Brierley Village web site - photographs in the Baipip archives

Photograph number: Buildings 101

June 2002

Site of the former Brierley Colliery and more recently Amco offices

This photograph was taken from the top of the old “Ginny run” looking towards Church Street. To give you some idea of where the view is, the roof you can see rising above the long flat building is where the entrance to the yard was from the Hillside estate at the top of Brierley Hill. A bungalow from Hillside Mount can just be seen on the right of the photograph. The new housing estate is built here now

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Photograph number: Buildings 102

1959

The “Laburnums”

At this time the home of the Bower family. The house is situated on the left hand side of the road going out of Brierley on the way to Hemsworth

Photograph and information supplied by Brian Bower who now lives in Doncaster

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Photograph number: Buildings 102

1959

The “Laburnums”

At this time the home of the Bower family. The house is situated on the left hand side of the road going out of Brierley on the way to Hemsworth

Photograph and information supplied by Brian Bower who now lives in Doncaster

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Photograph number: Buildings 103

Date unknown

Farriers Cottage Cordeux Corner

Farriers Cottage stands on Cordeux Corner and was once the Farriers Arms Inn

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Photograph number: Buildings 104

Date unknown

Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage stands on Church Street and is now the home of Andy and Sharon Lappage (March 2009)

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Photograph number: Buildings 105

Date unknown

Hanson’s Smithy

The shop was situated on the right hand side of the road looking from the Post Office towards Barnsley Road. On the photograph you can see a road sign, which would have pointed left for Barnsley and right for Pontefract.

On the opposite side of the road to the Three Horse Shoes, a small triangular patch of grass and brambles is all that remains of the site where Hanson’s Smithy once stood. The last blacksmith to trade there Mr Charles Hanson, took over the shop on the death of his brother George in 1912. It was the last of the three blacksmiths' shops in the area, the other two being at Shafton and South Hiendley, to fall a victim to the march of time. It was pulled down to make room for the widening of the road at the Three Horse Shoes corner around 1932. Charles Hanson protested vigorously, and appealed against the insufficient compensation paid to him. He finally obtained permission to re-build the shop a little further back in the orchard behind (now Haldane Close). Unfortunately, Mr Hanson died before this could be accomplished and about three years after his original shop had been taken down

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Photograph number: Buildings 106

1967

St Paul’s School

Photograph reproduced from an old newspaper cutting

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Photograph number: Buildings 107

1955

Burntwood Hall

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Photograph number: Buildings 108

1955

Burntwood Hall

This photograph was taken from the roadside

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Photograph number: Buildings 109 This photograph is on line. Click the photograph number to view

Date unknown

1 Cross Hill Brierley

I am informed that this house stood on the left hand side of Brierley as you enter from Hemsworth and that at one time it was the first post office in Brierley. The little lad in the garden is Harold Winham

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Photograph number: Buildings 110

1969

Lindley House

This photograph would have been taken from Common Road

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Photograph number: Buildings 111

1969

Lindley House

Rear view of Lindley house taken from the gardens

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Photograph number: Buildings 112

1998

Lindley House

Rear view of Lindley house taken from the gardens

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Photograph number: Buildings 113

1998

Lindley House

Rear view of Lindley house taken from the gardens. The owner at this time May Beaumont Schofield is on the photograph

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Photograph number: Buildings 114

1998

Lindley House

The drive and entrance porch

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Photograph number: Buildings 115

1998

The old barns Lindley House

The late May Beaumont Schofield informed me, that this building was actually older than the house itself. Over the years this building has been used as a fire watch meeting place and indeed a fire engine was garaged here at one time. Other uses have been a meeting place for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides etc. On the wall inside the building is a blackboard and May believes that at one time the building was used as a classroom for the children of Lindley House and other children of the Gentry within the village

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Photograph number: Buildings 116

1998

The old barns Lindley House (close up)

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Photograph number: Buildings 117

1998

St Paul’s Church

Taken from the back. Notice the boarded up windows and also the hairdressers and the fish shop before they were extended

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Photograph number: Buildings 118

1998

Inside Brierley Hall

At the time this photograph was taken the Social Services Department was using the offices. The original wood panelling can still be seen along with the original fireplace. This room was also used as the Colliery Managers office in the film Brassed off

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Photograph number: Buildings 119

2004

St Paul’s Cottage

St Paul’s Cottage as seen from the old St Paul’s school playground

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Photograph number: Buildings 120

1998

Brierley Village Club

The back view of the Village Club, which was once, the Church Institute

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Photograph number: Buildings 121