Huddersfield Station c.1900 - DNT00276
Cable Gantries, Cabs, Chimney, Colonnades, Horse-drawn Carriage, Horses, Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, L&YR, LNWR, Portico, Railway, Railway station, Station Building, Tram Lines
The magnificent Grade I listed station building; the imposing frontage was described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid in England' and Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be one of the best stations in the country. Its grandeur owes much to the influence of the Ramsden family who owned most of Huddersfield at the time it was built in 1846/50 and who insisted that it reflect their status. The station was operated jointly by the London & North Western Railway and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and they each had their own Booking Offices in the pavilions at the end of the colonnades which extended out from the central block with its giant portico. Above their respective pavilion is the company’s crest but in place of the LNWR's it is that of the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway who had promoted the line prior to becoming part of the LNWR.
In the foreground are lines of the Huddersfield Corporation Tramways which operated between 1883 and 1940. Steam locomotives were initially used to pull the tramcars but the system was electrified in 1900 and electric trams started to run in 1901; the cable gantries can be seen here but it doesn’t appear if the cables had then been installed.
In 1968 the station building was purchased by Huddersfield Corporation to save the town’s finest building from threatened demolition.
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Todmorden Show, 1973 - TNC00220
Agricultural show, Agriculture, Event, Horses, Todmorden
Thomas Newell
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1973, 1970s
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Height Road, Wadsworth - WSC00226
Dry Stone Wall, Farms, Field, Horses, Moorland
The gable end immediately behind the horse is Middle Nook.
W. Shepherd
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Heptonstall from Wadsworth. - WSC00224
Church, Dry Stone Wall, Fields, Heptonstall, Horses, Houses, Moorland, Places
Probably taken from Nook Lane looking over Lane Ends Lane and Ibbotroyd Clough.
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Carriages outside The Old White Lion Hotel - ALC01454
Cobbles, Hebden Bridge, Horses, People, People at Leisure, Public Houses, Pubs Inns & Hotels, Taverns, White Lion Hotel, landau
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Carriages outside The Old White Lion Hotel, 1907 - ALC01453
Cobbles, Hebden Bridge, Horses, People, People at Leisure, Public Houses, Pubs Inns & Hotels, Taverns, White Lion Hotel, landau
From Mrs Carol Mosley (nee Astin). Some detail as to the people shown in the photographs might be useful. The four people seated in the 'landau' are my great grandparents on my father's side. On the left are John Astin (then a fustian manufacturer in Hebden Bridge) and his wife Emma and on the right are Benjamin Sykes (then landlord of the White Lion) and his wife Hephzibah. I am unable to put a name to the young girl standing between the two couples. The people in and standing near the larger vehicle on the other photograph seem again to be from the two families (Astin and Sykes) and I wonder if either or both photographs are linked somehow to the wedding of my grandfather and grandmother (Wilbert Astin and Sarah Sykes), which took place 31st July 1907. If this is the case these photographs were really 'hot off the press' as they are both postmarked with the date 2nd August 1907. Whilst the men are wearing buttonholes their outfits are not the same as they are seen wearing in the wedding photographs, which I have. Perhaps it was an engagement celebration of some sort.
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Mytholmroyd Gala, 1993 - PAK00458
Event, Events, Gala, Horses, Mytholmroyd, Places, horse drawn
Gordon Oldfield preparing to take part in the parade.
Ann Kilbey
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