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Wheat Ing, Hardcastle Crags - STW00138
Multi view postcard
Walshaw Bridge, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH00654
Postcard dated February 1906. The stream runs down from Walshaw Head to Hebden Water in Hardcastle Crags.
Walking up Keighley Road, Hebden Bridge - WMH00102
Undated postcard. Visitors walking up Keighley Road to Hardcastle Crags from the railway station early 20th century. All in their Sunday best for a day out in the country! At weekends and particularly at holiday times visitors to Hardcastle Crags and…
Walkers in the Crags - STW00178
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Wader's Corner, Hardcastle Crags Hebden Bridge. - WMH00699
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?
View Near Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags - HLS01185
From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900.
Thorntons Tea Rooms, Hardcastle Craggs - ALC08267
Known locally as "Cosy Corner".
Thorntons Tea Rooms, above Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH01055
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…
Thornton's Tea Rooms, Hardcastle Crags - MCH00135
Also known at sometime in the past as Cosy Corner. It is the present site of the Halifax Scout's hostels and camp site.
Thornton's Tea Rooms, Hardcastle Crags - LLG00483
Labelled as "Thornton's Tea Rooms, Hebden Farm, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge". Also known as Hebden Hey and Cosy Corner.
The Weir, Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH00507
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.
The Weir, Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge - WMH00521
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.
The Weir and Chalet, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH00510
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.
The Tennis Court, Hawden Hall Holiday Camp, Hardcastle Crags, He - WMH01102
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…
The River Hebden at New Bridge, Midgehole - STW00115
On the right the Lodge at the gates to Harcastle Crags and on the left New Bridge Mill. By the time of this photo the upper floor of the mill had been converted into Tea Rooms advertised on the gable end.
The River Hebden at New Bridge, Midgehole - STW00114
The path in the centre is part of the old Packhorse route from Heptonstall crossing over the bridge here and then climbing up the hillside to Pecket Well.
The River at Blake Dean - WMH00732
Undated postcard. Looking upstream, the remains of the supports for the trestle bridge can be seen.
The Pavilion, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH01006
Postcard with August 1913 postmark. The Pavilion Tearoom, about 250 metres downstream from Gibson Mill on the opposite bank of the river, was one of several refreshment facilities in and around Hardcastle Crags catering for the thousands of visitors…