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Middle Bank & Valve House, Walshaw Dean Reservoir - EIL00126
The reservoir was officially opened in October 1907.
Train with three of the crew. - EIL00124
The steep hillside behind this engine might help determine where it is, but it is believed to be an engine used in the building of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. The hut behind the engine might indicate a stopping point of some sort.
Train with cargo. - EIL00123
This train appears to be at a passing point on the track. The fields in the background might be useful in determining the location. The two men working the engine are possibly also represented in photo 21PC, although the engine doesn't appear to be…
Close up of another crew in train cabin. - EIL00122
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.
Crew and visitors on train (Baldersdale) en route from Dawson City - EIL00119
On 5th September 1905, this engine was involved in a tragic accident at Walshaw Dean where the stoker, James Taylor was scalded by steam from the boiler and later died. The engine, driven by John Leech had left the rails and fallen on its side whilst…
Blake Dean Trestle Bridge - EIL00118
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…
Walshaw Middle Dam - EIL00117
This Post Card is printed by C Westerman of Hebden Bridge. The reservoir bank in the middle ground is the middle bank at Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. Walshaw Dean Lodge can be seen to the left of the picture partly hidden by smoke from the engine which…
Hebden Bridge Station - ALC09004
At the bottom centre of the photo is an open top tram which ran from Halifax to Hebden Bridge. The road going into the picture leads to the station. Note of large warehouse on the right hand side of the photograph. The houses across the top of the…
Aerial View of Hebden Bridge, 1950 - ALC06005
The railway line runs diagonally across the picture, with Fairfield on the left and Calder Holmes Park on the right.
Todmorden Town Centre - ALC05151
North Street, Todmorden, around 1920 before properties including the tall building near the viaduct – housing a sweet shop, butcher’s, pie and pea café and a hairdressers – and the Black Swan, left, disappeared under a road widening scheme in the…
Drawing of Todmorden - ALC05149
The town is looking very elegant. St Mary's church is left of centre, with Cross Stone church on the skyline.
View over Hebden Bridge Station - ALC04554
Postcard addressed to Miss Eliza Stott, postmarked October 15 1908, with the message 'Many happy returns of your birthday, with love'.
F & H Sutcliffe Mill and offices is centre right of picture, with the awning to the railway platform to the…
F & H Sutcliffe Mill and offices is centre right of picture, with the awning to the railway platform to the…
Lloyd Greenwood at Hebden Bridge Station - ALC04492
Lloyd Greenwood was born at Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. In 1938, he won a place at the Halifax Junior Technical School, now Calderdale College, and went on to become a clerk with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
He started work at the…
He started work at the…
Goods Train at Thistle Bottom, Hebden Bridge - ALC04491
The railway track has been straightened, but the line of the infamous Charlestown curve can clearly be seen. Oakville Road is on the right.
Luddenden Foot Station - ALC04450
Date unknown. On the bottom right is a section of the footbridge between the two platforms and above it the small Booking Office. On the left is the entrance to the goods and coal yards.
Mytholmroyd - General View. - ALC01015
PNH00860. View across the town from the north hillside. Date unknown but before Caldene Avenue was built.
Blake Dean Trestle Bridge - ALC00991
The rail or tramway was used for the transportation of men and equipment from the base camp at White Hill Nook to the construction site of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs.
Trains on trestle bridge at Blake Dean - ALC00990
The rail or tramway was used for the transportation of men and equipment from the base camp at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall, to the construction site of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs in the early 1900s.