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Undated postcard but this photo appears on another card date stamped August 1910. Just a short way up The Drive from Gibson Mill was John and Emma Greenwood's 'Hardcastle Chalet' tearoom; behind it was the river and the pool created by weir was a…

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Postcard with August 1907 postmark. 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…

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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…

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Postcard with a 1993 postmark but the photo is pre-1904. The weir is upstream from Gibson Mill and it created a popular bathing pool just below. On the right is the mill pond which is fed by the weir.

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Postcard date stamped September 1910. First in a series published by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway using this photo promoting cheap fares to Hebden Bridge for trips to its surrounding beauty spots. The promotional message on the reverse…

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Postcard with May 1915 postmark. It was one of a series of cards published by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway promoting days out to the Beauty Spots of Hebden Bridge by cheap trains. The promotional message printed on the reverse reads:…

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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.

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Postcard with November 1906 postmark. The weir upstream from Gibson Mill and the pool it created was a favourite bathing spot below Greenwood’s ‘The Chalet’ tearoom, which is just visible through the trees.

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The cottages, now demolished, were a little way downstream from Gibson Mill on the other side of the river, on what today is the path down from the National Trust top car park on Widdop Road. The cobbles seen here are still there.

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Undated postcard. The cottages, now demolished, were a little way downstream from Gibson Mill on the other side of the river on what today is the track from the top (Widdop Road) National Trust Car Park. The tenant of the lefthand cottage, like many…

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Postcard with February 1909 postmark. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an…

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Postcard with August 1936 postmark but the same photo is used on a 1929 card. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme…

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Undated postcard. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an ‘entertainment emporium’…

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Postcard date stamped December 1929. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an…

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Undated postcard. A former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an ‘entertainment emporium’…

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Postcard with illegible date stamp but prior to the cottages becoming the Lord Holme Restaurant. The former mill workers' cottages are in the yard of Gibson Mill, officially Lord Holme Mill, a water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle…

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Undated postcard addressed to "Little Percy Walters" exhorting him to be a good boy.

The Greenwood's ‘Lord Holme Restaurant’ in one the Lord Holme Cottages in the yard of Gibson Mill, officially Lord Holme Mill, a former water powered cotton mill…

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Undated postcard. Gibson Mill is a former water powered cotton mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags it was built early 19th century by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and officially known as Lord Holme Mill. The mill was converted into an…

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Undated postcard. The path seen here drops down from the Drive a few hundred metres beyond Gibson Mill to a bridge over Hebden Water and the river path back to Gibson Mill.

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Undated postcard. View looking in the direction the Gate Lodge and Midgehole.

The Drive, built by Lord Savile in the mid-19th century, runs the length of the Crags from the Lodge at Midgehole, past Gibson Mill, to Lord Savile's shooting lodge at…

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Postcard with August 1925 postmark. Looking over New Bridge, Midgehole, up to Crimsworth Dean. Bottom left the roof of New Bridge Mill, a former water powered cotton mill, and centre right the entrance to the Crags.
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