The Tennis Court, Hawden Hall Holiday Camp, Hardcastle Crags, He - WMH01102
Building, Dam, Feature, Forest, Hall, Hardcastle Crags, Hawden Hall, Hebden Bridge, Holiday Camp, Landscape, People, People at Leisure, Postcards, Tea Room, Woodland, Woodlands, Woods
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 February 1817. After the First World War it was turned into Hawden Hall Holiday Camp and Tea Rooms by William (Billy) Holt. The old whitewashed farmhouse has now been demolished and the barn behind it renovated and now known as Hawdon Hall.
At the bottom of the parh down to the tennis court on this photo can be seen part of the dam which used to feed New Bridge Mill at Midgehole, demolished 1950s.
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William Henwood
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Cosy Corner and Camp Site, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH01061
Cosy Corner, Feature, Forest, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, Hebden Dale, Hebden Hey, Holiday Camp, Landscape, Postcards, Tea Room, Visitors, Woodland, Woodlands, Woods
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 visited the ‘Beauty Spots of Hebden Bridge.’ It became known as Thornton’s Tea Rooms after the First World War it was developed into Cosy Corner Guest House and Cafe with the camp site and a refreshments kiosk. The view here is looking down Lee Wood Road in the direction of Hebden Bridge
Today it is the site of Hebden Hey scout hostels.
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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William Henwood
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