House, mid C17 with early C18 alterations and additions. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights. Hoodmould with decorative label…
House, mid C17 with early C18 alterations and additions. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights. Hoodmould with decorative label…
House, mid C17 with early C18 alterations and additions. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights. Hoodmould with decorative label…
House, mid C17 with early C18 alterations and additions. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights. Hoodmould with decorative label…
House, mid C17 with early C18 alterations and additions. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights. Hoodmould with decorative label…
House, mid C17 with early C18 alterations and additions. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights. Hoodmould with decorative label…
On the left the small Booking Office looking here decidedly closed. On the right the timber passenger facilities on the up platform. The steps connecting the two platforms can just be made out from the the down platform at the end of the Booking…
LYRS 4540 - 1951. General view of platform, buildings, canopy and goods yard looking towards Mytholmroyd as Stainer 4-6-0 5MT. No. 45201 approaches. The station closed to passengers in 1962 and to goods in 1965.
LYRS 2762 - About 1900 with a ‘permanent way ganger’ on the track. The Manchester ‘up’ platform with its timber buildings was accessed by a footbridge from the Leeds ‘down’ platform and it continued under the road bridge at the top of Station Road. …
LYRS60286. 1963 and the then recently closed Goods Shed, now demolished, looking up the line towards Mytholmroyd from the road overbridge. Part of the 'up' platform just visible on the left.
LYRS60 The site is now mixed use but the stone gate pillars remain but not in their original position and a distance apart. Note the Victorian postbox in the wall.
St Mary's church, now demolished, is just visible on the right. In the foreground is the aqueduct taking the Rochdale Canal over the River Lud. The building on the left, the former Mechanic's Institute, now Barley Wine; the building beyond this has…
The Goods Yard about 1900. The small town was dominated by its mills with the all important and well equipped goods yard between the main line and the river. The yard closed in 1965 and the site is now an industrial estate.
Photo courtesy Stephen Gee…
View from the north hillside across Station Road to the coal drops and the goods yard. Date unknown but the station closed in 1962 and the goods yard in 1965. The only evidence there once was a station here is in the name 'Station Road'.