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Moorland Track - DBC00138
Image to illustrate Ted's words 'There come days to the hills'.
Stoodley Pike - DBC00139
Image to illustrate Ted's words 'There come days to the hills'.
Burnley Road School 1935 - DBC00140
Ted is second row, dark jacket, 5th from right. Donald is 7th from right, wearing spectacles. Ted's sister Olwyn is in the third row down, sixth from the left.
Disused Mill at Mytholmroyd - DBC00142
Formerly occupied by Broadbent Machine Tools. This mill reminded Donald of Ted Hughes' poem 'Under the world's Rim'.
Canalside Mill at Mytholmroyd - DBC00143
Formerly occupied by Broadbent Machine Tools. This mill reminded Donald of Ted Hughes' poem 'Under the world's Rim'.
Southfield House, Mytholmroyd - DBC00144
Southfield was occupied, up to his death in 1976 by Walter Farrar. Walter was the uncle of poet laureate Ted Hughes and the subject of some of his poetry relating to Walter's service in the Great War. "My Uncle's Wound" and "Under High Wood" told of…
Southfield House, Mytholmroyd - DBC00145
Southfield was occupied, up to his death in 1976 by Walter Farrar. Walter was the uncle of poet laureate Ted Hughes and the subject of some of his poetry relating to Walter's service in the Great War. "My Uncle's Wound" and "Under High Wood" told of…
Hebden Bridge Station Warehouse. - DTA00101
1950s. The large station warehouse was built in two stages between 1877 and 1884/5. When goods facilities were withdrawn in 1966 it was let for general warehousing but was demolished following serious fire damage in 1969. During the 1960s houses were…
Hebden Bridge Station - DTA00102
Train just arriving from Todmorden.
M62, Birch Services - DTA00103
The motorway, which was first proposed in the 1930s, and conceived as two separate routes, was opened in stages between 1971 and 1976, with construction beginning at Pole Moor and finishing in Tarbock on the outskirts of Liverpool. The motorway…
Heptonstall Parish Church - DTA00104
Interior of Heptonstall Parish Church after the re-ordering.
Hebden Bridge - DTA00105
Junction of Bridge Gate and A646, Hebden Bridge
Heptonstall - DTA00106
Church of St Thomas a Becket, Heptonstall
River Calder - DTA00107
River Calder, Station Road, Hebden Bridge
Black Pit Lock, Hebden bridge - DTA00108
The lock on the Rochdale Canal prior to its restoration. It was Grade ll listed in 1984. Where the man and child are walking the canal is carried over the River Calder on an aqueduct.
Greenwood Lee, Heptonstall - DTA00109
Close by a large 16th century aisled barn is the latest known F-plan house, built for Robert and Grace Sutcliffe in 1712. The house is entirely 18th century, though in traditional style. The left gable was taken down and the house extended later in…
Heptonstall - DTA00110
Weaver's Square, Heptonstall, and the towers of the old and new churches.
River Calder at Brearley - DTA00111
Weir and Bridge over the River Calder at Brearley. The building on the right of the picture was once the Clarenden Hotel. It was also where the Ewood Estate tenants went to pay their rent once a year.
Heptonstall - DTA00112
Whitehall Farm, Heptonstall in snow
Hebden Bridge - DTA00113
Shops on New Road at the junction with Crown Street, Hebden Bridge.
Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge - DTA00115
Mayroyd Mill is on the left.
St James Church, Hebden Bridge - DTA00116
The Parish Church of Hebden Bridge, was consecrated on 5th October 1833.
The church is dedicated to St James the Great, and was built on land given by the Revd James Armytage Rhodes and his wife Mary, who lived at nearby Mytholm Hall.
The church is dedicated to St James the Great, and was built on land given by the Revd James Armytage Rhodes and his wife Mary, who lived at nearby Mytholm Hall.
Slack, above Heptonstall - DTA00117
Snow clearing at Slack, c1981. This is just belown the junction at Slack Bottom. The houses on the right are at Draper Corner.