This page contains photographs of the Knutton, Cross Heath and Lower Milehouse area. Please take time to look through the photographs and let us know if you have any comments.

If you have suitable photographs of the area now or how it looked in the past, or of local events and community activities and would like them to be displayed on this website please contact Laurence on 01782 635200.

Click here for Down Your Way photos

All photos © English Partnerships 2005

All photos © English Partnerships 2005

All photos © English Partnerships 2005

All photos © English Partnerships 2005

All photos © English Partnerships 2005

All photos © English Partnerships 2005

Down Your Way

With all the changes that will be happening in our area over the coming years we need to record a picture of what the area looks like before any more changes, for the benefit of future generations (as well as our own short-term memory losses).

What do you think could be captured in a photograph to show what is unique about your neighbourhood?

What picture demonstrates our heritage and should be respected and never be forgotten?
Would you like to record your favourite place for posterity?

We want to receive as many pictures of the neighbourhood as you can send. – if you need to borrow a camera to snap that perfect image, get in touch with Laurence at Aspire Housing. 

We would like to have published your local picture in a future issue of our newsletter “New Beginnings” and a £10.00 gift voucher will be given for the published snapshot in each edition.  Send them in at any time of the year and all entries will be displayed on this website. 

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The Victorian Schoolhouse, High Street, Knutton,
taken by David Taylor in 2007 featured in May 2007 Newsletter

In  1874,  schooling  in  Knutton  reached  a  whole  new  level  with  the  opening  of  the  Knutton  National  School on the High Street.  Comprising  of  two  large  classrooms  and  a  headmasters  house, at the time the  new  building  cost  £2,000  and  covered  an  area  of  2,400  square  yards.

In 1937 a one Jonathon Taylor took over the tenancy of the schoolhouse bringing with him his large family, whose number included Ron Taylor whose son David Taylor has now lived at the Schoolhouse for 36 years.  David has submitted to the NMP in the Spring of 2007 a recent photograph of the schoolhouse, stating that “it  has  been  at  the  centre  of  my  families  life for  three generations  and , hopefully, will  be  here  for generations  to  come.”

Silverdale 1963
found by Peter Cotton in 2007 featured in December 2007 Newsletter

Peter Cotton found this picture of “down his way” hanging up on the wall of a barber’s shop in Chesterton.  The caption for this black and white landscape is “Silverdale 1963” and it is interesting for Peter as it shows what changes happen to an area in a relatively short period of time.  He highlights:-

1. Right at the top, Cotswold Estate can be seen.
2. To the top left, Blackbank Road running out of Knutton Village. 
3. The white pre-fab houses to the middle right of the picture have now gone to make room for the “new” Acacia Road estate.
4. To the centre left, the white cinema building of the old miner hostel, which is the exact location of the site of Peter’s bungalow in Malham Road.
5. To the left a different look Oak Road
6. At the centre, brickworks now the location for an industrial estate.
7. Bottom right the mineral line (now cycle track).
8. At the bottom of the picture is Rosemary Cottages/ Corner Pins (previously a water mill), the current location of Garners Garden Centre.