Browse Items (232 total)
- Date contains "1910s"
Sort by:
Belle Vue Public Library, Halifax - DPC00240
Postcard August 1917.
The Golf Club House, Ogden, Halifax - DPC00230
Postcard dated August 1919.
Halifax Royal Infirmary - DPC00222
Postcard dated February 1913.
Skircoat Green, Halifax - DPC00214
Postcard dated December 1916.
Salterhebble, Halifax - DPC00208
Postcard dated August 1916.
Charlestown Curve Accident 1912. - RDA00106
21 June 1912. 'The Manchester to Leeds express literally burst the rails asunder' on the already notorious Charlestown Curve between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge killing four passengers and injuring many more. Seen here the derailed Aspinall 2-4-2T…
Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00239
Postcard with handwritten note on the reverse: '1912 CRAGG VALE. Front Robert Blatchford,3rd front James Benson, rear 3rd from right Helen Benson.
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00233
Postcard with 1917 postmark. This church, built in 1838 to replace a smaller church constructed in 1813, was paid for from the 'million pound fund'. An Act of Parliament allocated £1 million to build churches in the rapidly expanding industrial areas…
Mytholmroyd Industrial Society, New Road. - WAO00193
Mytholmroyd Co-op circa 1910. From left, Robert Boulton, Percy Horsfall, Fred Haigh, Fred Stansfield, Lewis Ackroyd and Bob Hartley. Inside the boy is Harry Greenwood and a man nicknamed "Luggage" so called because he once ran from Hollock Lea to the…
Mytholmroyd Tram Cartoon. - WAO00188
Postcard, with April 1910 postmark, caricaturing nightly chaos, presumably on a Saturday, when the last tram of the night left.
Cragg Road, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00184
Postcard with September 1914 postmark. Looking down Cragg vale to Dauber Bridge and Mytholmroyd beyond. In the days of the turnpike Dauber Bridge house, seen here, was a toll house.
Mytholmroyd - WAO00181
Undated postcard showing the Church Institute Bowling Green 22 July 1911. Behind is St Michael's Church.
Unknown Couple Outside House. - WAO00158
Early 20th century postcard pre-1910, posted in Mytholmroyd. It was sent by a Mr & Mrs Hargreaves of 23 Hall Gate, Mytholmroyd. Is this them? Sending family postcards was quite common at the time.
Mytholmroyd Looking North from Daisy Bank. - WAO00149
Postcard with August 1913 postmark. A long, westbound passenger train is passing Mytholmroyd station.
Cragg Bridge, Mytholmroyd - WAO00147
Postcard with July 1916 postmark.
St Michael's Church and Graveyard, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00111
Post card with 1917 postmark. The foundation stone for the church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a…
The Townsend Family - EIL00616
Sam, Gracie, nee Hartley, and their daughter Ethel who sadly died of typhoid when only 16 years old. They are all buried in Heptonstall Methodist Churchyard.
Coronation Arch, Hebden Bridge, 1911 - EIL00518
The arch, at the junction of New Road and Bridge Gate, was lit by gas on one side and on the side shown here by electricity. It was placed there to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, 22nd June 1911. Holme House can be seen…
Brooch to commemorate John Jellicoe - EIL00195
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB OM GCVO SGM (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Egyptian war and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of…
Sunday School Event, 1917 - EIL00160
Back row, 3rd from left James Sutcliffe Smith 1908~1972. Middle row, 4th from right Dorothy Smith nee Lowe 1907~2003. They married. James was brother to Graham Smith's grandfather Thomas Smith.
War Memorial, Pecket Well, nr Hebden Bridge - RUD00132
The War Memorial at Smeakin Hill to the 33 men of Wadsworth who lost their lives in the war of 1914 – 1918 was unveiled on 23rd September 1923 by Major Robert H. Barker.
Roughly based on Stoodley Pike, it is an obelisk 41 feet high (Stoodley is 120…
Roughly based on Stoodley Pike, it is an obelisk 41 feet high (Stoodley is 120…
Tom Ashworth - JET00183
17.7.1917 - 14.10.1980