The house in the background is Grange Dene, This has been demolished and replace with three new buildings making the present Medical Centre of the same name.
The old parish church of St Thomas a Beckett at Heptonstall. was founded in the 13th century although much of the ruin that still stands dates from the 15th century. The new church dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle was built in 1854, after a fierce…
"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…
Stoodley Pike stands on the top of Langfield Moor, Todmorden. It was built by public subscription in 1814 to commemorate the general peace. By an amazing coincidence it crumbled to the ground on the day on which the Russian Ambassador was withdrawn…