The Causeway

Last Updated: 27/04/2018

The Causeway is the road leading uphill from Brook Street to Elsworth church before turning right and becoming Church Lane, formerly known as Workhouse Lane. In the past the Causeway contained cottages, a pub called the Dolphin, a farmyard, the Rectory Home Farm, a school (the cookery schoolroom), a bakery (run by the Richardson family) and until recently the village post office. In the 1960s and 1970s the Rectory Home Farm and farmyard were demolished and redeveloped as housing, as was the bakery and attached house. The post office was also attached to the house and that building was also demolished, with the post office being transferred to a surviving outbuilding where it continued to operate until 2009 when it closed. A house was also built on the site in the 1970s and in 2014 the old post office building was demolished and a new house built on the site.

View from the bottom of the Causeway in the early 20th century showing the Dolphin Inn on the left and the bakery on the right.	View up the Causeway 1925-1930 from above the Dolphin Inn showing cottages and Rectory Home Farm on the right and the bakery on the left. The single storey building attached to the house later became the post office.	A view from midway up the Causeway towards the church between the early 1920s and 1939. The war memorial which was installed in 1921 is visible but there are no electricity cables.	The top of the Causeway and the church in the 1950s. The old school fence can be seen as well as the Rectory Home Farm fence on the left, before the bungalows were built.	Picture of pupils from the school lines up across the bottom of the Causeway between the school and the Dolphin. The Three Horseshoes pub is visible across Brook Street. There is an oil lamp in the middle as well; there is still a street light in this position today. A telegraph pole is also visible serving the post and telegraph office further down Brook Street.
Picture of pupils in the grounds of the schoolhouse with the bakery buildings visible behind them.	View from the schoolyard across the Causeway showing the front of the Dolphin Inn. Brook Street is visible in the background showing the Three Horseshoes pub (now Horseshoe Cottage) across from the Dolphin.	View from the top of the Causeway in the 1920s showing Rectory cottage and the Manual Instruction Room on the left and Rectory Home Farm on the right. The Manual Instruction Room was an extension to the school at the bottom of the Causeway for teaching handicraft and cookery.	The view from the corner of Church Lane and the Causeway showing the bakery and old farmyard. The bakery and farmyard were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s.	View down the Causeway from halfway down. The shop attached to the bakery can be seen on the left. The cottages on the right have corrugated iron roofing suggesting this is around the 1930s.
A small thatched outbuilding belonging to the former rectory by the churchyard gates in the 1990s.	The view down the Causeway from the corner of Church Lane in 1988.	View down the Causeway in 1986. The old Manual Instruction Room has been replaced by a bungalow, the Rectory Home farm frontage is now a pair of bungalows and the barn half way up the Causeway on the right has been replaced by a house.	View from Church Lane corner in the 1990s.	View from the top of the Causeway 2014. It has changed little since 1988.
The bungalow built on the site of the former cookery schoolroom at the top of the Causeway. The old schoolroom was demolished in the 1960s.	Numbers 9 and 11 The Causeway, built on the site of the Rectory Home Farm in the early 1960s. This was start of a a wave of developments in the 1960s and 1970s.	Number 6 The Causeway in the 1990s. The house way built on part of the site of the old bakery on the Causeway, with on of the old outbuildings being used as the post office.	Number 7 The Causeway in the 1990s. The house built on the site of an old farmyard.
The post office building formerly an outbuilding to the bakery. The post office closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2014 and a new house built on the site.	Roy Lambert in front of the post office before it closed. It was being run by someone else at that time, and had been renamed B & A News.	The post office after it closed. It has since been demolished and a house built on the plot.	This was formerly three cottages but has been merged into a single cottage and stands opposite the site of the old bakery, now demolished. This view dates from the 1990s.	View from the bottom of the Causeway in the 1990s.
A view of a house that was formerly the Dolphin beer house and also at one time a coalyard at the bottom of the Causeway in the 1990s.	A view of The Plough showing the side of the building seen from the Causeway in the 1990s.	The view up the Causeway from opposite the post office in the 1990s.
View up the Causeway between 1979 and 1981. The Dolphin Inn has long been a private house, as has the school (closed 1947). The bakery has been demolished and replaced with a house in the 1970s. The single storey building visible on the right is a bakery outbuilding which became the village post office for many years.	A view of the Causeway from Brook Street in the 1990s. Little has changed since the 1979/1981 view except the entrance to the old schoolhouse on the corner has been moved.	View of the Causeway from Brook Street in the 1990s.	View of the Causeway towards the church from Brook Street in 2014. Little has changed from the 1990s view.

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