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Visitors to Walshaw Dean Reservoir - JNB00505
Taken, c 1906, during the constructionof the reservoirs.
Dawson City, Heptonstall C1905 - RDA00113
Dawson City was a hutted encampment which housed up to 600 navvies and engineers employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs and the Hardcastle Crags Railway. It was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The contractor for the…
Dawson City, Heptonstall - EIL00121
Named after the town of Dawson City in The Yukon in Canada which experienced the Klondike Gold Rush towards the end of the 19th century, this place, above Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, was well established by the time of the 1901 census.
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Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04466
The wooden 'city' was built to house the workmen and their families employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs, 1900 to 1912.
Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04465
Children from the encampment built to house the workmen and their families employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs, 1900 to 1912.
Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04464
Workers in Dawson City, which was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The ‘City’ housed many hundreds of men along with their wives and children. It was built in 1900 near Draper Corner, below Heptonstall Slack, as a settlement and depot for…
Horse Drawn Steam Power - ALC00608
A team of at least eleven horses hauling up past Lee Wood one of the 15 Bagnall locos used on the construction of Halifax Corporation's Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This usually happened on a Saturday afternoon when the heavy cart horses belonging to…
Walshaw Reservoir Engine - ALC00607
ESAU was one of 15 Bagnall locos used on the works line during construction of Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. On the footplate is Enoch Tempest the construction contractor and next to him,sitting on the coal, his nephew or grandson George Tempest. On the…
Edmundson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00103
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in…
Edmundson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00102
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in…
Edmondson's hardware shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00101
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in…
Edmondson's Hardware Shop, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge - LIL00100
This wooden building, previously a coal merchant's office, is believed to have been one of the huts from Dawson City, the navvy encampment which provided accommodation for the men who built Walshaw Dean reservoirs. The hut was destroyed by fire in…
Children at Dawson City, Heptonstall - HLS05248
Many of the navvies who came to Dawson City to work on the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs brought their families with them.
Locomotive Esau - HLS05247
The engine was used during the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs to transport men and equipment between the site and the base camp at Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall. Enoch Tempest, the Contractor, is standing on the footplate, and his nephew…
Locomotive Baldersdale - HLS05246
The engine was used during the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs to transport men and equipment between the site and the base camp at Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall
Baldersdale - HLS00364
One of the engines used in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This picture is believed to have been taken in 1903 at the halt below Heptonstall Slack.
Tempest Tramway - HLS00363
Plan of the tramway, or railway, from Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, to the site of the reservoir construction at Walshaw Dean. From the Sutcliffe Architects Collection, I21.