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Grade II

Valve-tower for Widdop Reservoir constructed 1872-1878 by John La Trobe Bateman engineer. Large ashlar blocks, bitumen roof. Square on plan with tapering sides. Egyptian in style. Door to south has monolithic jambs with batter. Corners…

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Widdop Road winding across the moors between Heptonstall and Colne. Stone for building will have been quarried from the hole right of centre.

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Undated postcard. One of the 15 engines used during the construction of the reservoirs at Walshaw Dean for Halifax Corporation. Work started in 1901. As well as transporting supplies and materials the railway was also used to transport the navvies…

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Featured in Remains of Elmet, which contained poems by Ted Hughes.

An excellent view of Foster Mill

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During the drought that year the water level fell to below the old road.

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During the drought that year the water level fell to below the old road.

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During the drought that year the water level fell to below the old road.

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The inn was closed in June 2000 and was converted to a private dwelling.

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The inn, close to Baitings Reservoir, closed in June 2000, this photo was taken soon after that. The property is now a private dwelling.

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Baitings and Ryburn reservoirs were built for Wakefield Corporation. Baitings was opened on 14 November 1956 after eight years work and a cost of £1.4 million. It covers 64 acres with a volume of 775 million gallons, reaching a depth of 155 feet (47…

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Baitings and Ryburn reservoirs were built between 1948 and 1956 for Wakefield Corporation. Baitings was opened on 14 November 1956 after eight years work and a cost of £1.4 million. It covers 64 acres with a volume of 775 million gallons, reaching a…

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Withens Clough conduit looking east to Cragg Vale

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Part of a pair as the conduit goes over a dip in the slope. Stark symmetry is a surprise in this rural setting on a permitted path.

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27th Aug, 1938. Fred Barker, Bottomley (surveyor), Fred Hodgson, G.W. Sutcliffe, Milton Sunderland, G.H. Walton, Tom Sunderland (Treasurer) Arthur Sutcliffe.

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Pictured during the drought of 1958/59.

Constructed in 1898 as a compensation tunnel for Green Withens Reservoir, one of the former Wakefield Water Board’s biggest holdings with a capacity of over 300 million gallons, the tunnel runs back for 850…
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