This eye-catching monument on the Pennine Way stands nearly 1,400 feet above sea level and some 120 feet high on the crest of a windswept hill. It was erected to commemorate the surrender of Paris to the Allied Armies in March 1814: during the…
The chimneys of Lumb Mill show above the trees, with Lumb Bank in the centre of the picture, and top left the houses of slack. Postcard, published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse
An early steam powered mill, built in 1861 by Colden Cotton & Commercial Company Limited, was the last to be built in the Colden Valley. It was demolished in the 1970s following a fire. Colden School can be seen left of centre. On the very left of…
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…