| Views in and around Lowtown , Walton.
(also known as "Low Town" and "Lower Town")
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1. Double-decker travelling beneath the railway bridges in School Lane.
The white line in the middle of the road might suggest that there is room for two vehicles to pass but clearly this is not always possible.
Photographed May 2000. |
2. School Lane looking eastwards from the railway bridge. This stretch of the lane was formerly known as Station Road. The station, off to the right of the picture, was closed in the 1960s.
The butcher's shop used to be on the right at the near end of Victoria Terrace. |
3. The Post Office, School Lane. 11th September 2002. |
4. School Lane looking to the west with the two railway
bridges in the distance. Victoria Terrace is on the left with
some interesting stone cottages on the right between the hairdresser's
(formerly the post office) and the present post office at the far end.
Manor Road joins the lane by the hairdresser's. 9th May 2004 |
5. Manor Road towards School Lane. 10th May 2008. |
6. The old Walton Junior School, School Lane. For a brief and
incomplete school history, click
here. Photographed January 2001. |
7. Bridge House Corner, School Lane. There has always been a sharp bend in the road. Over the years, a number of vehicles have failed to negotiate the corner, mounted the pavement and partially demolished the adjacent stone walls. The junior school site awaits redevelopment.
More about Bridge House.
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8. Manor House and Bridge House at the sharp bend in School Lane. The snow-covered track is a public footpath over the old Barnsley Canal Lowtown Bridge to the allotments, Waterways Land and Shay Lane at Soap House Yard - more here.
[08 Dec 2010] |
9. The Millennium Gate, School Field, a few days before the official
opening on 24 June 2000. More ... |
10. The Village Hall. 22nd April 2004. More ... |
11. An example of one of the lane's 18th century cottages, with all
the charm and character that goes with an old stone house. On sale at £47,500. October 2000. |
12. Victoria Terrace, Walton. 24th December 2002.
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13. The Stables, Walton. 24th December 2002 |
14. Living
in Walton - house prices in October & November 2000. One of the
newer houses between the school field and the railway line in The Stables.
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Walton lost its railway station in the 1960s.
"Oh! Dr. Beeching, what have you done?
There once were lots of trains to catch, but soon there will be none!
I'll have to buy a bike, 'cause I can't afford a car.
Oh! Dr. Beeching! What a naughty man you are!"
Oh, Doctor Beeching!, a television sitcom by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, 1995 to 1997. |
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