The two doctors practiced there until they moved into the premises we visited previously off Ogden Lane around 1966. In 1802 the brothers Thomas and Joseph Fryer, local Quaker woollen manufacturers, owned a dye-house on Rosemary Park off Rastrick Common. It was kept from being no.1 by the Paul McCartney & Wings massive hit, Mull of Kintyre. Building at the school commenced in late 1973 under the authorisation of the old West Riding County Council but by the time the work was completed in 1975, Calderdale MBC had been created and had taken control of education in this area. The idea was that the teachers educated the children up to a certain age at which point the older, more clever pupils became monitors who passed on their knowledge to younger children. Joseph Barber was a local solicitor with five sons. Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! It has done well to outlive all the other opposition. Plans were passed several years ago for new housing on the site but nothing has happened to date and it continues to be an eyesore. So far as the condition of the premises is concerned, this, at present, is the most unsatisfactory building owned by the Society. Above, I have shown two very old photographs in relation to Rastrick Common School. In 1675, the Rev. In 1933 and 1938, further classrooms, cloakrooms, indoor sanitation for boys and girls and a staff room were added as the school re-organised to become a Senior Mixed School. The road also led to two temporary classrooms for the grammar school which were known as the Stephenson’s Buildings. It was abolished as a distinct parish on 1 April 1937 and merged with the neighbouring parish of Brighouse as part of the Borough of Brighouse. Other owners or tenants included his nephew Joseph and John William Clay. She used to sell pears from her orchard but one person has suggested that it was worth walking a little further to Howson’s section of the orchard because their pears were always softer ! Towards the end of their lives Mr and Mrs Clay lived in Jersey where Mabel died in 1955 and Hugh died in 1957. Consumers loved it and at it’s height, the company was processing 20 tons of mint in one shift. The houses to the right are on Castlefields Drive with Rosemary Mill in the centre and the cliffs below Healy Wood behind. Leslie was a joiner and undertaker but the business was founded by his father, Wilfred around 1909. The housing never happened and the school building was re-sold and opened as a private Preparatory and Nursery School in 1994. The horse ran down to the bottom of the hill almost knocking several other people down before making its way home to its stables on Bowling Alley where it was brought under control. The Anglican Church of St. Matthews was joined by the Methodists from Crowtrees in 1969 when Crowtrees Chapel was declared unsafe after dry rot was found in the roof timbers and had to be demolished. Similarly, Henry de la Croix is known to have died in 1314 when his son Peter paid taxes upon the death of his father and then sold five acres of land to William de Rastrick.