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Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06016
Slide 8 - The Dining Room is also furnished with old time furniture, and the walls are hung with fine paintings, and amongst the most notable of these, is one over the side-board, which is a portrait by Vandyke.
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06015
Slide 7 - Entering the house by the door facing North, we are shown into the entrance hall, and the furniture and appointments of which are quite in keeping with the style of architecture of the edifice.
At the end of the hall is seen the…
At the end of the hall is seen the…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06010
Slide 2 - The house contains a good library, principally collected by Sir Godfrey Copley, and includes some rare M.S.S, it also contains a fine collection of pictures by Holbein, Raphael, Vandyke and other noted painters, procured by Sir Godfrey…
Sprotbrough Church - HLS06020
Slide 12 - In the south aisle is a singular stone chair with grotesque sculpture of the 14th century date, sometimes supposed to be a sanctuary seat. This relic was dug out of the churchyard many years ago.
Spinning mule in Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00122
This view is of the spinning room and shows a pair of self-acting mules spinning cotton yarn from roving. The spindles are mounted in a moving carriage and move away from the drafting rollers, inserting twist. Usually in cotton spinning, the carriage…
Spinning at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00140
This view in the Spinning Room shows ring spinning frames, an alternative process for the production of cotton yarn to the self-acting mule. Rovings from the roving frame are placed in the creel and the ends threaded through the roller drafting…
Spinner - HCC00256
Donated by Denise Ramsden
Slack Chapel, Heptonstall - PNH00313
April 1987, during restoration.
Mount Zion Baptist Church Slack, Heptonstall, was built in 1808 by a breakaway group from Birchcliffe Chapel in Hebden Bridge, but the present building dates from 1878.
Mount Zion Baptist Church Slack, Heptonstall, was built in 1808 by a breakaway group from Birchcliffe Chapel in Hebden Bridge, but the present building dates from 1878.
Shibden Hall, Interior - HLS06033
Slide 4 - The entrance to the Hall on the south side is by a long narrow porch, which opens into a long passage (as was the case in all medieval mansions) through the entire width of the house. On the left of this passage is the most interesting…
Shibden Hall, Halifax - BIM00437
Once the home of the 19th century feminist diarist Ann Lister.
Shibden Hall, Halifax - BIM00437
Once the home of the 19th century feminist diarist Ann Lister.
