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Burton Agnes Hall, Entrance Porch - HLS05711
Slide 6 - The Entrance Porch with its Ionic and Corinthian columns and its achievements of arms, bespeaks the care and skill of some master architect.
The Hall was built by Sir Henry Griffiths, whose initials appear over the porch door together with…
The Hall was built by Sir Henry Griffiths, whose initials appear over the porch door together with…
Burton Agnes Hall, The Gate House - HLS05710
Slide 5 - The picturesque Gate House to the mansion consists of the embattled edifice with four octagonal towers finished with lead domes at each angle. The centre has an arched entrance and above it are the Royal arms of James I, and the date 1610.
Burton Agnes Hall, Wooden Wheel for Pumping Water - HLS05709
Slide 4 - In the outbuilding facing the Kitchen Court is an interesting relic of bygone days - an old wheel some fourteen feet in diameter, made of wood, and formally used for pumping water, by man-power, from a draw well.
As will be noticed, the…
As will be noticed, the…
Burton Agnes Hall, Twelfth Century Crypt Adjoining Hall - HLS05708
Slide 3 - The earliest remains of domestic architecture here are in a building immediately to the west of the Hall, the basement of which is vaulted on cylindrical piers, with volute Capitals, of the Transitional Period (about C. 1170), and is…
Burton Agnes Hall, South Front from Cross Path - HLS05707
Slide 2 - Burton Agnes came to the Boyntons through the marriage of Sir Matthew Boynton of Barmston with the daughter of Sir Henry Griffiths of Burton Agnes.
Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, son and successor of Sir Matthew Boynton succeeded to…
Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, son and successor of Sir Matthew Boynton succeeded to…
Burton Agnes Hall, the South Front - HLS05706
Slide 1 - Burton Agnes, the ancient seat of the Boyntons, is one of the most beautiful Tudor and Jacobean houses in Yorkshire.
Lying in pleasant country between Driffield and Bridlington, it is surrounded by woodland and standing upon a slight…
Lying in pleasant country between Driffield and Bridlington, it is surrounded by woodland and standing upon a slight…
Barkisland Hall, the Entrance Porch - HLS05703
Slide 2 - Barkisland Hall belongs to the style of architecture fashionable in the days of the unfortunate Charles, and is a fine example of the period. It is a three storied, three gabled building, and consisted originally of a centre 'House Body',…
Barkisland Hall - HLS05702
Slide 1 - This Hall stands about midway between the villages of Ripponden and Stainland and is unique in the Parish of Halifax, in that it has three floors, and its porch is carried up to the height of the building.
Historic Homes of Yorkshire
The opening lantern slide used by George Hepworth when he gave his lecture on the Historic Homes of Yorkshire to the Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society in 1916.
Hudson Mill in the Colden Valley - HLS05223
Hebble Hole bridge is in the foreground.
Hebden Bridge - Hawden Hall pre-First World War. - HLS05202
HLS05202. Originally Hawden Hole it is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midge Hole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in…
Hebden Bridge - Hawden Hall pre-First World War - HLS05201
HLS05201. Originally Hawden Hole it is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midge Hole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in…
Hebden Bridge - Hawden Hall pre-First World War - HLS05200
Originally Hawden Hole, it is situated on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midge Hole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in February 1817.…
Hebden Bridge - Hawden Hall pre-First World War. - HLS05199
Originally Hawden Hole, it is situated on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midge Hole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in February 1817.…
Colden Clough - Bob Mill Ruins. - HLS05190
Bob Mill was a watered powered cotton spinning mill built in 1805 but probably production did not continue after 1809 and the mill subsequently fell into dilapidation. The adjoining house though seems to have been occupied up until the end of the…
Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, around 1930. - HLS05187
The Cloth Hall, built around 1545. is on the left, White Lion on right.
Heptonstall New Church. - HLS05154
The old medieval church was badly damaged by a gale in 1847 but rather than repairing it a decision was taken to build a new church in the same churchyard. Dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle this was completed in 1854 at a cost of
Heptonstall Graveyard. - HLS05151
The grave of Samuel Sutcliffe who was murdered at Hawden Hole in February 1817. His murderers were hanged at York the following month.
The building barely visible on the left was the Black Bull Inn.
The building barely visible on the left was the Black Bull Inn.
Heptonstall - The Old Grammar School. - HLS05150
The plaque above the doorway is dated 1642. The building now houses Heptonstall Museum operated by Calderdale Council.
Heptonstall - Archway Entrance to Churchyard Bottom. - HLS05149
HLS05149. Entrance from off Smithwell Lane.
Heptonstall - Towngate c.1895. - HLS05138
Looking up towards the Cross Inn. Taken from a lantern slide.
Heptonstall - Line of Cans on Smithwell Lane. - HLS05137
HLS05137. Heptonstall people relied on four pumps for their water supply. The pumps were locked on a Saturday night until Monday and residents put their cans or buckets out ready to fill when the water came back on.