Folly Dam, used by Todmorden Angling Soc - TAS01536
Fishing, Reservoir, Todmorden
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2014-10-03T21:02:16
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Packhorse Trail and Lumbutts Chapel - TAS01528
Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Paths & Tracks, Reservoir, Todmorden
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2014-10-03T21:00:13
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Valve Tower SE corner of Widdop Reservoir, Heptonstall - CBC02087
Heptonstall, Reservoir, Widdop Road
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 have tapering pilasters acting as buttresses to frieze. Projecting double cornice. Sides and rear have rectangular windows with large plain stone surrounds. A unique building, the engineer deriving the inspiration for the design after his visit to Egypt to witness the opening of the Suez Canal.
NGR SD 93529 32620
CMBC Ref H 181
Historic England List Entry Number 1226701
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2021-10-15T09:26:33
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Albert Reservoir Side Gate, Halifax - PNH01137
Albert Reservoir, Gate, Gate Pillars, Gate post, Gate posts, Gatepost, Gateposts, Gates, Gateway, Reservoir, Reservoirs
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Widdop Reservoir from Widdop Head - WMH00743
Hebden Bridge, Moorland, Postcard, Reservoir, Road, Widdop Head, Widdop Reservoir, Widdop Road
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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William Henwood
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Reservoir Railway, Blake Dean, Nr. Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge - WMH00726
Hebden Bridge, Locomotive, People at Work, Postcard, Railway, Railways, Reservoir, Walshaw Dean
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 from their ‘Dawson City’ shanty town near Heptonstall to the construction sites. The rails were lifted in about 1907 but the trackbed can still be made out in places.
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William Henwood
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Lee Dam, Lumbutts - JNB00692
Landscape, Lumbutts, Reservoir
Postcard dated 1984.
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PHDA – John Billingsley Collection
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Lumbutts, Todmorden - JNB00690
Lumbutts, Methodist Chapel, Paths & Tracks, Reservoir
Postcard dated 1980.
todmorden Photographic Society
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Path above Lumbutts, 1979 - JNB00517
Causey Path, Lumbutts, Moorland, Paths & Tracks, Places, Reservoir
Featured in Remains of Elmet, which contained poems by Ted Hughes.
An excellent view of Foster Mill
Fay Godwin
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Baitings Reservoir, 1995 - MCH00275
Baitings, Drought, Reservoir, Reservoirs
During the drought that year the water level fell to below the old road.
Mick Chatham
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Baitings Reservoir, 1995 - MCH00274
Baitings, Drought, Reservoir, Reservoirs
During the drought that year the water level fell to below the old road.
Mick Chatham
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Baitings Reservoir, 1995 - MCH00273
Baitings, Drought, Reservoir, Reservoirs
During the drought that year the water level fell to below the old road.
Mick Chatham
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The Former New Inn, Baitings - MCH00265
Baitings, New Bank, Reservoir, Reservoirs
The inn was closed in June 2000 and was converted to a private dwelling.
Mick Chatham
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New Inn, Baitings - MCH00261
Baitings, New Inn, Reservoir, Reservoirs
The inn, close to Baitings Reservoir, closed in June 2000, this photo was taken soon after that. The property is now a private dwelling.
Mick Chatham
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The Old Road Bridge at Baitings, 1995 - DAH00187
Baitings, Bridge, Drought, Reservoir, Reservoirs
Dianne Harwood
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Baitings Reservoir Spillway and Overflow - MIC00106
Baitings, Places, Reservoir, Reservoirs, Ripponden
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 m). The dam at the east end of the reservoir is 1,550 feet (470 m) across and 185 feet (56 m) high. At low water levels, the old road and bridge become visible. Ryburn Reservoir was the first to be opened on 7 September 1933 after eight years construction at a cost of £240,000. The dam at the east end of the reservoir is approximately 100 feet (30 m) high. It has a volume of 220 million gallons and covers 26 acres which includes the submerged village of Bogden.
Michael Clarke
Pennine Heritage
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1980s
Pennine Heritage
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MIC00106.tif
Baitings Dam, Ripponden - MIC00105
Baitings, Places, Reservoir, Reservoirs, Ripponden
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 depth of 155 feet (47 m). The dam at the east end of the reservoir is 1,550 feet (470 m) across and 185 feet (56 m) high. At low water levels, the old road and bridge become visible. Baitings draws extra water from Cragg Vale via the Manshead Tunnel. The downstream side of the dam incorporates a hill climb track 430 yards long with four bends, which is used several times a year for motor club events.
Ryburn Reservoir was the first to be opened on 7 September 1933 after eight years construction at a cost of £240,000. The dam at the east end of the reservoir is approximately 100 feet (30 m) high. It has a volume of 220 million gallons and covers 26 acres which includes the submerged village of Bogden
Michael Clarke
Pennine Heritage
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1980s
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MIC00105.tif
Swineshead Dam - CRN00364
Reservoir, Todmorden
2003
Christine Newell
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2016-10-26T11:54:01
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Withens Clough, Cragg Vale - HBW00421
Cragg Vale, Places, Reservoir, Steps, Withens Clough
Withens Clough conduit looking east to Cragg Vale
Helen Pedley
Hebden Bridge Walkers Action
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Hebden Bridge Walkers Action
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Withens Clough, Cragg Vale - HBW00420
Cragg Vale, Places, Reservoir, Steps, Withens Clough
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.
Helen Pedley
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Waterworks Committee visit to Gorple Reservoirs & Filter Plant - MOS00104
Gorple, Reservoir, Reservoirs
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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Drawoff Pipe at Green Withens Reservoir - CVH00196
Green Withens, Places, Reservoir, Rishworth
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 feet into the hillside. The other end is at the bottom of the 66 foot high retaining wall of the reservoir itself. The tunnel is sealed by two giant sluice gates each of which take 750 turns of a geared wheel to open or close.
Originally used to allow water to run from the reservoir to feed the mills of the Rishworth Valley, the tunnel was opened at 5 a.m. and closed at 5 p.m. every day. Now it is no longer used and only a trickle of water runs down the massive steps leading to the stone conduit.
When the reservoir was being constructed the tunnel served another purpose – a short cut to the wall that was to hold back millions of gallons.
All the local water boards were amalgamated to become Yorkshire Water in 1973.
Christine Butterworth
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Green Withens Reservoir, Rishworth - CVH00193
Green Withens, Places, Reservoir, Rishworth
Christine Butterworth
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PHDA - Cragg Vale History Group
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Albert Fairbanks, Reservoir Keeper - CVH00192
Green Withens, Places, Reservoir, Rishworth
At Green Withens Reservoir, Rishworth
Christine Butterworth
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PHDA - Cragg Vale History Group
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Visit to Ryburn Dam, 1930 - CVH00191
Group, People, Reservoir, Ryburn
Christine Butterworth
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