Looking down the valley in the direction of Hebden Bridge. The signage on the building far right is advertising refreshments so as to be seen by visitors walking down Midgehole Road on the other side of the river.
The path in the centre is part of the old Packhorse route from Heptonstall crossing over the bridge here and then climbing up the hillside to Pecket Well.
Looking down on Midgehole towards Crimsworth Dean and the entrance to Hardcastle Crags.
On the left foreground is New Bridge Mill, a former fustian manufacturing mill, water powered but supplemented by steam in times of drought. By the late 1890s…
NEW BRIDGE spanning the Hebden near the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is a stone bridge of one arch built probably in the middle of the eighteenth century.
NEW BRIDGE spanning the Hebden near the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is a stone bridge of one arch built probably in the middle of the eighteenth century.
Looking up towards Hardcastle Crags. Far right Peckett Well War Memorial on Smeakin Hill. In the valley bottom New Mill at Midgehole is just discernible and the white building diagonally above it in the woods is Cosy Corner Guest House, now site of…
The charabanc is leaving Midgehole going towards Hebden Bridge. The road to the left goes down to New Bridge, and the mill when this was taken, and the road on the right to Hardcastle Crags gates. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society…
On the left Lee Wood Road bends round the corner at Whitehill Nook. The chimney and Midgehole Dye works can be seen towards the bottom of the picture. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
On the left Lee Wood Road bends round the corner at Whitehill Nook. The chimney and Midgehole Dye works can be seen towards the bottom of the picture. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Looking down over Midgehole. This Post Card from the "Lion" Series has been hand coloured (no colour film at the time). The postage required is 1/2d or 1d if foreign.