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Ivy House, Midgehole Road, Hebden Bridge - ALC00995
The house has now been demolished and replaced with a modern house.
View of Hebden Bridge - ALC00984
Hope Baptist in centre foreground
Pecket Well - ALC00843
Postcard. 1960s.
View over Colden, Jack Bridge Mill - ALC00838
An early steam powered mill, built in 1861 by Colden Cotton & Commercial Company Limited, was the last to be built in the Colden Valley. It was demolished in the 1970s following a fire. Colden School can be seen left of centre. On the very left of…
Nutclough Mill - ALC00835
Pencil note on back of print says 16.3.25 . Also "In 1952 1/2 ??"
Birchcliffe - ALC00830
pencil notes on back "RGS in 2/1952 BS of plates Marked on base"
Grange Mill Chimney - ALC00819
Grange Mill chimney was a towering landmark in Mytholmroyd until 1898 when it was demolished in spectacular style.
A newspaper report at the time stated: "Crowds gathered in Mytholmroyd in 1897 to watch the fall of a giant. As it tumbled the…
A newspaper report at the time stated: "Crowds gathered in Mytholmroyd in 1897 to watch the fall of a giant. As it tumbled the…
River Hebden from West End Bridge, c1955 - ALC00810
In the centre the Old Bridge and Bridge Mill Chimney with Old Gate on the left. The buildings on the right fronted onto Bridge Gate but all have been demolished.
Mytholm - ALC00808
Mytholm Hall in the foreground, with St James church behind, and Eaves Mill behind that. Heptonstall church is on the sky-line
Lumb Mills, Colden Valley - ALC00806
Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)
Gibson Mill - ALC00804
Postcard. Addressed to Mrs Ada Helliwell, sent c/o address in Birkby, Huddersfield, by her husband Jim
Lee Mill, from Midgehole Road - ALC00800
Visitors to Hardcastle Crags walking past Lee Mill; demolished about 1970 but by then no longer used as acotton mill. Peckett Well War Memorial on the skyline. Postcard
Midgehole - ALC00798
Crimsworth Dean. Postcard. Addressed to Mrs F Eastwood, Ovenden sent to 'my dear mother' by Harold and Eve
Midgehole - ALC00794
View from White Hill Nook. Postcard produced by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse
Colden Valley Mills - ALC00793
Higher and Lower Lumb Mills, Lumb Bank in foreground
Jack Bridge Mill, in the Colden Valley - ALC00787
Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Birchcliffe and Foster Mill, c1880 - ALC00715
Foster Mill far left, Hangingroyd Mill in the centre and above that Nutclough Mill. Birchcliffe Road climbing up the undeveloped hillside with the first Birchcliffe Chapel and grave yard to its left.
Birchcliffe c1898 - ALC00689
View of Birchcliffe