Looking down on Midgehole towards Crimsworth Dean and the entrance to Hardcastle Crags.
On the left foreground is New Bridge Mill, a former fustian manufacturing mill, water powered but supplemented by steam in times of drought. By the late 1890s…
Looking down the valley in the direction of Hebden Bridge. The signage on the building far right is advertising refreshments so as to be seen by visitors walking down Midgehole Road on the other side of the river.
NEW BRIDGE spanning the Hebden near the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is a stone bridge of one arch built probably in the middle of the eighteenth century.
NEW BRIDGE spanning the Hebden near the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is a stone bridge of one arch built probably in the middle of the eighteenth century.
In the centre is New Bridge Mill a former water powered cotton mill looking here in a rather derelict condotion. Bythe late 1890s the upper floor was converted into Lello's Tea Rooms catering for the thousands of visitors who came to Hardcastle…
Undated postcard. Looking up Crimsworth Dean with Midgehole and New Bridge Mill bottom centre of the picture and the Lodge and gates to Hardcastle Crags above.