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Todmorden Fire Brigade, at Mytholmroyd - ALC00600
Taken at Pall Mall, now a car park. Watson's mill on the left, now Russell Dean's furniture shop. Postcard.
Gauxholme Bridge - ALC00601
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.
Gauxholme Bridge - ALC00602
Postcard. The cast iron Gauxholme Bridge over the Rochdale Canal was built by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and was described at the time as "a costly and beautiful structure possessing a most graceful appearance". Postcard.
Open Top Bus, Todmorden - ALC00603
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…
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…
Trams in Hebden Bridge - ALC00604
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 at Fallingroyd - ALC00605
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 - ALC00606
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.
Walshaw Reservoir Engine - ALC00607
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…
Horse Drawn Steam Power - ALC00608
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 and cart - ALC00609
A pair of horses hauling a heavily laden cart .
Horse drawn charabanc. - ALC00610
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…
Doctor on his rounds, Hebden Bridge - ALC00611
Believed to be Dr Davidson, in a horse drawn four wheeled carriage for one person, possibly a Stanhope or Spider Phaeton, on Burnley Road Hebden Bridge. Note the tramlines.
Covered Wagon - ALC00612
Covered four wheeled carriers wagon drawn by a pair of horses.
Coal dray - ALC00613
Coal dray outside Riverside School Hebden Bridge. The horse in full working dress! Postcard.
Dray Horse - ALC00614
Postcard. Coal dray horse outside Riverside School Hebden Bridge in full working dress. Postcard.
Heptonstall - ALC00615
Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall c1910
Charlestown Rail Disaster - ALC00616
21 June 1912. 'The Manchester to Leeds express literally burst the rails asunder' on the already notorious Charlestown Curve between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden killing four people. Postcard.
Charlestown Rail Disaster - ALC00617
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
Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge. - ALC00619
West side of Hebble End Bridge over the Rochdale Canal before the bridge was widened in 1963.
Fallingroyd - ALC00620
c.1910. Barge on the Rochdale Canal at Fallingroyd between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd.
Horse Drawn Wagonette - ALC00621
A typical horse drawn wagonette with two lengthwise seats facing one another behind the driver's cross seat.
Oxenhope Charabanc Disaster - ALC00622
30th October 1920. An outing of 37 people from the Robin Hood Inn at Pecket Well to Keighley ended in disaster when their charabanc overturned on a bend coming down from Cock Hill to Oxenhope. Five people were killed and four seriously injured. The…
Hole in the Wall, Hebden Bridge - ALC00625
The old Hole in the Wall pub demolished and replaced in the 1890s.