The Route & its Sights
Taking approximately 30 minutes, the full guided tour includes the following sights
1. Queens Park - Carnival field
2. Uppermoor, first Carnival supplied Defibrillator, Roundhead encampment from the English Civil War 3. Pudsey St.Lawrence Cricket Club, Thomas & Sarah Lund Almshouses 4. Chapeltown corner, Tram terminus & Congregational Church 5. Chapeltown Post Office, the Golden Lion, James Stillings Boot Factory, Grove House - William Dibb Scales 6. Old All Saints Chapel, the Cenotaph, Greenside School, Sparrow Park 7. Tudor house, the Pudsey Conservative club & Chapeltown shops 8. Pudsey St.Lawrence Parish church & the old Vicarage 9. Pudsey Park, lake, bandstand, bowling green & drinking fountain 10. The old Park public house & Northrop’s Yard 11. The Unitarian Chapel, Freemasons Lodge, the Butchers Arms & (old) Mechanics Institute 12. The Primitive Methodists Chapel, Police Station, Rates Office, Toft House & Cinema 13. Crawshaw Field / Pudsey Park children’s play area - 1928 Royal visit 14. Pudsey Bus station, (old) marketplace, Pudsey Baths, Fire Station & old Corporation electricity exchange 15. Waver Green - old village green, Edwardian Post Office & the Midland Bank 16. Druggist Corner - the original pharmacy, the famous Tram crash at Lowtown 17. Pusey Trinity - the million pound Chapel, Scales & Salter boot factory, Oven bakers shop, old petshop, Pudsey Grammar school & Richardshaw Lane school 18. The former Undertakers, the terraces of Cemetery road, the Building Field 19. Hudsons garage 20. Pudsey Cemetery, lodge & Chapel |
21. Grove Works, Prospect Mills (later Wilkinson and Warburtons)
22. Owlcotes and Hillfoot, the demolished Prospect pub, the Marsh mill 23. Highest point in Pudsey, quarries, the Reservoir, great views all round, the Waterloos 24. St. James Methodist Chapel, Delph End & The Gibraltar, the legendary Cider Annie 25. Waterloo Mills 26. The Marsh, Mount Tabor, Waterloo Infants 27. Middleton Bros Crane works - giant Oilrigs, Uppermoor mill 28. New Street Mills/Pudsey Worsted Mill 29. Greenside Train Station, tunnel & embankment, The Royal Hotel, the Treacle Mines visitors centre, WW2 bombs 30. Greenside, Smalewell (the small well), the White Cross, Foundry 31. Presbyterian houses, Travellers rest, Air Raid Shelter, Bankhouse Lane, Fartown Christian fellowship, Mount Zion 32. Asda, Claughton Garth & Fartown Mill, The Fleece and Regent pubs 33. Fulneck Moravian community 34. The Alma tannery, Boars Head 35. Cliffe Mill & no railway for the Railway pub, Victoria Works 36. Littlemoor, Pudsey Bapitists, the Valley, Brick Mill & Firlands Mill 37.The old railway line, Ravensmount, Crawshaw School 38. Brunswick Shed, Crawshaw & Try Mill and Nobles, The Robert Salter Almshouses, former bus garage 39. The Feast field on Robin Chase, St. Andrews Methodists Church 40. The Manor Hall, the Mechanics Institute/Town Hall/Magistrates Court/Cells/Library, Booths Yard |