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Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd - DEF00144
The boyhood home of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998.
Burnley Road School 1935 - DBC00140
Ted is second row, dark jacket, 5th from right. Donald is 7th from right, wearing spectacles. Ted's sister Olwyn is in the third row down, sixth from the left.
Burnley Road School, 1937 - DBC00107
Coronation Pageant. Ted Hughes is fourth from the left in the back row.
Burnley Road School, 1937 - DBC00121
Ted, in dark clothes, playing the part of a nobleman, is to the left of the bigger boy with the cushion. Last but one girl on the right is Barbara Gibson, she married Russell Dean. A bespectacled Donald Crossley is front left, playing the part of a…
Canalside Mill at Mytholmroyd - DBC00143
Formerly occupied by Broadbent Machine Tools. This mill reminded Donald of Ted Hughes' poem 'Under the world's Rim'.
Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor - DBC00103
Also known as Churn Milk Peg and Savile's Low, this stone is located on Midgley Moor. It is a 6' 9" high stone pillar - probably originally placed as a boundary marker. The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year's Eve. It is said to…
Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor - DBC00104
Also known as Churn Milk Peg and Savile's Low, this stone is located on Midgley Moor. It is a 6' 9" high stone pillar - probably originally placed as a boundary marker. The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year's Eve. It is said to…
Cricket 'Pavilion', Mytholmroyd - DBC00132
Mytholmroyd Methodists CC pavilion, Scout Road.
Now sadly demolished and no longer used as a cricket ground.
Now sadly demolished and no longer used as a cricket ground.
Cricket 'Pavilion', Mytholmroyd - DBC00133
This is Mytholmroyd Methodists' pavilion (on Scout Rd, Mytholmroyd). The building was used as a changing rooms, home on one side, away on the other.
The photo was probably taken in the 1980s, and out of season judging by the trees.
Now…
The photo was probably taken in the 1980s, and out of season judging by the trees.
Now…
Cricket Match at Mytholmroyd - DBC00125
Painting by Donald Crossley
Disused Mill at Mytholmroyd - DBC00142
Formerly occupied by Broadbent Machine Tools. This mill reminded Donald of Ted Hughes' poem 'Under the world's Rim'.
Filming in Redacre Wood - DBC00127
L to R: George Wilding, Lloyd Greenwood, Stanley Boocock and Nick Wilding. On the site of the ancient Briton's grave. Gabriel Wilding took the photograph.
Gerald, Olwyn and Ted Hughes - LLG00107
Ted, or Teddy as he was known to his friends, wanted to go by the name of E.J. Hughes. Ted Hughes, 1930 to 1998.
In The Times, 20th February, 2016, Alan Johnson wrote: The future poet Ted Hughes and I were good friends at Mexborough Grammar…
In The Times, 20th February, 2016, Alan Johnson wrote: The future poet Ted Hughes and I were good friends at Mexborough Grammar…
Looking down on Mytholmroyd - DBC00118
Calder High School is on the extreme right of the picture, with Bankfield Estate in the centre.
Lower Colden Valley, Hebden Bridge - PNH01428
A deep ravine with many early industrial remains. The chimney is virtually all that remains of Lumb Mills. The house on the hillside is Lumb Bank, formerly the home of the poet Ted Hughes, now the home of the Arvon Foundation, a residential centre…
Moorland Track - DBC00138
Image to illustrate Ted's words 'There come days to the hills'.
Mount Zion Chapel, Mytholmroyd, 1950 - DBC00115
The building on the left was the Co-op, to the right of it is No 1 Aspinall Street. Mount Zion Chapel has since been demolished. The bridge over the canal was known as 'Navie Brig'.
Mount Zion Methodist Chapel, Mytholmroyd, 1950 - ALC06378
The war memorial plaque to the right of the pulpit is now in Scout Road chapel.
Mytholmroyd - DBC00105
Inspiration for 'Cock Crows' by Ted Hughes
