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BREARLEY BRIDGE is a single-arch saddle-back stone bridge thought to date from the mid 18th century. An inn, the Mill Inn, later the Clarence Inn, once stood on the Brearley side of the bridge. There was a bridge there in the seventeenth century as…

Bridge over the River Calder at Brearley, circa 1960

BOOTH DEAN BRIDGE, Rishworth, is a single-arch stone bridge in Booth Dean, carrying the road across the valley to Ripponden and Ringstone Reservoir

Bondgate Tower in the City Wall, Alnwick, Northumberland, displaying the Percy Lion. Photo circa 1960

BLACK CASTLE CLOUGH is crossed by a low culvert which was reconstructed in 1932. On the Ripponden side of the bridge is carved ‘RESTORED 1932 J.H. PRICE.’ The bridge, before its reconstruction, is illustrated opposite page 15 of the book ‘A…

BILTON PIER in Luddenden Dene is the wooden bridge higher up the valley from Wade Wood. It was so called from the persistence of a Mr Bilton of Upper Mytholm Farm who objected to the stepping stones, formerly there, as not sufficient for safe…

This is Berry Lane as it passes under the Charlestown Viaduct. The buildings seen on the left on the other side of the viaduct are part of Riding Hall Carpet Mill. To the right of the photographer will be the coal yard associated with the coal drops,…

The old stone bridge here was submerged by the Wakefield Corporation Reservoir which was completed in 1956. At the West Riding Quarter Sessions in Pontefract in 1787 a gratuity of £50 was granted towards the bridge and in 1792 it was granted a…