Below is the 'Old School'. It was originally a 2 roomed single storey cottage built in 1669 by Anthony Ward. His daughter inherited it, and it is presumed to have been bought by the village for a schoolhouse around the turn of the 17th century. It seems to have fulfilled this requirement up until 1805, when the council added another storey. In 1827 the bottom west end room was made into the village gaol. The upper room became the girls school, and then the infants until it finally closed at the end of the19th century. The lower rooms have had a number of uses; jail, cottages for the poor; barber shop, Conservative club. The lower floor is now the village Library, and the upper floor is the Parish Room.

(Below) Looking up Main Street going over the Town Beck bridge (see wall bottom left corner). It used to be a difficult ford until it was bridged, this was washed away in the flood of 1687, a more substantial one was built as it is today. Today underneath the bridge on the left hand side there is a swim of brown trout that have become the unofficial village pets.  A couple of them are a good size, but woe betide anyone who tries to catch them.

The annual gala procession passing the Swan in 1997(left) and again 100 years ago (below).

(left) This is the Piece Hall, built by John Cockshott in the early 19th century. the 'piece' hall was the place where independent weavers could sell the cloth and buy yarn. In Halifax there is an outstanding 'Piece Hall' covering 2.5 acres representing the centre of the pre industrial West Yorkshire textile trade. Cockshott's hall has been an emporium, butchers. Now it is a house.