Windhill buildings

There are one or two quite interesting old buildings in Windhill, around the bottom of Leeds Road. I've talked about the old Carnegie Library (HERE) before.                                                                                                                                                            Less ornate but constructed in an interesting flat-iron shape at the junction of two roads, the one above is now (I believe) residential apartments for young people through the Key Living Project, providing supported accommodation and helping them into training and work. The building is not as old as you might think; according to the datestone above the door it was built in 1928. I can’t find out what it was originally, whether industrial or residential.

A little further down the road, there is Windhill Manor (below), originally, I think, a Victorian school building. It is currently for sale as offices with a caretaker's house. In the 1980s it housed 'The World of Sooty', a museum honouring the glove puppet bear, made famous in the 1950s on children's TV and created by Bradford-born Harry Corbett. It is, I think, rather a nice old building but sadly it's location isn't great. It's at a busy junction and the whole area is now a bit run-down and needs investment.  

Just opposite, there's a pub: The Traveller's Rest, sadly closed at present because of our lockdown. Because Windhill isn't a conservation area, there is frustratingly little information online about its history and buildings, but the pub and attached cottages must date back to the early 1900s, if not older.