Waterworks Committee visit to Gorple Reservoirs & Filter Plant - MOS00104
Gorple, Reservoir, Reservoirs
27th Aug, 1938. Fred Barker, Bottomley (surveyor), Fred Hodgson, G.W. Sutcliffe, Milton Sunderland, G.H. Walton, Tom Sunderland (Treasurer) Arthur Sutcliffe.
PHDA - Molly Sunderland Collection
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MOS00104.tif
Reaps Farm, Gorple - KES00154
Gorple,
Probably dating from early 1930s, we see Mary Hannah Greenwood (nee Speak) on the right with an unknown companion. They are on the track above the Gorple reservoir workings, possibly returning to Colden after attending the Blake Dean Chapel anniversary.
Directly behind Mary Hannah can be seen the white gable end of a farm called "Dry Summer" (earlier one of two Reaps farms). Teas were served from here for visitors coming to view the Gorple reservoir workings, and beyond that are the huts where the navvies lived.
The barn on the left of the picture (also white) had been converted to a beerhouse, named Gorple Canteen, which served the navvies working on the reservoir construction.
Mary Hannah Greenwood
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1930s
PHDA - Keith Stansfield Collection
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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Gorple Reservoir Visit - HCC00308
Councillors, Gorple, Group, People, Reservoir, Reservoirs
Halifax Cororation Waterworks visit by memebers and officals of Hebden Bridge UDC. 11th September 1934. Loaned for scanning by Hebden Royd Town Council.
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Hebden Royd Town Council
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
1934, 1930s
Hebden Royd Town Council
PHDA - Horizons Community Collection
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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English (U.K.)
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HCC
Visit to Gorple Reservoir - HCC00306
Councillors, Gorple, Group, People, Reservoir, Reservoirs
Halifax Cororation Waterworks visit by memebers and officals of Hebden Bridge UDC. 2nd July 1929. Loaned for scanning by Hebden Royd Town Council
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Hebden Royd Town Council
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
1929, 1920s
Hebden Royd Town Council
PHDA - Horizons Community Collection
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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English (U.K.)
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HCC
The Huts are for the workman/navies building Gorple Reservoir - ALC04771
Buildings, Construction, Gorple, Huts, Reservoir
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Formerly BT626
PHDA - Alice Longstaff Collection
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The Construction of Gorple Reservoir - ALC04770
Buildings, Construction, Gorple, Reservoir
Gorple Lower and Upper Reservoir was completed in 1934 and has a capacity of 227.42 million gallons.
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
1930s
Formerly BT613
PHDA - Alice Longstaff Collection
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ALC04770.tif
Gorple Top Reservoir during drought, 6th August 1995 - DAH00165
Drought, Gorple, Reservoir, Reservoirs
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Dianne Harwood
PHDA - Dianne Harwood Collection
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Gorple Bottom (lower) Reservoir during drought. 6th August 1995 - DAH00164
Drought, Gorple, Reservoir, Reservoirs
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Dianne Harwood
PHDA - Dianne Harwood Collection
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DAH00164.tif
Gorple Bottom (lower) Reservoir during drought, 6th August 1995 - DAH00163
Drought, Gorple, Reservoir, Reservoirs
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Dianne Harwood
PHDA - Dianne Harwood Collection
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DAH00163.tif
Gorple Top Reservoir during drought, 6th August 1995 - DAH00162
Drought, Gorple, Reservoir, Reservoirs
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Dianne Harwood
PHDA - Dianne Harwood Collection
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DAH00162.tif
Reaps Cross with Gorple reservoir behind. 1995 - DAH00159
Colden, Feature, Gorple, Landscape, Places, Reaps Cross, Reservoir, Reservoirs, Stone, Stone Cross
Near the top end of the Colden Valley on a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway, part of the original medieval causeway which can still be followed up to the broken cross which was repaired in 2002 by local residents.
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Dianne Harwood
PHDA - Dianne Harwood Collection
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DAH00159.tif