Bridge dated 1892. Cast Iron by "De Bergue & Co. Ltd. Manchester." A 2 span slightly skewed bridge with triangular stone breakwaters which rise into elaborately decorated piers. East pier is inscribed "E. Riley - Architect" and the west pier is…
Palace House is in there foreground and the other side of what is now Calder Holmes Park Hope Baptist Church stands proud. On the left the road to Heptonstall winds up the hill past Crosslanes Chapel.
Originally termed a cottage, this building caused quite a bit of controversy during the building of the Walshaw reserservoirs in the 1900s. The room nearest the camera was used for committee meetings. The tracks are for the railway used during the…
Traffic lights now replace the policeman at this junction of New Road, Bridge Gate, Holme Street and West End. The building of the corner on the left was for many years Blackburn's Ironmongers. The house next to the pharmacy is Westbourne House and…
This church was built at a cost of £7,000. The new church was consecrated on 26th October 1854 by Bishop Longley of Ripon and dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle.
Alice Longstaff walking down the footpath to Salt Pie Farm. Rodmer Clough Farm is on the other side of the valley and on the skyline Scotland and Greenland farms can be seen.
Gibson Mill, built in around 1800, is situated within Hardcastle Crags woodland beside Hebden Water. It was one of the first mills of the Industrial Revolution. The mill was driven by a water wheel and produced cotton cloth up until 1890. In 1833,…
Heptonstall has two churches within one graveyard. Although not unique, there is another instance at Alvingham in Lincolnshire, this is unusual. At the centre of the village are the ruins of the Church of St Thomas à Becket built between 1256 and…