Bankfoot Mill is still there but Eaves Mills, above the Church, have gone as has Bankfoot Lower Mill. The tower of Heptonstall Church can be seen behind Hell Hole Rocks. Bankfoot Garage has been built. Original loaned by Gail Hartley, Elphaborough…
The road entering the photo bottom left is Church Lane. After the sharp left hand bend it passes Bank Terrace and Glen view and is known locally as ‘Mytholm Steeps’, further up becoming Badger Lane as it reaches Blackshawhead.
The parish church of St James is in the centre of the picture. In the middle distance is Lumb Bank, the former home of Ted Hughes, with the houses of Slack on the skyline.
Bottom left St James Parish Church and to its right Mytholm Hall, demolished 1969. Centre foreground Adelaide Street and above it the chimney and Calder Mill, the mill was destroyed by fire in 1964. To the right of the mill the western portal of…