Church Street
The first view is from about halfway down the hill, with the churchyard wall on the left and the green doors of Don Press/Woods Printers to the right. The far building houses HSBC Bank, Robinson's news and Dransfield's solicitors. Dransfield's is very well established and goes back well into the nineteenth century. To its right is Cockpit Lane, a short lane which leads to the former site of a cock fighting pit and an 'eighteen foot wide' access road to the printers and a row of houses. Just above the Don Press is Hacket's flower shop.
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Just off the picture to the right is the entrance to the community centre car park and leads us to the next picture, the National School, with its pointy double-glazed windows. I think that the local freemasons have used it from time to time. This building is now beginning to fall into disrepair with damaged windows and tiles. It is a gathering place for youths after dark.
The stone on the old school looks out to Church Street and reads 'Female National School - Endowed by Mr. Joseph Camm of Beverley A.D. MDCCCXXII' and that adds up like this - 1000(M) + 500(D) + 300(CCC) + 20(XX) + 2(II) = 1822
The last shot looks down this very old hill (the only one-way street in the area) on an autumnal evening, complete with fallen leaves from the churchyard. My spy says that someone tries to come up the hill about once a week and a few liberties are taken from Cockpit Lane. These houses have changed little over more than a century. The bottom end joins Shrewsbury Road, near Dolphin chip shop and Green Clean's.
