Snickets, Ginnels & Shortcuts 2 (Town Gate to Wyke Lane) WYKE, BRADFORD

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[@janmargaret7972]

The ginnell from The Brown Cow was different when I lived at the Low Odd in the sixties. There was a big mill on the left and you could hear the looms clacking as you walked down and on the right there was a big fenced off field. There was a little pony in the field and the chap who owned it used to let me ride it. I made a makeshift jump and when I tried to make it jump it stopped dead and I flew over the jump on my own. 😂 When you got to the end it opened up onto Wyke Common, none of those houses were there. I used to walk that way with my friends to Wyke Manor School. There were lots more little shortcuts we used to go through to get to school.

[@DodgersTrips]

Thanks for another interesting post. It's made me dig out a 1905 map which I use quite a bit. Obviously this was before Wyke Manor was built which I'm guessing was in the early 1960s. The area you are talking about is all fields. On the map Wyke Common is shown as being on the right hand side of Wyke Lane. There was also an area on the right of what became Wilson Road and that was shown on the map as Upper Common. Its all good stuff you can;t beat these personal stories. Thank you for sharing yours and I'm sure other people will enjoy reading it too.

[@peterbrown1531]

That's right, opposite the mill it was all fields down to the RNO Works and across to the council houses on Wyke Common.After the long frontage of the textile mill beyond its East gabble was a collection of timber sheds some f which were the joiners shop of Jim Dent who did much of the joinery for the houses down Green Lane and up Clare Rd.The contractor being Arthur Hanson and the foreman my father Arthur Brown who bought one of the houses he built in Green Lane..The narrow snicket from the end of Garden Field was just a dirt path when I was young during the war, the right hand side of that was the wide open are of Wyke Common, where we had great times playing cricket and soccer,riding our bikes round it and Jumping about on the mountain of old tyresof all sizes that Mr. Smith kept there.At the end of the snicket, the long row of Fountain Terrace is where my paternal grandma lived and my father was brought up. The houses had cast iron Yorkshire ranges for cooking and heating and Grandma Brown could do miracles with hers ,making the most delectable pastries,apple and rhubarb pies etc.The long gardens and hen runs behind the houses ended at Wyke Temperance cricket field. I can go on at length.Now from Australia I see how much has changed and I have to find familiar reference [points that are the older buildings .

[@briansdiecastthailandstoth6747]

My Aunty lives on Garden Field.

[@DodgersTrips]

Hello Brian, hope you are well. I wonder if you saw your Aunty's house. Pleased you took the time to comment and hope you enjoyed the video.

[@davidharwood6209]

I presume Dodger most of these paths would have crossed open farmland,for miners etc to get to work.?

[@DodgersTrips]

Hi David, great to hear from you again. The majority of these areas was certainly farmland up to the late Victorian era when terraced properties started to be built. A lot of the snickets are bordered by newer housing so I think they have been created naturally as passageways between the late 19th Century cottage properties and the build up of Wyke as we know it today through the 20th Century.