Round House, Luddendenfoot
View of Round House, Stansfield Estate, Luddenden Foot, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Luddenden Foot
Format: Postcard - Colour
Document ID: 101033
Library ID: 324
Colour postcard of Round House, Luddenden Foot, West Yorkshire. The Round House was mentioned in the 1891 Census, when a farm labourer was recorded as living here. Oral tradition describes the house as home to a man with a donkey, being employed to bring in the cloth from the tenter-frames (stretching and drying frames) when the weather changed. There were tenter fields on either side of the Rochdale Canal in this area. It may have been part of the Stansfield Estate, the Hall and Lodge being nearby. [Is the Hall depicted top right of postcard?]
The Round House has since been demolished - date of demolition unknown. The foundations are still visible near the slip road to Tenterfields Business Park.
Photo undated but probably from about 1910.
