In December 1984 a train of petrol tankers derailed in the tunnel resulting in a fierce fire with flames rising out of the shafts visible for miles around high over the hillsides and the fire continued burning for several days. Remarkably there was…
Photo taken c1985. In 2011 a stonemason began work on 10 tenter posts in Marsden.
The Grade II listed structures at Crowther Bruce Mill Road had been left to deteriorate for many years. Most tenter posts were made of wood and have long since…
Taken from Edge Lane beyond Highgate. The farm on the far left of the photo is Higher Strines Farm and beyond that is the stream, Strines Clough. The dip in the foreground is the lane leading down past Broadstone towards Hudson Fold and eventually…
Adamroyd chimney on Blind Lane was demolished in the summer of 1980.
As a result of the mill closures, some families left the area, causing a drop in population. House building schemes had been left in abeyance during the war. Now the government…
Lloyd Greenwood was born at Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. In 1938, he won a place at the Halifax Junior Technical School, now Calderdale College, and went on to become a clerk with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
He started work at the…