Images of Kirkheaton at the turn of the twentieth century.
We will be adding other images over time. If anyone has any other interesting historical photographs of Kirkheaton or the surrounding area and is willing to share them with the community please get in touch.- sue.bowyer@yettontogether.org. Then we could scan them to put on the website and return the originals.
Click on each image to get a larger view. All photographs © and courtesy of Kirklees Image Archives
- Laneside/Hole Bottom
- Looking towards Newland Road
- Skating on fields at the bottom of Kirkheaton
- Church Lane
- Town Top Co-op now Greens Furnishings
- Crossroads at Town Top
- Looking across to Stafford Hill Lane & St Mary’s Fold
- Stafford Hill Lane
- Shop Lane
- Doctor’s Row
- Beaumont Arms
- Kirkheaton railway line over the R Colne
- Whitley Hall 1931
- Conservative Club
- Disused Kirkheaton station 1950’s
- Mrs Gladys Sowerby and her son Bob outside the shop at the junction of Heaton Moor Road and Moorside Road in about 1933 Thanks to her daughter Ann Shaw nee Sowerby for the correction
- Cuckstool fountain at the top of Orchard Road
- Shop next to Yeaton Cask [formerly Lumb’s]
- Bankfield Lane shops
- Beaumont Square shops – now TA Shaws
- Queen Victoria’s Jubilee fountain at the top of Orchard Road in the 1950’s
- Socialist Club at the bottom of New Road
- Field Head Co-op
- Houses Hill
- Shop Lane mills
- Shop Lane Mills 1880
- National school on the site of later school on St Mary’s Lane

































