Shackleton’s Fold, originally called Shackleton’s Yard, was a single ‘yard’ that ran from Whitehall Road at the north end to Wortley Lane at the south end, very close to the junction where these two roads met with Gelderd Road. It was housing for the labouring classes: two rows of ‘back-to-back’ housing facing one little street or alleyway, but unusually, although each house looked and felt like a back-to-back, with the one door and all windows only on one side of the building, and a plain brick fascia on the other side, there was no row of houses on that other side. Instead, on the eastern side was St John’s School, and on the western side there was a mill. ‘The Fold’ was included in the slum clearance programme of the 1930s and was demolished around 1937.
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