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Stocks Bank looking towards Bank Street around 1910.
To the rear of the terrace houses was Bank Quarry, one of three quarries in Battyeford. The good quality sandstone that was quarried there was
used in many of Mirfield's buildings. A small section of the quarry, just off Francis Street, was at one time considered a public quarry and people would remove stone for free when needed. Before the building of
Battyeford "Prims" (Primitive Methodists Chapel) in 1863 the congregation met in the cottages further up Stocks Bank Road opposite The Airedale Heifer.
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