Undated postcard but possibly 1920s. It shows a number of refreshment facilities at New Bridge, catering for the vast number of visitors to Hardcastle Crags. First on the right is Crossley's Tea Rooms and next to that New Bridge Mill which first…
Undated postcard. The road up the Crags from Midgehole climbs along on the right and in the centre is the dam (no public access), near Hawden Hole, which served New Bridge Mill at Midgehole. Above the dam and in a clearing is Thornton’s Tea…
Undated postcard. Looking up Crimsworth Dean with Midgehole and New Bridge Mill bottom centre of the picture and the Lodge and gates to Hardcastle Crags above.
Postcard with August 1925 postmark. Looking over New Bridge, Midgehole, up to Crimsworth Dean. Bottom left the roof of New Bridge Mill, a former water powered cotton mill, and centre right the entrance to the Crags.
They say you can't believe everything you read in the papers, the same applies to postcards! A similar view is captioned Colden Valley, but even that is not right, this is looking up the Crimsworth Valley, with Hollin Hall Farm right of centre.
Postcard date stamped July 1909. Gibson Mill is a former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags, it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted…
Undated postcard. Gibson Mill is a former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an…
Undated postcard addressed to "Little Percy Walters" exhorting him to be a good boy.
The Greenwood's ‘Lord Holme Restaurant’ in one the Lord Holme Cottages in the yard of Gibson Mill, officially Lord Holme Mill, a former water powered cotton mill…
Postcard with illegible date stamp but prior to the cottages becoming the Lord Holme Restaurant. The former mill workers' cottages are in the yard of Gibson Mill, officially Lord Holme Mill, a water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle…
Undated postcard. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an ‘entertainment emporium’…
Undated postcard. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an ‘entertainment emporium’…
Postcard with August 1936 postmark but the same photo is used on a 1929 card. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme…
Undated postcard. The cottages, now demolished, were a little way downstream from Gibson Mill on the other side of the river on what today is the track from the top (Widdop Road) National Trust Car Park. The tenant of the lefthand cottage, like many…
The cottages, now demolished, were a little way downstream from Gibson Mill on the other side of the river, on what today is the path down from the National Trust top car park on Widdop Road. The cobbles seen here are still there.