Just on the Shipley edge of Saltaire, on the canal side, there is a block of old cottages called Jane Hills, built in stages between 1796 and the mid 19th century. I took these two photos because I thought the garden was so pretty, with flowers spilling over the fence and a row of annuals brightening up the canalside.
The picture below is one that I took about three years ago, though I don't think a lot has changed since then. I included it here to show the older cottages that sit at right angles to the ones in the pictures above. They say that at least one of them (the large house at the back in the bottom photo) was a lodging house for canal boatmen. The oldest building, adjacent to that house, is now a row of three cottages but (according to Historic England) used to be a cottage and a wool workshop, and you can see (photo above) the blocked up 'taking-in door' on the gable end where goods used to be loaded into the building from the canal.
It must originally have been a fairly isolated and rural spot, until they built Salts Mill just along the canal in the early 1850s. Since then, mills and business premises have surrounded the cottages, though now, at the back, the HMRC building has been demolished and left as a rubble-strewn site. It may or may not one day become a residential area!
Love seeing the little gardens of these old houses...beautiful shots with flowers and the old stonework.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely little places.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures, reminding me of what I like so much about summer.
ReplyDeleteThe gardens spilling out of the gardens are so pretty. Those old bricks look good too.
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