Steep Lane Sowerby
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60cm x 90cm
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Sowerby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was an important settlement long before Halifax began to dominate. The ancient district of Sowerbyshire, a stretch of forest centred around the town leading down the Ryburn and Calder valleys and almost up to Halifax, was a Royal chase. From this point you can see Wainhouse Tower on the right of the image
View from Baitings Reservoir
60cm x 90cm
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Baitings Reservoir lies in the valley of the River Ryburn. When the water level falls low, the old road and the bridge across the Ryburn Valley are exposed. It was begun in 1948, and opened on the 14th November 1956 by the the Mayor of Wakefield. The cost of building the dam was £1,420,000.
Blackstone Edge Road
60cm x 90cm
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Part of the Le Tour route Blackstone Edge road is part of the famous climb out of Mytholmroyd on the B6138. Popular with cyclists practicing for the never ending slopes of the Alps or Pyrenees, this stretch has the longest steady incline of any road in England: 286m over five-and-a-half miles.
Krumlin
50cm x 60cm
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Nearly 50 years on people still love to talk about the ill-fated 1970 Krumlin Pop Festival which some said was destined to be the Glastonbury of the North. This is where it all happened!
Footpath Triangle
50cm x 70cm
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This path runs from Triangle to Sowerby through Lower Breck Farm.
View of Stoodley Pike from Sykes Gate
57cm x
92cm
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The monument replaced an
earlier structure, started in 1814 and commemorating the
defeat of Napoleon and the surrender of Paris.
It was
completed in 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo , but
collapsed in 1854 after a lightning strike, and decades of
weathering
Stoodley Pike
69cm x 95cm
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Stoodley Pike is a 1,300-foot hill, noted for the Stoodley Pike Monument at its summit, which dominates the moors above Todmorden. The monument was designed in 1854 by local architect James Green, and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War. The monument replaced an earlier structure, started in 1814 and commemorating the defeat of Napoleon and the surrender of Paris. It was completed in 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo.
View of Stoodley Pike from Sykes Gate
57cm x 92cm
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The monument replaced an earlier structure, started in 1814 and commemorating the defeat of Napoleon and the surrender of Paris.
It was completed in 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo , but collapsed in 1854 after a lightning strike, and decades of weathering.
Height Road Hebden Bridge
55cm x 90cm
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From this vantage point you can see both Stoodly Pike and Heptonstall Village which is on the route of the Calderdale Way.
Sowerby Bridge
60 x 90cm
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After 1820 numerous public buildings were constructed in Sowerby Bridge, testifying to its growing prosperity, this included a privately funded town hall with clock tower, however the building was never used by the council.
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Dean Clough
75cm x 90cm
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Dean Clough is a group of large factory buildings built in the 1840s60s for Crossley's becoming one of the world's largest carpet factories, half a mile long with 1,250,000 square feet of floorspace. The Grade II listed site for used for various commercial and cultural uses. It is now seen as a leading example of successful urban regeneration
70cm x 50cm
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Triangle Allotments
70cm x 50cm
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Following the Inclosure Acts and the Commons Act 1876 the land available for personal cultivation by the poor was greatly diminished. To fulfil the need for land, allotment legislation was included. The law was first fully codified in the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908, it was modified by the Allotments Act 1922 and subsequent Allotments Acts up until 1950. Under the acts a local authority is required to maintain an "adequate provision" of land, usually a large allotment field which can then be subdivided into allotment gardens for individual residents at a low rent.
Elland Bridge
64cm x 90cm
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With industrial growth in the 19th Century, the
population of Elland expanded rapidly and working practices
changed, as work in mills and factories gradually replaced
textile manufacture in the home. In addition to the
manufacture of woollen and cotton cloth, industries in the
area over the years have included quarrying, coal-mining,
brick-making, engineering and sweet-making. To the left of
the bridge is the Britannia Buildings, a former bank which
has at the apex of the pediment, a large figure of
Britannia. Floodwater washed out the foundations of the 1811
bridge and caused severe structural damage and a crack in
the road surface on 29 December 2015, the bridge has since
been rebuilt.
Rose Bank King Cross
50cm x 63cm
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During the First English Civil War Halifax was a Royalist stronghold, with King Cross as a key outpost, on the roads between Lancashire and West Yorkshire, with the Parliamentarians holding parts of the Calder Valley. Prior to 1850 the area consisted of small hamlets and agricultural fields, in the parish of Halifax. With the onset of the industrial revolution, through the 18th and 19th centuries, the population steadily grew and King Cross was made a separate parish in 1845.
The Piece Hall
34cm x 75cm
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The Piece Hall has had many roles throughout its long history. Built for the trading of locally made, hand-woven pieces of woollen cloth, its original purpose disappeared with the coming of industrialisation. By 1815, the building was being used as venue for political meetings and public spectaculars including novelties such as balloon flights and tightrope walking.
Ripponden
60cm x 85cm
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Ripponden is situated on the River Ryburn. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is the site of a Roman settlement, and there is a Roman Road over nearby Blackstone Edge, a rocky ridge of Millstone Grit. On the afternoon of Sunday 6th July 2014, the world's greatest cycle race and largest free spectator event Le Tour de France passes through the village.