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Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge - HLS05093
Bankfoot Garage, with a single petrol pump, looking up towards buildings on Heptonstall Road. The left-hand drive car by the garage has a post-1921 Leeds registration number.
Ledston Hall, from the North West - HLS05834
Slide 10 - Passing along the terrace path another view is taken in the opposite direction, showing one of the corner Towers and a portion of the building front facing west.
Sir John Lewis, who died in 1671, left no son to inherit his properties, but…
Clarance Hebblethwaite Holt – HOL00109
Born in Leeds 22/3/1882, died 9/10/1919 at Passchendaele.
Clarance Hebblethwaite Holt – HOL00110
Born in Leeds 22/3/1882, died 9/10/1919 at Passchendaele.
Clarance Holt's Regiment – HOL00121
22nd Manchester Regiment. Clarance is 4th from right on next to back row. Probably dated 1916 outside army hut before leaving with B.E.F. for France
Postcard from Clarance Holt, dated June 1917 - HOL00123
He was killed 9th October 1917
John Mahony (Jack), 1878 Bradford. c1915 - HOL00124
John with Margaret Mahony nee O'Rourke, 1873 - 1944, with daughter Margaret (Peggy) 1914 – 1993.
Letter from Clarance Holt - HOL00135
Letter from Clarance Holt to his youngest son, Derrick, on his 8th Birthday 1st July 1917.
Note on letter - HOL00137
Derrick's handwriting, the envelope contained the last letter he received from his father. Derrick was 8 years old on 1st July 1917 and his father, Clarance, was killed at Passchendaele 9th October that year.
Back of Postcard - HOL00138
Postcard from Clarance Holt, June 1917
Gladys, Claude and Mary Monica Longbottom. - HOL00143
Claude Served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in the first world war. He is in uniform here so this was possibly taken in about 1915. He would have been 18 in 1915 and Gladys would have been 21 and Monica 15.
Charlestown - Train at Thistle Bottom. - LLG00134
The track to left of train is the site of the infamous curve. It was the cause of many accidents over the years including a serious derailment in 1912 with several casualities including three fatalities. The detached house in the foreground is called…
Memorial to Crossley Westerman at Slack Cemetery - LLG00142
Inscription: Sacred to the memory of CROSSLY WESTERMAN Osborne House, Hebden Bridge BORN JULY 6TH 1861, DIED AUGUST 25TH 1918 ALSO OF ???? DAUGHTER OF SYDNEY (REDMAN?) DIED JUNE 12 1(9?? ??????) ALSO SYDNEY REDMAN DIED (DEC?)EMBER 2ND (1886?)…
Sowerby Bridge Carriage Cleaners. - GEE00107
Following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 women were recruited to do many jobs previously done by men. Seen here a team of carriage cleaners posing for the camera at Sowerby Bridge Depot.
Proclamation of King George, 1910 - GEE00117
Edward V11 died 6 May 1910, George V became king
Portsmouth Station c1910, on the Copy Pit Line - MOT00144
Looking up the line. The buildings in the background were stores for wood, used in the manufacture of bobbins by Wilson Bros of Cornholme.
Oldroyd Mill, about 1912. - MOT00152
Water powered mills on the line of Lumbutts Clough in Causey Wood. Oldroyd Mill, about 1912, the last mill to be powered by water from Lumbutts Clough. The manager's house is attached to the left of the building. The mill chimney in the far…
Robinwood Mill and Nott Wood Viaduct, Lydgate. - MOT00174
Robinwood c1910, a panorama of industry and communications with the 13 arch Nott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley line, the so called Copy Pit Line. Robinwood Mill, built in 1834, and purchased by Fielden Bros. in 1844, became the centre of…
Waterside - MOT00181
A view across the 'New' shed at Waterside in 1912. Interior of the large weaving shed at Waterside in 1912. It is now the site of the Morrisons Supermarket.
Joshua Smith's - MOT00188
View across the main weaving shed at Joshua Smith's, 1912.
Joshua Smith's - MOT00191
Joshua Smith's winding room - A view of the winding room at Joshua Smith's Frostholme Mill, in Cornholme, 1913. The firm of Joshua Smith's ran the mill from 1882 until well into the 1950s, at one time employing over 700 people in the production of…
Mons Mill, Todmorden - MOT00199
Until 1914 the mill was known as Hare Mill, recognisable by the huge white letters faced into the chimney in glazed brick.
Springside, Todmorden, c1910 - MOT00419
View looking towards Springside from Lob Mill area, c1910.
The long wooden building by the canalside was originally a rope works, erected Jonas Clegg in 1887.
The buildings on the roadside have all disappeared, along with the place names: Nell Cote…
The long wooden building by the canalside was originally a rope works, erected Jonas Clegg in 1887.
The buildings on the roadside have all disappeared, along with the place names: Nell Cote…
Walton's Picker Works, c1910 - MOT00217
The interior of Walton's Picker Works at Stoneswood Mill, Bacup road, c1910.
With the building of steam factories and the continual improvement in machines, there was a need for supportive trades to maintain production of yarn or cloth. From 1823,…
With the building of steam factories and the continual improvement in machines, there was a need for supportive trades to maintain production of yarn or cloth. From 1823,…