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Heptonstall Methodist Sunday School trip

The front room at New Greenwood Lee farm, Widdop Road, Heptonstall. The property was sold in 2017 and the enamel Yorkshire range was then still in place but not the surround. note the creel above the range.

Pictured is Eileen Longbottom's dad.

The lettering is UBIQUE - QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCANT - Everywhere Where Right and Glory Lead.

Scenes from the Bible, organised by Mothers of Salem, the ladies of the church. Information provided by Helen Ranton, nee Waterworth, who is the little girl in the centre of the front row. Also included are Doris Horner, Philip and Gwen Shackleton,…

This Post Card, one in the Valentine's Series, is quite a well known photo. In the 1950's local teenagers would gather to swim in the Green Lady pool which formed around the remains of the stone foundations used to support the structure (which was…

Kathy Townsend has commented - this looks like the bridge on the way to Upper Wood Cottage Hardcastle Craggs. From Gibson Mill carry on up the track towards Blakedean, when the tracks split bear left and this takes you down a gradual slope to this…

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB OM GCVO SGM (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Egyptian war and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of…

This snapshot might indicate this crew were working later in the decade as the format in the early 1900's would have been Post Card.

Sowerby Bridge Industrial Society Co-op Hall, Carlton Street, Sowerby Bridge

The arch, at the junction of New Road and Bridge Gate, was lit by gas on one side and on the side shown here by electricity. It was placed there to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, 22nd June 1911. Holme House can be seen…