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Markenfield Hall view from the North - HLS05851
Slide 6 - This view shows the two light transom windows with arched heads which light the Banqueting Hall on the north side. Between them rises a chimney stack, with ornamental cresting on the summit. This only served the room in the undercroft, now…
Markenfield Hall, the Kitchen - HLS05852
Slide 7 - The kitchen is most picturesque with its great fire-arch, its deeply recessed windows, its old fashioned furniture, and its well kept and well furnished dresser.
Markenfield Hall, portrait of Mr Robert Foster - HLS05853
Slide 8 - It was Mr Robert Foster, the tenant who occupied the Hall and 500 acre adjoining farm, who allowed Mr George Hepworth to photograph both inside and outside this interesting building.
Markenfield Hall, the Chapel - HLS05854
Slide 9 - Ascending the modern internal wooden staircase, we enter the old Banqueting Hall. The walls of this room are covered with paintings, mostly portraits of the ancestors of members of the Grantly family, the present owners of the…
Markenfield Hall, Piscina in the Chapel - HLS05855
Slide 10 - To the right is an aumbry and a piscine. The photograph of the latter show the Markenfield arms surrounded by an oak spray, while above is a crocketted canopy, of 15th century character.
Markenfield Hall, Doorway to House in courtyard - HLS05856
Slide 11 - The Markenfield arms are also to be found on the terminal of the label mould of a doorway on the eastern range of buildings facing the courtyard.
On the whole the spirit of medieval times seems to brood over the exterior of Markenfield,…
On the whole the spirit of medieval times seems to brood over the exterior of Markenfield,…
Hebden Bridge - Looking North from Palace House Road - HLS05041
HLS05041. View across the town and up Hebden Dale. Right foreground the old abattoir and top left the tower of Heptonstall Church.
Heptonstall Old Church from a drawing in 1845 - JCA00208
HLS05156. The church, dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett, first dates from the mid-13th century but was re-constructed and enlarged on several occasions over subsequent centuries. By the mid-19th century it was structurally in poor condition and then…
Hebden Bridge - Town Centre View about 1880. - HLS05015
Notice the washing hanging in the gardens of the houses on New Road,
Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe and Stubbings Hillside C1880 - HLS05017
Foster Holme from Lee Wood possibly about 1890 with Nutclough Mill and chimney; tin tabernacle is left of centre.
Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe Hillside C1880 - HLS05020
View from Gibraltar, Keighley Road, looking over Nutclough about 1890. Top left the old Birchcliffe Chapel.
Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe Hillside. - HLS05021
View from Moss Lane probably early 1890s. On the hillside on the left the Stubbings estate built during the 1880s and climbing up the hill Cliffe Street and above that Blenheim Street. Nutclough Mill has extensions to left and right.
Hebden Bridge - Princes Bridge. - HLS05022
Princes Bridge on Station Road over the Rochdale Canal with Machpelah Works above it. Date unknown but the bridge was widened following years of requests to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.
Hebden Bridge - Victoria Bridge. - HLS05025
Victoria Bridge carries Station Road over the Calder; it was built in 1855 replacing a timber trestle bridge built for the station in 1839/40. The weir was to direct water to the wheelhouse for Mayroyd Mill. Just visible in the background Queens…
Hebden Bridge Station by A. F. Tait - HLS05026
One of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. To the left of the station the trestle bridge carrying the station road over the Calder and left…
Hebden Bridge Station - Extract from A. F. Tait's Lithograph - HLS05027
Enlarged extract from one of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. Seen here the small station building on the 'Leeds line' is almost hidden…
Hebden Bridge from Horsehold Road c.1885. - HLS05028
This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
Hebden bridge - Palace House c.1880. - HLS05031
Nothing to do with a 'palace' but a derivation from Pallis House i.e. the house of the 'palliser,' the person responsible in the middle ages for maintaining the fence around Erringden Deer Park. The house is now demolished.
Hebden Bridge from the Heptonstall Hillside. 1881. - HLS05032
General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
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Hebden Bridge from the Heptonstall Hillside. 1881 - HLS05033
General view down the valley with left centre the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
Hebden Bridge from Weasel Hall - HLS05034
View across the town late 19th or early 20th century prior to the building of Riverside School in 1908. Bottom right is Central School following enlargement in 1895. Looking up the river beyond the second bridge the Council Offices built in 1897/8.…
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - HLS05035
Date unknown but seemingly prior to the building of the Council offices in 1897/8 but after the enlargement of the impressive Co-op building with its clock tower in 1889, seen here behind Hope Baptist Chapel.
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield about 1885 - HLS05038
General view up Hebden Dale. Top left Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel, opened 1840, and centre right dominating the vista is Foster Mill and in the far right is Crossley mill.
Hebden Bridge - Hangingroyd Area from above Royd Terrace. - HLS05039
Terraced housing in the Hangingroyd area with above, top right, Nutclough Mill showing the extensions on 2 sides, and to its right Keighley Road climbing up but prior to the construction of its retaining wall. The two chimneys in the centre are R B…
Hebden Bridge - Stubbing Holme and King Street from Eaves Wood - HLS05040
An unusual view looking up the Calder Valley towards Calderside Mill with its tall chimney and the railway crossing Whiteley Arches. The road to the right is Burnley Road into King Street. To the left between the Calder and the Rochdale Canal are the…