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Yeadon Landmarks

Chapel Hill

This is one of the few old roads to remain in Yeadon, as the name suggests it was the route to the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel which was demolished in 1958 and replaced…

Chapel Lane

View of properties on Chapel Lane at the junction with Haworth Lane. On the left is a fish and chip shop, Rueben Yeadon has a clothes shop on the right edge.

Church Farm

A steam threshing machine is at work on the farm, on the left a man is astride a waggon feeding the grain produce into the threshing machine….

Church Institute

Church Institute, Yeadon. The Church Institute is the building in the centre now converted into apartments. Hudson’s garage is presumably the single storey…

Clahane Drive

Clahane Drive, Henshaw, Yeadon, a small development of houses on the former railway goods yard off Henshaw Lane.

Clayton Grove

Clayton Grove is located off Ivegate and leads onto the Methodist Church / Health Centre car park. Offices for Marshall Wooldridge can be seen, the stone…

Cliffe House

Situated on South View Road, Cliffe House was built for Edward Denison, owner of Westfield Mill. Mrs Denison was still living there in 1923….

Club Row

Numbers 2 – 5 Club Row, located off Cemetery Road the street still exists but with some old properties demolished and new ones built to replace them.

Copt Royd Street

This street was at the bottom of Kirk Lane, before Nunroyd Park, and a little lower down than Leafield Mill on the opposite side. All these houses were to be demolished….

Coverley Rise

Coverley Rise was built on the site of Aireborough Grammar School, the street name was adopted from the name of one of the school houses, the other 3…

Cricketers Green

n the foreground is a cricket pitch which is now the site of houses on Cricketers Green / Illingworth Close (September 2012). In the background the long…

Dam (1)

Men with large drag nets catching fish in the tarn prior to it being drained.

Dam (2)

Skating on Yeadon Dam.

Dam (3)

A man and a boy fishing on what must have been a warm day, the boy has taken his shirt off.

Dam (4)

Children fishing in the lake, to the right is Yeadon Sailing Club.