The old stone bridge here was submerged by the Wakefield Corporation Reservoir which was completed in 1956. At the West Riding Quarter Sessions in Pontefract in 1787 a gratuity of £50 was granted towards the bridge and in 1792 it was granted a…
Members of Hebden Urban District council photographed near the outlet grating in the bottom of Widdop reservoir, taken September 11th 1934 during drought. Donated by Hebden Royd Town Council
Halifax Cororation Waterworks visit by memebers and officals of Hebden Bridge UDC. 11th September 1934. Loaned for scanning by Hebden Royd Town Council.
Ryburn Reservoir is a supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the lower of two reservoirs built to supply Wakefield with water. Started in 1925 it was completed in 1933 and has…
Constructed in 1898 as a compensation tunnel for Green Withens Reservoir, one of the former Wakefield Water Board’s biggest holdings with a capacity of over 300 million gallons, the tunnel runs back for 850…
27th Aug, 1938. Fred Barker, Bottomley (surveyor), Fred Hodgson, G.W. Sutcliffe, Milton Sunderland, G.H. Walton, Tom Sunderland (Treasurer) Arthur Sutcliffe.