Undated postcard. Cosy Corner, on the south hillside above Hardcastle Crags, started life as Hebden Farm but by the 1890s the occupiers had, like several others in and around Hardcastle Crags, started providing refreshments for the thousands who…
ALC00320. Visitors to Hardcastle Crags walking up Keighley Road from the Railway Station early twentieth century. At Whitsuntide and September holiday weekends several thousand people would arrive by train for a day out.
Postcard with June 1939 postmark. Visitors to Hardcastle Crags walking along Midgehole Road past Lee Miil, a former cotton mill demolished in the 1970s. On the skyline is Pecket Well War Memorial.
This was just one of several refreshment facilities at the Crags catering for the vast numbers of visitors who came from the mill towns on both sides of the Pennines. A little below it is Gibson Mill 'entertainment emporium'.
Undated postcard but possibly 1920s. It shows a number of refreshment facilities at New Bridge, catering for the vast number of visitors to Hardcastle Crags. First on the right is Crossley's Tea Rooms and next to that New Bridge Mill which first…
Undated postcard. John and Emma Greenwood's 'Hardcastle Chalet' tearoom was just a short way up the Drive from Gibson Mill and was one of several refreshment facilities on either side of the valley catering to the thousands of visitors who came to…
Postcard with April 1912 postmark. One of four sets of stepping stones at Hardcastle Crags three of which are still useable when the river is low. The Pavilion Tearoom, about 250 metres downstream from Gibson Mill on the opposite bank of the river,…
Postcard with July 1907 postmark. The weir feeding the mill pond at Gibson Mill and above it Greenwood's 'The Chalet' tearooms, one of several refreshment facilities on both sides of the valley providing for the thousands of visitors to the Crags.
Undated Postcard. Originally Hebden Farm but by the 1890s the occupiers, like several others in and around Hardcastle Crags, had started providing refreshments for the thousands who visited the ‘Beauty Spots of Hebden Bridge’ and it then became known…
Undated postcard. The women's dresses suggest that the photo is pre-First World War. Would hitching their dresses above the knees to paddle have been considered risque at the time?