The Lodge, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH00208
Description
Postcard with August 1925 postmark. Looking over New Bridge, Midgehole, up to Crimsworth Dean. Bottom left the roof of New Bridge Mill, a former water powered cotton mill, and centre right the entrance to the Crags.
Undated postcard. Looking up Crimsworth Dean with Midgehole and New Bridge Mill bottom centre of the picture and the Lodge and gates to Hardcastle Crags above.
Undated postcard. Looking up Crimsworth Dean. Below centre is the Lodge and entrance to Hardcastle Crags with the drive through the Crags going off to the left. Bottom left is New Bridge Mill a former water powered cotton mill part of which became Tea Rooms from the 1890s until the First World War; it was demolished 1950s.
Refreshment Facilities, New Bridge, Midgehole, Hebden Bridge. - WMH00150
Description
Undated postcard but possibly 1920s. It shows a number of refreshment facilities at New Bridge, catering for the vast number of visitors to Hardcastle Crags. First on the right is Crossley's Tea Rooms and next to that New Bridge Mill which first became Sutcliffe's Tea Rooms early 1890s and then Lello's Tea Rooms but probably closed due to the First World War and looking rather derelict here. On the left New Bridge Hall is also advertising teas and ices. All of this just at the entrance to the Crags! There was a real 'hospitalty' industry here. Good stabling is also offered.
The River Hebden at New Bridge, Midgehole - STW00115
Description
On the right the Lodge at the gates to Harcastle Crags and on the left New Bridge Mill. By the time of this photo the upper floor of the mill had been converted into Tea Rooms advertised on the gable end.
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 Hebden Hey Scout Hostel.
Hebden Bridge - Hawden Hall pre-First World War - HLS05200
Description
Originally Hawden Hole, it is situated on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midge Hole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in February 1817. After the First World War it was turned into Hawden Hall Holiday Camp and Tea Rooms by William Holt. The old whitewashed farmhouse has now been demolished and the barn behind it renovated and is now known as Hawdon Hall. In the centre is New Bridge Mill but by the time this photo was taken it was Lello's Tea Rooms.