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Probably a Church or Chapel Sunday School's day out walking along Midgehole Road towards the Drive into Hardcastle Crags.

The procession has just walked past the end of Crimsworth Terrace.

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The lodge at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is on the left of the picture, and in the foreground the popular Lello's Tea Rooms.

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Crimsworth Terrace is towards the left of the picture and Pecket Well at the top.

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The lodge at the entrance gates into Hardcastle Crags. Postcard

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The house has now been demolished and replaced with a modern house.

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The second person in on the back row left is Ivy Redman, the 5th person is Hilda Cockcroft (in white).

On the front row far right is Wallace Redman.

The tennis club appears on a 1934 map, but this photo was possibly taken in the early 1950s.

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Crimsworth Dean. Postcard. Addressed to Mrs F Eastwood, Ovenden sent to 'my dear mother' by Harold and Eve

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View from White Hill Nook. Postcard produced by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse

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Horse-drawn charabanc by the Lodge at Midgehole at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags. As seen here they were usually pulled by a four-in-hand team of horses. They could carry a large number of passengers this one has over twenty. Introduced from…

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Lee Mill, a cotton mill in the Hebden Valley and Dog Bottom, c1910. Seen here looking up towards hardcastle Crags. The mill was demolished in the 1960s by which time it was disused,

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The bridge over Hebden Water at Midgehole.

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The footpath from the Heptonstall Road to Midgehole. The Dyeworks and Crimsworth terrace are centre picture, and Pecket war memorial on the skyline.

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The building in the foreground is New Bridge Mill which was demolished in the 1950s. Above it is the Lodge at the gates into Hardcastle Crags. At the top of the picture is the war memorial on Smeakin Hill at Pecket Well.

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New Bridge Cottages, Midgehole (July 2000)

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The crane was installing a new roof (July 2000).

A fulling mill existed in the area prior to the 16th century which had been replaced and extended. In 1861, Worrals a firm of dyers and finishers from Salford bought the newly built dyeworks and…

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Lane Ends, Midgehole (2000)
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