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Post by spiderman on Jan 2, 2014 11:19:42 GMT
When I was a child living up Glen Lee Lane ( T' Hog Oils ) we used to walk down the winding dirt road passing Chester Wood ,and on down to Spring Bank.
Alongside this dirt road was a walled pathway that was always known as the Cat Steps. From memory this was in a state of disrepair at that time.
Does anyone have any memories of this unmade road and pathway?
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Post by barcroftlad on Jan 2, 2014 23:35:59 GMT
Cat Steps must have been a fairly popular name in those days. We had Cat Steps running down from Hebden Road to the streets on Browside. We used to go that way to the Bronte Pictures(New uns) and also the cubs and scouts. Cheers.
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Post by barcrofter on Jan 3, 2014 10:27:44 GMT
And the cat steps from Spring Street to Halifax Road at Cross Roads, you must remember these Bill.
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Post by barcroftlad on Jan 3, 2014 20:04:41 GMT
Of course! How could I ever forget them? I have been up and down them a 1000 times it seems. Cheers Paul.  |
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Post by sean1981 on Jan 20, 2014 22:40:08 GMT
Yes, Bill. The way down from Hebden Road to Browside - Haworth was also known as 'cat'ill.
There was an old slaughterhouse half way down and some allotments, pig styes etc just along there (opposite direction to the 'New 'uns' I remember it well.
John
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Post by joycen on Feb 3, 2014 18:15:44 GMT
There are also "Cat Steps" going from Guardhouse to Fell Lane and I have heard of them in other places. I wonder where the name comes from? Any idea's?
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Post by harrier on Feb 3, 2014 19:09:15 GMT
Presumably Joycen means the ones which run from the tube mill to North Dene Road? ..... and a little further down the vally there is Donkey Hill which runs from Fell Lane to the cobbles down where the Post Office is.
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Post by barcroftlad on Feb 3, 2014 19:39:17 GMT
There is also the "Donkey Hill" running down from the bottom of Alpha Street to Pitt Street, at Parkwood. Maybe they were considered to be so steep when constructed, that only donkeys would be able to navigate them? Cheers.
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Post by joycen on Feb 3, 2014 23:02:19 GMT
Yes harrier- those are the ones I mean. I'd forgotten about the "Donkey Hill". I understood, as a kid, that this was because the path was like the hind leg of a donkey but not sure where this info came from. The hillside collapsed into the beck one very wet night in the 1980's, after the YOPS had spent ages tidying it up and taking out all the roots thaat held it together. This was much to the disgust of SB&F's Mrs Smith who had just had the beck wall refurbished and the landslide promptly knocked it down again!!!
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