Looking down over Midgehole. This Post Card from the "Lion" Series has been hand coloured (no colour film at the time). The postage required is 1/2d or 1d if foreign.
Looking up towards Hardcastle Crags. Far right Peckett Well War Memorial on Smeakin Hill. In the valley bottom New Mill at Midgehole is just discernible and the white building diagonally above it in the woods is Cosy Corner Guest House, now site of…
Horse-drawn charabanc by the Lodge at Midgehole at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags. As seen here they were usually pulled by a four-in-hand team of horses. They could carry a large number of passengers this one has over twenty. Introduced from…
The charabanc is leaving Midgehole going towards Hebden Bridge. The road to the left goes down to New Bridge, and the mill when this was taken, and the road on the right to Hardcastle Crags gates. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society…
Lee Mill, a cotton mill in the Hebden Valley and Dog Bottom, c1910. Seen here looking up towards hardcastle Crags. The mill was demolished in the 1960s by which time it was disused,
Undated postcard. Although the postcard is captioned ‘Old Bridge’ it is in fact New Bridge at Midgehole below the entrance to Hardcastle Crags; the angle of the camera has hidden from view the buildings on the right of the river bank. Old Town Mill…