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Whitely Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge - HLS00283
Tinted lithograph of Whitely Arches by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway' published in 1845. The valley is so narrow at this point with the river, canal and turnpike all squeezed into the valley bottom that with the…
Whitely Arches Manchester and Leeds Railway, over Halifax Road, Hebden Bridge - CBC00840
Grade II
Viaduct 1840, by George Stephenson. Pitch faced stone retaining walls. 3 segmental skewed arches, the heads of the voussoirs aligned to the courses. Roll moulded band in ashlar. Rough dressed parapet. To either side, wide square…
Viaduct 1840, by George Stephenson. Pitch faced stone retaining walls. 3 segmental skewed arches, the heads of the voussoirs aligned to the courses. Roll moulded band in ashlar. Rough dressed parapet. To either side, wide square…
Whiteley Arches, Hebden Bridge – CSS00184
Bridges carry the railway over first the road and then the canal.
Whiteley Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge. - KEC00173
West of Hebden Bridge on the Todmorden road the viaduct was built in 1839/40 on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. An early example of skew arches. The bridge was originally bow string but was replaced about 1940 as a matter of neccesity by the metal…
Whiteley Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge - KEC00174
West of Hebden Bridge on the Todmorden road the viaduct was built in 1839/40 on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. An early example of skew arches. The bridge was originally bow string but was replaced about 1940 as a matter of neccesity by the metal…
Whiteley Arches Area of Hebden Bridge - KEC00175
In the bottom the Manchester & Leeds Railway which has just crossed Whiteley Arches. Above Oakville Road coming down to King Street. Savile bowling green can be seen at the top of the picture. Just below the centre is the electricity sub-station.…
Whiteley Arches (2) including Heptonstall Church - ALC08276
see ALC08275 for version 1
Whiteley Arches - WED00152
Road and railway fighting for space in the valley bottom.
Whiteley Arches - WED00140
The A646 and the Caldervale Railway line taken from high above the (unseen) arches. The river can just be seen to the left of the of the road.
Whiteley Arches - PNH00767
Replacing the original 1840 bowstring, or trussed frame, bridge over the Rochdale Canal with the metal trough bridge we see today. To the right the tall chimney of the former Calderside Mill.
Whiteley Arches - ALC00423
1933. The bowstring bridge over the Rochdale Canal; when built in 1840 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway it was one of the first such in the country. It was replaced in 1939 with the metal trough bridge we see today. To the left Canalside Mill…
