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Wainhouse Tower and Rocks Road, Halifax - DPC00190
Postcard dated August 1906.
Hall End, Halifax - DPC00184
Postcard dated April 1905
Victoria Hall, Halifax - DPC00168
Postcard dated September 1906.
Todmorden Town Centre - TAL00344
This is Todmorden town centre from Rochdale Road, Water Street is on the right. The 3 storey white building in the cetre is the first property on Burnley road opp the Town Hall. the dark line across the image above the houses is the railway viaduct.…
Todmorden - Burnley Road. - RDA00315
The poster for the Bridge Street Sunday School event dates this photo to 1905.
Holme Station Accident. - RDA00300
Holme Station Cliviger on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. On 27th October 1907 some wagons on a coal train became detached at Copy Pit and rolled back down and leaving the track demolished the Booking Office killing the Booking Clerk.
Hebden Bridge. - RDA00297
View over the town from Fairfield looking up Hebden Dale about 1900. Bottom centre St Thomas' Catholic Church and next to it Pallis House.
Heptonstall Slack and Chapel, c1900 - RDA00292
Mount Zion Baptist Church was built in 1808 by a breakaway group from Birchcliffe Chapel in Hebden Bridge but the present building dates from 1878.
Hebden Bridge from Wood Top. - RDA00287
View over the railway station to the town and Heptonstall hillside. Bottom right the municipal gas works at Crow Nest. The station wedged between the railway warehouse and Victoria Mill.
Todmorden Water Works. - RDA00274
Construction of filter beds at Gorpley Reservoir.
Gorpley Waterworks was finally opened in 1905. The work was completed by Benjamin Lumb, the local builder.
Gorpley Waterworks was finally opened in 1905. The work was completed by Benjamin Lumb, the local builder.
Todmorden Water Works Filter Beds. - RDA00273
Believed to be at Gorpley Reservoir.
Lob Mill, Todmorden. - RDA00258
Lob Mill east of the town with the chimney being felled on 29 September 1906 by which time the mill was disused Note the crowds standing on the railway viaduct to watch.
Walsden, Todmorden - RDA00101
A west bound goods train approaching Walsden Station. The station opened in 1845 and closed in 1961.
A new station with ‘bus stop’ style shelters was opened in 1990 but slightly to the east of the footbridge seen here to the right.
A new station with ‘bus stop’ style shelters was opened in 1990 but slightly to the east of the footbridge seen here to the right.
Demolition Jack Bridge Mill, between Heptonstall and Blackshawhead. - DEF00124
This mill was built as a steam powered mill in 1861 and was the last mill to be built in the Colden Valley.
Luddendenfoot Railway Station c.1900. - WAO00250
A permanent way ganger maintaining the track. A station opened at Luddendenfoot at the same time as the line in October 1840 although the buildings seen here are much later. The station was closed in 1962.
New Cragg Hall, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00223
Postcard with September 1906 postmark. Not to be confused with 'Old' Cragg Hall. The New Hall, or Lower Cragg Hall to distinguish it from Old Cragg Hall, was enlarged and embellished built around 1904 and was destroyed by fire in 1921 with a re-build…
General View of Hebden Bridge - WAO00217
Postcard with April 1905 postmark and the image is prior to the construction of the new Birchcliffe Chapel in 1897/8. The gable end of Palace House can just be seen on the left.
Mytholmroyd. - WAO00191
Townscape prior to construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908 but after the arrival of the trams in 1901. On the hillside is Scout Road School and along the bottom the Rochdale Canal.
Hebden Bridge. - WAO00187
Undated postcard. The image is probably early 20th century. Right of centre is Foster Mill and dam with Hebden Water below it. The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen on the hillside above town.
Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd, - WAO00183
Halifax Corporation trams reached Mytholmroyd in 1901 and were withdrawn in 1936.
Tythe Barn, Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge, c. 1909. - WAO00182
The gentleman with the horse is George William Thomas, son of James Farrar Thomas. The building on the right was the Tythe Barn. It became a pub and restaurant of that name, later changed to The Thirsty Turtle, now a private house. Behind it is…
Mytholmroyd General View. - WAO00178
Undated postcard but the image is prior to the construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908. Prominent left of centre is the Primitive Methodist Zion Chapel.
Railway at Mytholmroyd - WAO00175
Unknown locomotive heading from Mytholmroyd towards Hebden Bridge. The line had been increased to four tracks between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd in 1906 but reverted to two tracks in the 1980s.
Railway at Mytholmroyd - WAO00174
The York-Liverpool express double headed by Stanier Class 'Black 5' 44782 and 44987 passing through Mytholmroyd 30th September 1961. The line had been increased to four tracks between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd in 1906 but reverted to two tracks…