Tennis was one of the many sports and activities which were a popular feature of Birchcliffe Baptist Church. The only clues to the date and setting of this photo are an address at Wood End, Hebden Bridge, and the signature of Herbert Greenwood on the…
Burnley and District Sunday School League Charity Cup Winners.
Back row - Will Greenwood, Billy Coulton, Stephen Crowther, Gordon Whitehead (trainer), Geoffrey Newham (goalie), Stanley Coulton, Peter Brownbridge, Joseph Jackson (Reserve?).
John Longstaff is seated in centre, wearing a light coloured suit. Having won the trophy the choir disbanded. Photo taken in the playground of Riverside School.
From Pennine Magazine, Vol 2, No 5, June-July 1981:
In 1903 as part of the Keighley Gala a walking match took place. It was a robust occasion with publicans of the vicinity donating something to nearly everybody: H. Town of the Star of Steeton…
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,