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Blake Dean - DTA00204
Blake Dean, a popular picnic spot, off Widdop Road between Hebden Bridge and Colne.
Graining Water and Alcomden Water - HLS01204
Featured in the Geoff Boswell Calendar of 2004.
Hebden Dale - Blake Dean Bridge - HLS05188
The underside of the bridge carrying Widdop Road over Graining Water. Historical OS maps call the whole area Black Dean.
Hebden Dale - Blake Dean Bridge. - HLS05189
The bridge carrying Widdop Road over Graining Water just before its confluence with Alcomden Water to form Hebden water. Historical OS maps refer to the area as Black Dean and today it is a famous local beauty spot and picnic site..
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean - ALC00812
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean, c1902 - ALC00842
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…
Blake Dean - ALC00844
Postcard. 1960s.
Trestle Bridge, Hebden Bridge - ALC01491
Postcard date stamped June 20 1905 sent to Mr J. Mr J. Mitchell in Whitworth from Lill.
Blake Dean Chapel and Cottages - ALC05163
Blake Dean Chapel stood at the head of the Hebden Valley . Near by Trestle Bridge was built to enable the reservoir at Walshaw Dean to be constructed.
This chapel was unique in that entrance to the gallery was down two steps and the entrance to the…
This chapel was unique in that entrance to the gallery was down two steps and the entrance to the…
Blake Dean Baptist Chapel - ALC05170
Built in 1820 and closed in March 1959. demolished in1971. It was an off-shoot of Slack Chapel.
Blake Dean Baptist Chapel. - ALC05171
Built in 1820 and closed in March 1959. demolished in1971. Off-shoot of Slack Chapel. Ref: 039a
Blake Dean Trestle Bridge - EIL00118
This Post Card, one in the Valentine's Series, is quite a well known photo. In the 1950's local teenagers would gather to swim in the Green Lady pool which formed around the remains of the stone foundations used to support the structure (which was…
Trestle Viaduct, Walshaw Dean. - KEC00190
"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…
Blake Dean, Near. Hebden Bridge. - WAO00212
Postcard with postmark July 1956. Shows Widdop Road coming down from Heptonstall Slack to the bridge over Alcomden Water.
Supports of the Trestle Bridge at Blakedean - DEF00108
These supports are all that remains of the bridge that carried the rail or tramway used for the transportation of men and equipment from the base camp at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall, to the construction site of the Washaw Dean Reservoirs.
Bridge at Blake Dean near Hebden Bridge - TWA00203
BLAKE DEAN BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge. Just downstream from the present structure there used to be a wooden trestle bridge erected when the three Walshaw Dean reservoirs were being constructed. It was 700 feet long and 105 feet high, and…
The Trestle Bridge at Blake Dean 1901 - RDA00120
"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…
Blake Dean and Chapel. - RDA00289
An offshoot of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Heptonstall Slack built in 1820 to serve the community at Alcomden. The Church closed in 1959 and was demolished in 1971. The nearby cottages were converted into a scout hostel.
Blake Dean - KST00607
Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne