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Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean, Nr. Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge - WMH00719
Undated postcard. During the construction of Walshaw Dean reservoirs for Halifax Corporation a railway or tramway was built from near Heptonstall up to the sites to transport materials, supplies and the navvies from the shanty town near Heptonstall…
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean, Near. Hebden Bridge. - WAO00209
Undated postcard. The bridge was built to carry a tramway from Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, to transport materials and navvies to the construction site of Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. The bridge was 700ft long and 105ft above the valley floor. The bridge…
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean, Nr. Hebden Bridge - WMH00711
Undated postcard and the sender's message reads:
"This bridge was a wood one and crossed from one Hill to the other it was put up when working at our Water works for the men it is now blown down as it began to rot & one lady was looking over when one…
"This bridge was a wood one and crossed from one Hill to the other it was put up when working at our Water works for the men it is now blown down as it began to rot & one lady was looking over when one…
Trestle Viaduct, Walshaw Dean. - KEC00190
"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…
View over Derdale, Todmorden - MOT00134
Panorama of the Derdale industrial area being served by barges on the Rochdale Canal. Centre left part of the town centre viaduct.
View over Todmorden - BIM00164
Showing Todmorden Town Hall and the ralway viaduct.
View over Todmorden - TAL00414
From R A Priestley. AN 58157274
View Over Todmorden - TAL00533
From R A Priestley
Walsden, Todmorden, 1981 - TNC00326.tif
View over Gauxholme with the railway on the left curving to cross the Gauxholme Viaduct with the tower of Dobroyd Castle visible above it.
Whiteley Arches - ALC00423
1933. The bowstring bridge over the Rochdale Canal; when built in 1840 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway it was one of the first such in the country. It was replaced in 1939 with the metal trough bridge we see today. To the left Canalside Mill…
Whiteley Arches - PNH00767
Replacing the original 1840 bowstring, or trussed frame, bridge over the Rochdale Canal with the metal trough bridge we see today. To the right the tall chimney of the former Calderside Mill.
Whiteley Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge - KEC00174
West of Hebden Bridge on the Todmorden road the viaduct was built in 1839/40 on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. An early example of skew arches. The bridge was originally bow string but was replaced about 1940 as a matter of neccesity by the metal…
Whiteley Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge. - KEC00173
West of Hebden Bridge on the Todmorden road the viaduct was built in 1839/40 on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. An early example of skew arches. The bridge was originally bow string but was replaced about 1940 as a matter of neccesity by the metal…
Whitely Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge - HLS00283
Tinted lithograph of Whitely Arches by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway' published in 1845. The valley is so narrow at this point with the river, canal and turnpike all squeezed into the valley bottom that with the…
Winston Churchill in Todmorden - TAL00490
6th July 1945. AN6992781X