Very little detail is known about the origin or location of these photographs.

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Historical photos relating to Oxspring school, you can also read this booklet which gives a history from 1880 to 1980 or visit their website at http://oxspringprimary.co.uk/. 

Four Lane Ends is a local name give to the area around where Bower hill and the Huddersfield road (A629) intersect.

See The Mills of Oxspring page for details of some of these mills.

Oxspring garage was owned by the Wood family it closed on the 31st of March 2000 and is now the site of new homes aptly named Wood Cottages. Gordon's Garden was created in memory of the last proprietor Mr Gordon Wood on land purchased from the family by the Parish Council.

When the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway  was being built in the middle of the eighteenth century, the barn of the Waggon and Horses public house was used to house the navvies who built it. 

Oxspring Bridge over the river Don at Bower Hill is a grade II listed road bridge. Probably built in the eighteenth century and is of dressed stone construction. Single span segmental-arched bridge. Band forms base to coped parapet. To the right is a triangular abutment and to right of this is a small subsidiary arch probably of later date. The main bridge has splayed ends. Tarmac causeway.