Photo taken at the north end of Church Street, Heptonstall, in 1921 by Rev J.V. Haswell who was vicar at Heptonstall Church in the 1920s. He was an amateur photographer who won numerous photographic competitions in Halifax, Bradford, Manchester…
Merry Weather fire engine, named 'Alderman Pickles', of Todmorden Fire Service, heads a parade of engines. Photo taken in Cragg Vale, probably in the 1920s.
On 13 April 1923 the Todmorden & District News reported:
North Street, Todmorden, around 1920 before properties including the tall building near the viaduct – housing a sweet shop, butcher’s, pie and pea café and a hairdressers – and the Black Swan, left, disappeared under a road widening scheme in the…
The groom was James Thomas Windsor, son of Absolom Windsor, a Nonconformist misiter , and his wife Gertrude. The bride was Dora Thomas, elder daughter of Elton Thomas of Hazelwood, Birchcliffe., owner of Crossley Mill, Hebden Bridge, and his wife…
George and Constance Pickles outside Mytholm Hall where the reception was held. They lived at Highroadwell. The bridesmaid on extreme right is Clara Crabtree. Possibly 1920s.
The town has changed a good deal since this photo was taken. Several of the mills have gone, along with the Bridge Lane houses, running from bottom left to right. Looking at the Birchcliffe area, centre right, a good many more house have been built.…
Lilian Crabtree, Florence Thomas, Vera Hirst, ? , Alice Dawson, Violetta Greenlees, Rebecca Holden?, Elizabeth Higgin, Alice Greenlees, Millie Jowett (next to Mr. Briggs)
Author and adventurer William Holt set up a holiday camp, Hawden Hall Holiday Camp and Tea Gardens, in the early 1920's. He ran it for a year before selling out to an ex-soldier.
Hawden Hall is sometimes described as Hebden Hey in the early…