dwelling.
T170 – Town Street, 1949.
Town Street – 1949
On the reverse is the following:
Billing Farm, Rawdon, Monday Morning
Dear Anne and Billie,
Do you know this PC, I said to Billie I won’t write to Anne but I will ring her when we got to St Ives and give her a surprise but however before ? ? ? dial we shall be in St Ives on the 8th of June somewhere about tea time but we are staying 3 nights at the St Ives Bay Hotel, is that far from you? I will ring you from there when we arrive all being well. It will be nice to see you again. We have sold the shop so had a bit more spare time, although Bill and Arthur have plenty to do on the farm they are on their own now so they are alright there. Wishing you all the best, see you soon, love ? ?.
D049 – Town Street, 1950s.
Town Street – 1950s
Wentworth Terrace situated on Town Street just below the Emmott Arms, these houses were built around 1912 and sold for £49 10/-.
S205 – Town Street, c1950.
Town Street – 1950
A view of Wentworth Terrace from the junction of Over Lane/Larkfield Road, with the Emmott Arms on the left. The top of Well Lane can be seen on the immediate right of the image just behind the bus stop.
X774 – Alms Houses, c1970.
Town Street – c1970
The two alms houses to the left of St. Peter’s Church were built by Thomas Layton and survived until the 1970s. Here we see one in a state of disrepair, the other to the right is out of view. The large building behind was the womens institute and the white modern building on the rigjht was the new vicarage. The small track was called Back Lane in the 50’s and 60’s. In front of the institute was a single story wooden structure which was utilised as a temporary school when the National burnt down in 1951. It also supported both cubs and scouts of 17th Airedale.
N248 – Town Street, 2014.
Town Street – 2014
The Billing Tea Room and the Post Office on Town Street, which was the former Naggs Head Ale House.
N259 – Town Street, 2014.
Town Street – 2014
On the left is a hairdressers shop, further along is a Londis Store, then a café and Post office.
N317 – Town Street, 2014.
Town Street – 2014
The Village Bakery on Town Street, opposite the Post Office. St. Peter’s (C of E) Primary School, is just out of sight on the left.
R303 – Town Street, 2014.
Town Street – 2014
Sunningdale is a nursing and care home on Town Street.
Photographer Edwy Harling.
F467 – Town Street, 2014.
Town Street – 2014
Wentworth Terrace still going strong, wonderful houses and well built.
Photographer Edwy Harling.
F468 – Town Street, 2014.
Town Street – 2014
On the right the entrance to Grange Farm now the entrance to St. Peter’s School car park. On the left, first building is a new adddition and used to be Farrer’s Engineering premises at the top of the Carr Lane junction, the second premises was Emsley’s General Stores.
Photographer Edwy Harling.
T529 – Town Street, 2019.
Town Street – 2019
The Village Bakery on Rawdon Town Street, October 2019.
Photographer Clive Woods.
Previous Comments:
Re D049
valryan85a
We lived in Wentworth Terrace when I was born and shortly after moved to Larkfield Avenue. My Dad worked at Emsleys General Store in Town Street.
22 December 2013
Re N248
Val Ryan (nee Hoare)
My Mum was born at the Nags Head (now Billing Tearooms) My gran Clara Louisa Long and husband Walter Long ran the beerhouse frequented by local farm workers and labourers, from early 1900s to early 1920s. After Walter died my gran remarried Jack Braithwaite a local farmer and they moved over the road to be tenant farmers of Grange Farm next to Town Farm (known as Woods Farm) until about 1945 when Jack died. These were hard times for farmers but all my family talk of wonderful times there during haymaking and happy family Christmas parties in the farmhouse. I was unaware of it but I spent my early childhood in my pram and playing at the farm when my parents lived in Wentworth Terrace. Dad Harold worked at Emsleys just across the road from the farm and Mum Renie worked at Storey Evans on Larkfield.
13 January 2019
Re J490
adminCWAB1
The sycamore tree in the 4th picture is still standing proud on the right of the entrance to St. Peter’s car park.
26 August 2017
Re J490
Graham Branston
Carr Lane is down to the left of photo 1. The white cottage has been demolished. Behind it is what used to be the very popular Emsley family store with a corn mill behind the shop. You can see the shop sign. Val Ryan’s father worked there for a while. Further along on the same side was a small abattoir with a butcher’s shop opposite – fresh meat daily from the farm on the other side of Town Street which was next to Billing Farm Cottage, to right of photo.
26 August 2017
Re J490
Debbie Trimm
My Great grandmother Esther Barrett lived in the cottage that is opposite the top of Carr Lane, No: 31, it is shown in several pictures, the farm is next door to the cottages, I can remember playing with one of the boys at the farm as a child when I visited. My gran father Walter Barrett then got the house which passed to my grandmother Kathleen Barrett where my mother lived with her sister and brother. Right opposite the house my uncle worked at the engineer works which was later demolished.
14 March 2022.
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 04 February 2021.
Last updated: 16 January 2024 – Photo ID: T529. 27 September 2023 – Photo ID: F467 & F468. 30 August 2023 – Photo ID: X774. 06 November 2022 – All images updated.
