Winners of the Yorkshire Rugby Union Challenge Cup, Season 1899-1900. Inset, L to r: R.W. Collinson, D.G. Wheelwright. Standing: G.B. Whitaker (President), W.W. Cunliffe (Hon Treasurer), P. Carter, E.F. Fookes, H. Clark, W. Newell, C. Milnes, G.…
October 12th 1906. Originally called Delph Mill, it is on the site of what may well be the earliest fulling mill in Saddleworth. The building shown was seriously affected by fire in 1901 and 1906 when there were 150 employees. Presumably some…
Heptonstall Slack Baptist Chapel Choir c.1909, taken to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Choirmaster, William Greenwood, nickname William the Singer.
Bottom row from left: Sarah Pickles, unknown, Francis Greenwood who was killed in the First…
Pre First World War. Halifax Corporation tram number 73, came into service November 1902, photographed here at the terminus on New Road near the junction with Crown Street. Trams ran from Halifax to Hebden Bridge from 1901 to 1936. On the left is the…
Photograph of Cragg Hall, the grounds and mill employees, taken in 1907 after the Hall had been rebuilt and enlarged and the grounds laid out as shown.
Thanks to Sam Hellowell we are fortunate indeed to have nearly all 180 people named.
In 1813 they laid the foundation stone of a small church at Marshaw Bridge. The building was completed 1815. There was accommodation for 250, but it soon became inadequate and was in a state of disrepair.
1838 New church commenced.
1839 Church of St.…
The foundation stone of this Chapel was laid by John Wesley, and erected in 1764. The shape is octagonal. In the building of this chapel there appears to have been almost an element of romance; women as well as men, coming even from a distance and…
Postcard with pencil note on the reverse: ' July 8th 1908. Student's Association Ramble'. The image shows the old clapper bridge in Turvin Clough, Cragg Vale.
Postcard with January 1906 postmark. Cragg Post Office is on the left and further along Cragg Vale Co-operative store with the Working Men's Club next door to that.
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.
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.
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',…
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…