Undated postcard but the sender writes that "there was a railway accident here last Friday" which would have been the Charlestown Curve disaster of 21st June 1912. Another card with the same image is postmarked 17 July 1912.
Undated postcard. Hawden Hole, sub-titled 'The Better Hole' here, is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside on today’s Lee Wood Road between Midgehole and Hebden Hey and above the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally…
Undated postcard. Hawden Hole is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside on today’s Lee Wood Road between Midgehole and Hebden Hey and above the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in…
Postcard with April 1949 postmark. Hawden Hole is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside on today’s Lee Wood Road between Midgehole and Hebden Hey and above the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of…
Hawden Hole on today's Lee Wood Road is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midge Hole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in…
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…
Undated postcard. The name Mitchell on the imgae presumably refers to the proprietor although other photos from about the same time show the proprietor as Ernest Greenwood.
The Pavilion Tearoom, about 250 metres downstream from Gibson Mill on the…
Undated postcard. 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, was one of…
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 date stamped August 1908. Upstream from Gibson Mill with the people standing on the riverside path. The small weir was to control the flow above the weir for Gibson Mill.
Postcard postmarked July 1935. The path is most likely the one which runs from near the top of the Drive down to Hebden Water and the path to Blake Dean below Walshaw.