Methley
However, the buildings on these streets largely date from the 20th century – and this area does not represent the original geographical centre of the village.Part of the village (the area south and west of the M62 motorway) was ceded to the City of Wakefield Metropolitan district council in the 1990s.An eighteenth century watercolour shows a great hall with a minstrels gallery and grand staircase, decorated and embossed ceiling with a full-length oriel window.Robert Waterton was the custodian of Richard II whilst constable of Pontefract Castle from 1399 and later gaoler of James I of Scotland.The Hall, which featured in a 1907 edition of Country Life, was demolished in 1964, although the Mexborough Estate are still significant landowners in the district.Nikolaus Pevsner documented the church and Methley Hall as part of his Buildings of England series in the late 1950s.[8] The Old Pinder Green school house is a Grade II listed building dating from 1637 at the junction of Watergate and the main Leeds to Pontefract Road.It featured the Madonna with child in a ruined city surrounded by desperate people appealing to God for protection from war.[citation needed] The composer Edward Elgar was friends with the former owner (Mr. Embleton) of 'The Cedars' – now a residential home – and often stayed in the village.[citation needed] Nick Hodgson, drummer of the Leeds band the Kaiser Chiefs, has family connections with the village.Other notable residents of the village have included Rugby league players Brian Lockwood, Dean Mountain, Daryl Powell, Ben Crooks, Kelvin Skerrett, Joe Arundel and footballer Paul Rickers.
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