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Hi all im hoping someone can give me information on 2 Woodhouse square in the late 1950's it has some significance to my birth but can seem to find any details.would really appreciate the helpBest regards MazGD

Hi MazGD.There's loads of pictures of Woodhouse Square on Leodis. This one is of number 1, so, as it's a square, I'd guess that next door (just visible) is number 2.This is the Leodis caption:"February 1904. Front view of no.1 Woodhouse Sqaure. The house was the only house to be erected from the original 1827 plans. It was built by Samuel Green around 1828/9 on the south east corner of the sqaure. It was demolished in 1904 during the Chorley Lane improvements."Click on the image to enlarge it.    

This is a 1978 view (also from Leodis) of the square, taken from number 2 Claremont Avenue. The sunken flowerbed was previously an emergency static water tank, built during the last war.

MazGD wrote: Hi all im hoping someone can give me information on 2 Woodhouse square in the late 1950's it has some significance to my birth but can seem to find any details.would really appreciate the helpBest regards MazGD Hi Sithank you for the photos and info, I know that Nos 4-7 were bought by the Rountree family and turned into an adult education centre that later also incorporated no 2, but i have a mystery in my family about No 2 in 1957 i think it may have been an unwed mother and baby home? not sure but am really trying to find out who owned it at that time or who was living there.Thanks again for your reply

http://www.swarthmore.org.ukthis is the Adult Education centre. still flourishing

Woodhouse Square in 1908.the Swarthmore was made from the terrace at the bottom edge.

Si wrote: Hi MazGD.There's loads of pictures of Woodhouse Square on Leodis. This one is of number 1, so, as it's a square, I'd guess that next door (just visible) is number 2.This is the Leodis caption:"February 1904. Front view of no.1 Woodhouse Sqaure. The house was the only house to be erected from the original 1827 plans. It was built by Samuel Green around 1828/9 on the south east corner of the sqaure. It was demolished in 1904 during the Chorley Lane improvements."Click on the image to enlarge it.     I'm lost Si.No houses fronted onto the north of the square, chorley lane was east of the square, the georgian terrace that is Swarthmore is south of the square and there was a school west of the square.My 1847-63 Leeds map shows two houses on the SW corner.The picture shows two as well.So I can only assume the caption is wrong - two houses were built on the south WEST corner and as for the "chorley lane improvements" chorley lane was the other side of the square and remains as a narrow cobbled single carriageway.........

The Parksider wrote: Si wrote: Hi MazGD.There's loads of pictures of Woodhouse Square on Leodis. This one is of number 1, so, as it's a square, I'd guess that next door (just visible) is number 2.This is the Leodis caption:"February 1904. Front view of no.1 Woodhouse Sqaure. The house was the only house to be erected from the original 1827 plans. It was built by Samuel Green around 1828/9 on the south east corner of the sqaure. It was demolished in 1904 during the Chorley Lane improvements."Click on the image to enlarge it.     I'm lost Si.No houses fronted onto the north of the square, chorley lane was east of the square, the georgian terrace that is Swarthmore is south of the square and there was a school west of the square.My 1847-63 Leeds map shows two houses on the SW corner.The picture shows two as well.So I can only assume the caption is wrong - two houses were built on the south WEST corner and as for the "chorley lane improvements" chorley lane was the other side of the square and remains as a narrow cobbled single carriageway......... I think you're right, Parksider. It would make sense if the caption read, "South West corner." The slope seen in the photo would seem to confirm that it is the building shown on the 1847 map?

Hi, I lived with my family at number 2, Woodhouse Square between 1950-53, at that time the house consisted of a business office, my father worked for the manager and we had an apartment there in addition another family occupied an additional apartment. Please contact me as I'm interested to know your possible connections to the house.

lilypearl wrote: Hi, I lived with my family at number 2, Woodhouse Square between 1950-53, at that time the house consisted of a business office, my father worked for the manager and we had an apartment there in addition another family occupied an additional apartment. Please contact me as I'm interested to know your possible connections to the house. Hello I hadn't heard from anyone on the site for quite a while, so was surprised today to receive your message .My dad was a German POW released in about 1953 who stayed on in England. My mother left me a photo of this house with a cryptic message and have been trying to find out about it ever since. Please contact me at [email protected] and i will give you more info and perhaps you can do the same,