Stoneshey Gate house is a large Grade II listed building, the date 1784 is set in tympanum of triangular pediment. Right hand return wall is water-shot and has Venetian window to attic retaining original leaded lights and Gothic-glazed central light.…
Photographed from the Valley View area of Heptonstall. The strange, tall, lean-to building with 12 battlements on one side can be seen when walking up to Heptonstall. Heptonstall Road runs across the centre of the picture between the building on the…
Situated at the top of Moss Lane with an excellent view over Hebden Bridge. The houses of Highfield Crescent are on the left of the picture in the distance.
There was a school connected with Slater Bank. It was run by a Mr Moss, and known as…
Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
The house in the centre of the picture is Angeldale on Hangingroyd Lane. Moss Lane winds up the hillside to the Heptonstall road. Cross Lanes Chapel is on the extreme left of the picture. Back of photo dated 1956
Visitors to Hardcastle Crags walking past Lee Mill; demolished about 1970 but by then no longer used as acotton mill. Peckett Well War Memorial on the skyline. Postcard
Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)