It's not often you see this junction (where Saltaire Road meets the Bradford-Keighley road) free of traffic. I just happened to hit a quiet spell on my evening stroll. The prominent building in the middle distance, 1 Albert Road, now an estate agent, was once the home of the chief cashier of Salts Mill. It was the only detached house in Saltaire and marks the south-western corner of the original Victorian village.
From the opposite side of the junction, we note that The Rosse Pub has been reinvented as a 'Klubhaus' bierkeller. I've recently discovered that behind it at the bottom of Moorhead Lane was once a tram depot used by the horses that drew horse-drawn trams, and then by two steam trams. You could post a letter in a post box on the trams and they'd drop them off at the sorting office in Forster Square in Bradford. The depot was used until 1904 when a bigger tramshed (now Salts Brewery) was built for electric trams. The Moorhead Lane depot is still there, now housing a business.
The Klubhaus 'garden' was quiet so that gave me the opportunity to photograph the brightly painted chairs and tables - and the artificial grass!
Further up Moorhead Lane, St Peter's Church is slotted in among the houses, its stonework glowing softly in the evening light.
A nice evening stroll, thank you for taking us along! Funny that there should be a "Klubhaus Bierkeller" in Saltaire - do you know whether the owner/tenant is German? Artificial grass... ugh... But of course I like the yellow table :-)
ReplyDeleteThat fake grass! I remember having a screened patio in a rental in Tampa, and hosing it down to clean the stuff…impossible! It’s great to consider the evolution of the trams, and the postal service!
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