My Yorkshire

I was born in Doncaster, but after a brief sojourn in Northampton and Liverpool moved to Hebden Bridge, in the West Riding. I spent a lot of time wandering around with my camera, and this page reflects some of the things I saw. I will update it as I scan in more images, so please keep visiting.

Here is a link to my father's pictures.

If you click on one of the small pictures on the left, a larger picture (around 50K) will be loaded.

This view from the Heptonstall Road shows the town and the canal winding its way towards Mytholmroyd
This is a view of a snicket or ginnel going up towards Birchcliffe Road.
I seemed to have a lot of footpaths in my first batch of pictures. I think this one is on the way up to the moors between Colden and Haworth.
Behind the Nutclough pub there was a picnic site, and a beatiful valley leading up towards the Old Town.
Nut Clough had a large mill lodge to supply water to Nutlough Mill. This is a view towards the mill.
Sometimes, in life, we come to a point where we have to make a decision. A footpath on the Hollings hillside, One path goes to Hollings, another to Heptonstall and the one on the left to Foster Lane.
The pupils of the local school re-enact the Pace Egg plays every year at places around the valley. This one was in George Square in Hebden Bridge.

A view along the Rochdale canal taken whilst travelling from the Stubbing Wharf towards Hebden Bridge.

Most people walk from the railway station to the clog factory along the canal bank, but a little up the hill is this delightful walk at the other side of the railway line.

I walked up to Horsehold one day, and instead of turning right towards Stoodley Pike went left towards Cragg Vale and came acrpss this view towards Mytholmroyd, and the railway running towards Sowerby Bridge. A colleague thought the railway was single track, and imagined we had trains the size of houses!

This isn't Stoodley Pike but a smaller imitation at the top of Crimsworth Dean. The village in the foreground is Midgehole. The woods are commonly called Hardcastle Craggs, though there is really no such place.

This is Old Town, high on the hills above Hebden Bridge. The mill is (curiously enough) called old town mill.

Much older than Hebden Bridge town, Heptonstall stands on the end of a spur of land, facing Old Town across Hebden Water.

The terrace in the foreground is where we used to live. On the moors above can be seen Old Town mill. After I'd finished working on the house in an evening I would walk up the hill to the Greyhound at Old Town.

At the bottom of our terrace was Foster Mill. This was demolished a few years ago to make way for little boxes, and I find this black and white photograph captures the atmosphere much better than a colour one.

Hebden Bridge is famous for its top and bottom houses, and this is a photo I took of the end of our terrace. The road on the right is Windsor Road, and the houses there are built on top of the houses in Windsor View which is the road on the left.

The next few pictures were added after a discussion on the subject of moors in Yorsksgen, the Yorkshire genealogy group. A lady wanted to take photographs of moors at night, and so I dug aout a few of my 'moors' photographs. One of them is of Dartmoor, so not Yorkshire at all!

I'm not sure where this is - it could be the Calder Valley looking towards Mytholmroyd, or it could be the upper vally above Todmorden. The shiny line is the canal.
I took this because I liked the warm evening sun on the millstone grit of the houses, and the slight mist over the valley.
This shows the outline of what I believe is a stone-age settlement on Dartmoor - as it's not Yorkshire I may not leave it here for long.
This is a view from above Old Town, with Heptonstall Church on the right. You can, if you wish, lighten the picture to get more detail of the landscape, but you then lose the glowering effect of the sky.

As you can tell this is very much a work in progress, and these pages will constantly be updated as I scan in more images

If you find these images a bit dark, please let me know, one of my viewers shows them OK but the other makes them look very dark.

	This view from the Heptonstall Road shows the town and the canal winding its way towards Mytholmroyd
	This is a view of a snicket or ginnel going up towards Birchcliffe Road.
	I seemed to have a lot of footpaths in my first batch of pictures. I think this one is on the way up to the moors between Colden and Haworth.
	Behind the Nutclough pub there was a picnic site, and a beatiful valley leading up towards the Old Town.
	Nut Clough had a large mill lodge to supply water to Nutlough Mill. This is a view towards the mill.
	Sometimes, in life, we come to a point where we have to make a decision. A footpath on the Hollings hillside, One path goes to Hollings, another to Heptonstall and the one on the left to Foster Lane.
	The pupils of the local school re-enact the Pace Egg plays every year at places around the valley. This one was in George Square in Hebden Bridge.
	A view along the Rochdale canal taken whilst travelling from the Stubbing Wharf towards Hebden Bridge.
	Most people walk from the railway station to the clog factory along the canal bank, but a little up the hill is this delightful walk at the other side of the railway line.
	I walked up to Horsehold one day, and instead of turning right towards Stoodley Pike went left towards Cragg Vale and came acrpss this view towards Mytholmroyd, and the railway running towards Sowerby Bridge. A colleague thought the railway was single track, and imagined we had trains the size of houses!
	This isn't Stoodley Pike but a smaller imitation at the top of Crimsworth Dean. The village in the foreground is Midgehole. The woods are commonly called Hardcastle Craggs, though there is really no such place.
	This is Old Town, high on the hills above Hebden Bridge. The mill is (curiously enough) called old town mill.
	Much older than Hebden Bridge town, Heptonstall stands on the end of a spur of land, facing Old Town across Hebden Water.
	The terrace in the foreground is where we used to live. On the moors above can be seen Old Town mill. After I'd finished working on the house in an evening I would walk up the hill to the Greyhound at Old Town.
	At the bottom of our terrace was Foster Mill. This was demolished a few years ago to make way for little boxes, and I find this black and white photograph captures the atmosphere much better than a colour one.
	Hebden Bridge is famous for its top and bottom houses, and this is a photo I took of the end of our terrace. The road on the right is Windsor Road, and the houses there are built on top of the houses in Windsor View which is the road on the left.

	I'm not sure where this is - it could be the Calder Valley looking towards Mytholmroyd, or it could be the upper vally above Todmorden. The shiny line is the canal.
	I took this because I liked the warm evening sun on the millstone grit of the houses, and the slight mist over the valley.
	This shows the outline of what I believe is a stone-age settlement on Dartmoor - as it's not Yorkshire I may not leave it here for long.
	This is a view from above Old Town, with Heptonstall Church on the right. You can, if you wish, lighten the picture to get more detail of the landscape, but you then lose the glowering effect of the sky.