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The Boys’School

Note the belfry and large windows which were a particular feature of schools in this area. Its last use was that of a motor parts shop. The it was converted into Tomlinson’s Café and Bunk house, today i’s a private house .
The school was originally built in 1841 for boys whilst the girl’s school was just a few yards up the Toll Road at Hurley Knowes. Sometimes known as the Masonic hall, it has been converted to holiday cottages. If you follow the trail to the end you will return past the girls’ school.
A quiet street today; who would have thought that Bridge street was once such a commercial area! Grocer and Drapers, Booksellers and Stationers, Game and Poultry Dealers, and Ironmongers, all plied their trade. There was even a Temperance Hotel, and at the southern most end of the bridge a Monumental Masons.
Although businesses have changed or disappeared Bridge Street looks as it always did: apart from the ubiquitous yellow lines.

From the Bridge turn left up Haw Hill towards. All Saints Parish Church