LYRS 3561 - Copley Viaduct climbing up to Copley Station and Halifax with bridge over the River Calder on the Calder Valley Main Line in LMS period with a goods or coal train heading west towards Milner Royd Junction.
Original postcard. In the foreground the three arch viaduct on the original M&LR Calder Valley Main Line. Behind it the impressive 23 arch viaduct completed 1851 on the WRU line from Milner Royd up to Dryclough Junction south of Halifax Station.
A Grade 2 listed dating from 1897, the Town Hall is a Victorian building with a rich history having previously being used as the local fire station and council offices. In 2010 the Hebden Bridge Community Association acquired The Town Hall from…
MYTHOLMROYD COUNTY BRIDGE. The first reference to this bridge is in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) where the river Calder is described as receiving "one rill neere Elphabrught Bridge." Elphabrough Hall was an important hall on the Cragg Vale bank of…
Through the left hand arch of the bridge the Elphin Brook joins the River Calder. The building on the very left of the picture was the Mytholmroyd Co-op.
DAUBER BRIDGE is in Cragg Vale just past Hoo Hole where the road from Mytholmroyd turns half left over the bridge. It is a single-arch stone bridge crossing the Cragg Brook (Cragg Brook is the modern name.)
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid 1960s as unfit for human habitation. The houses to the right of the bridge were demolished and replaced by a riverside walk.
DENTON BRIDGE, Kebroyd. Below Kebroyd Mills the Lumb Brook is crossed by the main road between Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden at Denton Bridge, a high, stone, single-arch. This is probably the site of the ford over which Samuel Hill, the clothier,…
DUMB MILL BRIDGE in the Shibden Valley has been known successively as Barrowclough Bridge, Place Bridge, Deaf Mill Bridge and its present name. It spans the Red Beck which was the boundary between the Hipperholme and Southowram townships. The stream…