Upper Gorple reservoir from the middle looking North. Lower Gorple is to the right. You can see the bottom of the Blondin tower on the centre line and only Upper reservoir had one.
Under the arch you can just make out the chimney of Land Mill. Photo probably dates from about 1920 as the stonework was repointed in, or around, 1928.
The man in the photo is the Landlord. His name is Lummas Lumb. Former Landlord of Royal Oak, Mytholmroyd. Great-Grandfather of Max Sunderland. The lady may be Lummas's daughter, Ethel ,who would have been living there too.
View of the central railway triangle in the late 1920s viewed from Hallroyd Bridge, with the triangle filled in and used as a marshalling area. The tracks to the right the 1862 fork to Stansfield Hall Junction and to Burnley whilst those on the left…