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Title: Hebden Valley, Hebden Bridge - WMH00158
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Hebden Valley, Hebden Bridge - WMH00158
Description
Undated postcard. Looking down the valley towards Hebden Bridge with Lee Mill and the mill dam, to its left is Lee Mill Road and left of that Midgehole Road. Heptonstall Church is on the skyline. Lee Mill was a former cotton mill and was demolished in the 1970s and the dam subsequently filled in and the area is now housing.
Phil Parker recalls: “My father was a loom overlooker at Lee Mill in the 1940s and 50s. Tragically he found two young boys who had drowned in the dam. They lived in the cottages on Lee Mill Road where my father lived as a boy. We used to play there as youngsters around the dam, through a tunnel and have picnics in the field by the dam. My grandma lived in the cottages until she passed away in the 1950s.”
Phil Parker recalls: “My father was a loom overlooker at Lee Mill in the 1940s and 50s. Tragically he found two young boys who had drowned in the dam. They lived in the cottages on Lee Mill Road where my father lived as a boy. We used to play there as youngsters around the dam, through a tunnel and have picnics in the field by the dam. My grandma lived in the cottages until she passed away in the 1950s.”
Creator
Lilywhite
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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Rights
PHDA - William Henwood Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
WMH00158.tif
Collection
Citation
Lilywhite, “Hebden Valley, Hebden Bridge - WMH00158,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 24, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/33729.
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