David Walton, 1938-1957 Only child of Frank and Olive Walton who ran a Newsagents shop on Commercial Street, Hebden Bridge. David was tragically killed in a motorbike accident, on his way to college in Halifax.
Workers in Dawson City, which was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The ‘City’ housed many hundreds of men along with their wives and children. It was built in 1900 near Draper Corner, below Heptonstall Slack, as a settlement and depot for…
John Fielden, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle on top of the…
Joshua Fielden’s brother John, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle…
Believed to be Dr Davidson, in a horse drawn four wheeled carriage for one person, possibly a Stanhope or Spider Phaeton, on Burnley Road Hebden Bridge. Note the tramlines.