Parkgate Photographs
Rawmarsh Carnegie Library
The Library, although it is called Rawmarsh Library is actually situated on Rawmarsh Hill at Parkgate. It was built in 1905 with funds received from the Carnegie Foundation.
Some of Parkgate's Public Houses
The Station on Alwarke Lane is now a lost lonely little pub stuck all by itself. You can guess from its name that it was once close to one of the three railway stations that served Parkgate. Now there are none. It is shown on my Ordnance Survey map of 1893 but not that of 1851.
There was an inn called the Travellers shown on the 1851 Ordnance Survey in exactly the same position. I don't think that the present building is the original. In 2011 it is closed, boarded-up and for sale,
Westfield Road
The pumping station was built in the 1820s to pump water out of the mines at Parkgate. The old boiler house next door is part of the Westfield Craft Warehouses. The old cottages are now private homes but which I believe was the old smithy for the pit.
The Rochester, Greasbrough Road, Parkgate
This is a restaurant but many years ago the then owners told me that it had been an old schoolhouse. It is shown as Parkgate Girls' School on earlier Ordnance Survey maps. The restaurant is now Enzos Italian.
St Andrew's Mission
This is now a workshop making plaster mouldings.
Bank House, Parkgate
There used to be three or four banks in Parkgate: now there is one. I can't remember which bank this one was but it is a rather nice old building, now bedsits.
