Circa 1900. Foster Mill, owned by Redman Bros, was part of the Hebden Estate Company. William Henry Cockroft designed the Methodist Chapel. Moss Lane on the hillside leads to Heptonstall Road. Top left is Cross Lanes Chapel with the Manse on the…
The Talbot dog supported fountain can still be seen in Treveleyan Square in Leeds city centre. The Talbot was a type of hunting hound common in England during the Middle Ages.
Nellie (née Mitchell) sister of Doris, Annie, Emily and Alice of the New Delight Inn, Colden. She and Frank were married at Heptonstall Church in 1942.
1937, Colden gala: From left to right
Ethel Smith(nee Platt) Molly Baskerville, Douglas Crabtree, Shirley Burton, Gala Queen Joyce Greenwood, Joyce Sutcliffe, Dennis Burton, Unknown, Greta Sutcliffe, Joyce Sunderland.
Gala Queen - Nellie Speak, later Mrs Dawson. Attendants from left to right - Ida Burton, Clara Sutcliffe, Nellie Sutcliffe, Margaret Shaw, Alma Riley, Alice Greenwood, Norman Parker and Jonathan Forest. They had just got down from the float.
A horse drawn barge passing under the cast iron bow string bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Gauxholme near Todmorden with castellated twin Gothic tower abutments. The reinforcement beneath the deck was added in about 1905 to strengthen it.
Postcard. The cast iron Gauxholme Bridge over the Rochdale Canal was built by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and was described at the time as "a costly and beautiful structure possessing a most graceful appearance". Postcard.
In the foreground is the Moderna factory and above on the right Calder High School which had opened in 1950. The new housing estate of pre-fabricated Airey houses to the left of centre in the photo is the extension to the area known as Banksfields…
Looking down the valley towards Luddenden Foot. Scarbottom Mill with its dam is in the centre of the picture, with the Thornber poultry houses at Elphaborough to the left of centre. Postcard