Wood Lane Hall is a Grade 1 listed building and was built in 1649 by John Dearden a yeoman clothier. The original timber framed house was encased in stone and enlarged, with the addition of a two storey porch which had an "apple and pear" window…
Unmounted print. Grade I listed building built around 1640 for the Brookes family. The impressive window above the porch is known as a "wheel window". PH RCC - 11
The large and magnificent Barkisland Hall, built by John Gledhill in 1638, loudly proclaims the middling gentry status of its builder, John Gledhill. Unique within the district in being three storeys high, it has a fully developed F-plan with a…
Members of Hebden Bridge Local History Society are about to raise the sunken stone. 26th May 1956. L-R. Frank Horsfall, William Greenwood, Keith Newbitt, Peter Greenwood, Edward Watson, Mr Moses, Bod Gledhill and Harry Lord.
Turvin Mill was built in 1808. By 1833 it had a 10 HP water wheel and employed 57 workers (of which 31 were children). The water in the brook was supplemented by a catchwater drain half a mile long which collected the overflow from Whiteholm…
Victoria Mill was built by the Cragg Vale Manufacturing Co., a co-operative, in 1861, but went into liquidation by 1864 due to the 'Cotton Famine' and was sold to Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe and Sons Ltd There were two 30HP engines and a 40HP water…