Buildings In The Village Today
This selection of photos is of buildings that are of historical importance, or that have a general interest in the village today.
Fairburn Cottage built in 1875. The people that built the house lived in it and went on to build the rest of Church Road. The house on the right was originally two houses; This is why the street numbers start at 4. Info courtesy of Bob Baines who grew up in the house on the left.
Lake Lock (down towards River)
This building is said to have been the original premises of the Thatched House
226 Canal Lane
This house was the original premises of Gledhills Butchers
Stanley Grove
Victorian housing
Spa Fold
Built as stables for the Deep Drop Colliery in the 1830s, later converted to pit houses. Reneveated in the 1990s after being derelict for many years
Deep Drop Colliery Offices
Later converted to the Victoria WMC then became the Grove Park. Converted into flats in 2003
Parkside
Old workshops or farm buildings
Newmarket House
Today this house is 100ft above Aberford Road, this was the old Aberford Road Cross road with Methley. When the duel carridgeway was built the hill was cut away.
Aberford Road Post Office
Run by Postlady Kathy Owen in the 1940s/50s
Stanley Ferry Boatyard
Garden Gate Inn
19th Century Ale house, the building itself dates back to the 17th Century
Grade two listed building opposite the old Church
Stoke House
Built as part of the Hatfeild Estate
Hatfeild Cottage
Grade two listed and built in the 17th Century
This house is belived to have been one of the houses owned by the Lane Ends Quarry Master, built in the mid 19th Century
Oldest surviving houses on Baker Lane built in the mid 19th Century
Lane Ends WMC
Today the building is in use as a Nursery
Gledhills Butchers
This building was originally a cow shed owned by the Bramleys who were local farmers
Lane Ends Fish Shop
Originally joined to a row of old houses, the wall of which can be seen on the left of the building
Chapel of Rest
Built near to the site of the old Stanley Cottage Hospital
Old Saint Peters School
Today this is in use as Stanley Saint Peters Church Centre
Old Saint Peters School
Today this is in use as the local Youth Centre
Masons Arms
Converted to a house after closure
Large detached house Lee Moor
Lee Moor Infants School
Closed in 1936
Old Workshop on Canal Lane
Shop at the top of Baker Lane
Armitages Row on Baker Lane
Built in the 1890s
Garden Gate Inn
Closed in the 1930s, also the site of Stanleys Air Raid Siren during World War Two
Fernleigh House Aberford Road
Stanley Vicarage
Garden Gate Inn
Old toilet block, these are now few and far between in their original condition
Aberford Road Cottages
The Bullwagon Road ran behind these houses
Mr Cheesboroughs Joiners Shop
The undertakers building was to the right of this house
Today this is used as an unofficial dog rescue home
Ferry Lane Chapel
Converted to flats in the early 1990s
Saint Swithens Cottage
Mr Cheeseboroughs undertakers shop
Now in use as an outbuilding
Old Police house
The house on the right was the old police house
17th Century houses on Aberford Road
Belived to have been part of the Hatfeild Estate
The White house was used as a shop up to the 1960s
The old lady who ran this shop in the 1950s was partly blind
Lake Lock
Craskies Row
Old Miners cottages
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