Looking into the yard at the back of the White Lion Hotel. They even had their own petrol pump. Behind the big house at the bottom of Birchcliffe Road can be seen the parish church of St John with Stubbing School to the right of it.
Viewed from West End Bridge, Old Gate is to the left, the chimney of Bridge Mill is in the centre of the picture. The bridge was scheduled as an ancient monument in 1932
Holme House Mill, Booth, where water power was in use until 1941. The mill had been owned by the Ogden family since 1769: after it was dismantled it is believed the waterwheel was moved to Shibden Hall, Halifax.
A horse drawn barge passing under the cast iron bow string bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Gauxholme near Todmorden with castellated twin Gothic tower abutments. The reinforcement beneath the deck was added in about 1905 to strengthen it.
Outside the White Lion & Greyhound, Shade.
An early open top bus with external stairs at the rear to the upper deck and solid rubber tyres. Open top buses were not popular in winter and started to be replaced by covered top deck models from the…
Two open top Halifax Corporation trams on New Road, Hebden Bridge. The Corporation's tramway was extended to Hebden Bridge in 1901 to a terminus on New Road near the junction with Crown Street. This necessitated the Corporation installing electricity…
Tram on Fallingroyd Bridge half way between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. The 'S' shaped bridge was an infamous black spot before it was re-aligned and the sign reads DEATH TRAP
Holme Station, Cliviger on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. On 27th October 1907 some wagons on a coal train became detached at Copy Pit and rolled back down and leaving the track demolished the Booking Office killing the Booking Clerk.
ESAU was one of 15 Bagnall locos used on the works line during construction of Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. On the footplate is Enoch Tempest the construction contractor and next to him,sitting on the coal, his nephew or grandson George Tempest. On the…
A team of at least eleven horses hauling up past Lee Wood one of the 15 Bagnall locos used on the construction of Halifax Corporation's Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This usually happened on a Saturday afternoon when the heavy cart horses belonging to…
Horse-drawn charabanc by the Lodge at Midgehole at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags. As seen here they were usually pulled by a four-in-hand team of horses. They could carry a large number of passengers this one has over twenty. Introduced from…
Clearing the wreckage following the rail disaster on 21 June 1912 on the notorious Charlestown Curve between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden in which four people died. For further information: http://www.hebdenbridgehistory.org.uk/charlestown/events.html