Visitors to Walshaw Dean Reservoir - JNB00505
Dawson City, Places, Steam engine
Taken, c 1906, during the constructionof the reservoirs.
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Dawson City, Heptonstall C1905 - RDA00113
Dawson City, Heptonstall, Places, Whitehill Nook
Dawson City was a hutted encampment which housed up to 600 navvies and engineers employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs and the Hardcastle Crags Railway. It was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The contractor for the works was Enoch Tempest, of Marple, Cheshire.
Named after the gold rush town in Alaska, the compound contained huts for living accommodation, a hospital, a mission house, and a lending library.
The shanty town and the railway were sold by auction on 22nd May 1912.
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Dawson City, Heptonstall - EIL00121
Children, Dawson City, Heptonstall, Places
Named after the town of Dawson City in The Yukon in Canada which experienced the Klondike Gold Rush towards the end of the 19th century, this place, above Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, was well established by the time of the 1901 census.
There were about 10 huts occupied by families and their boarders, and about 12 huts unoccupied or in the process of building. Most residents were navvies or engine drivers.
By the 1911 census there were only two resident families: William Seagrave Langford (family and boarders) and Thomas Stanger Boon, an engine driver, with his wife Mary Elizabeth. During the building of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs many navvies and other workers were housed in local farm buildings and cottages which had fallen out of use. Postcard.
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Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean, c1901 - ALC06351
Blake Dean, Blakedean, Dawson City, Places, Trestle Bridge
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Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04466
Dawson City, Places, Walshaw Dean Reservoir
The wooden 'city' was built to house the workmen and their families employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs, 1900 to 1912.
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Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04465
Dawson City, Places, Walshaw Dean Reservoir
Children from the encampment built to house the workmen and their families employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs, 1900 to 1912.
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Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04464
Dawson City, Heptonstall, People at Work, Places, Reservoir
Workers in Dawson City, which was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The ‘City’ housed many hundreds of men along with their wives and children. It was built in 1900 near Draper Corner, below Heptonstall Slack, as a settlement and depot for use during the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs located some five miles away.
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Horse Drawn Steam Power - ALC00608
Dawson City, Engine, Horse, Lee Wood Road, Places, Street Names
A team of at least eleven horses hauling up past Lee Wood one of the 15 Bagnall locos used on the construction of Halifax Corporation's Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This usually happened on a Saturday afternoon when the heavy cart horses belonging to tradespeople in Hebden Bridge could be used for this arduous task.
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Walshaw Reservoir Engine - ALC00607
Buildings, Construction, Dawson City, Locomotive, Places, Railway, Railways, Reservoir, Walshaw Dean Reservoir
ESAU was one of 15 Bagnall locos used on the works line during construction of Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. On the footplate is Enoch Tempest the construction contractor and next to him,sitting on the coal, his nephew or grandson George Tempest. On the right (back) is Fred Arthur Greenwood, bottom left Jimmy Duffy and on the right, Fred Powell who later became a Halifax tram driver. Scanned from glass plate 8.9.12
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Edmundson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00103
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This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in 1996.
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Edmundson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00102
Buildings, Dawson City, Hardware shop, Hebden Bridge, Places, Retail, Shop, Shops, Street Names, Valley Road
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in 1996.
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Edmundson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00131
Buildings, Dawson City, Hardware shop, Hebden Bridge, Places, Retail, Shop, Shops, Street Names, Valley Road
See LIL00101.
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Edmondson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00101
Dawson City, Hardware shop, Hebden Bridge, Valley Road
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in 1996.
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Edmondson's Hardware Shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00100
Dawson City, Hardware shop, Hebden Bridge, Valley Road
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in 1996.
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Dawson City huts and workmen - HLS05249
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Children at Dawson City, Heptonstall - HLS05248
Boy, Child, Dawson City, Girl, Heptonstall,
Many of the navvies who came to Dawson City to work on the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs brought their families with them.
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Locomotive Esau - HLS05247
Dawson City, Enoch Tempest, Esau, Holme End, Places, Reservoir Railway, Steam locomotive
The engine was used during the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs to transport men and equipment between the site and the base camp at Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall. Enoch Tempest, the Contractor, is standing on the footplate, and his nephew George is sitting on the coal.
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Locomotive Baldersdale - HLS05246
Dawson City, People, People at Leisure, People at Work, Picnic basket, Places, Reservoir Railway, Steam locomotive
The engine was used during the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs to transport men and equipment between the site and the base camp at Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall
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Baldersdale - HLS00364
Dawson City, Engine, Heptonstall Slack, Places, Railway, Railways, Reservoir Railway, Walshaw Dean
One of the engines used in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This picture is believed to have been taken in 1903 at the halt below Heptonstall Slack.
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Tempest Tramway - HLS00363
Dawson City, Heptonstall, Places, Walshaw Dean
Plan of the tramway, or railway, from Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, to the site of the reservoir construction at Walshaw Dean. From the Sutcliffe Architects Collection, I21.
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