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I took this photo on Tuesday 9th November 2021. This is at Burnley Road, White Lee, Mytholmroyd.
Hard to believe its June but you have to take the opportunity when it presents itself! Running just once a week the Doncaster Belmont to Killoch Colliery is currently diverted via the Calder Valley route due to the S&C being closed, seen here approaching Mytholmroyd station.
37884 passes Caldene, Mytholmroyd with 7E34 Preston to Lindsey empty bitumen tanks. 1st August 1994. I suspect that this shot is still available, although anything other than a Shed would be a stroke of luck!
Northern Rail Sprinter DMU's 150215 and 153331 are seen departing from Mytholmroyd station with the 09.20 Chester to Leeds service.
Mytholmroyd is undergoing major changes to help make it more resilient to flooding. Part of that involves the shortening of this terrace by two houses to allow the river channel to be widened.
The 10.20 from Leeds to Southport is in the hands of Class 142 Pacers 142095 and 142089 and the service is seen calling at Mytholmroyd at 11.12am.
Running between Luddendenfoot and Mytholmroyd today with westbound Drax empties is GBRf Class 66 No. 66705 'Golden Jubilee.'
Driving from Sowerby to Mytholmroyd today was enriched by the sight of this rainbow. My phone camera does not really do it justice.
A Class 110 DMU is pictured between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, forming the 11:55 Manchester to York service. 28th February 1987. This particular unit had a Class 108 centre trailer, to increase passenger capacity. One or two sets were reconfigured like this, but the majority remained two-car units throughout the 80's until their sad demise.
The plaque is mounted on the front facing wall of the house where Ted Hughes was born on 17th. August 1930, No 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 following the death of John Betjeman (Philip Larkin had declined an invitiation), following his death aged 68 years in 1998 he was followed in this ancient post by Andrew Motion, looking it up I see that the first Poet Laureate was one Richard Canonicus appointed by King Richard I at the end of the 12th. century, not all laureates who followed are much remembered or read today, Ted Hughes will I fancy and hope, be an exception.
JAGUAR
The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun.
The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut
Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut
Fatigue with indolence, tiger and lion
Lie still as the sun. The boa-constrictor's coil
Is a fossil. Cage after cage seems empty
Or stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw.
It might be painted on a nursery wall.
But who runs like the rest past these arrives
At a cage where the crowd stands, stares, mesmerised
As a child at a dream, at a jaguar hurringy enraged
Through the prison darkness after the drills of his eyes
On a short fierce fuse. Not in boredom -
The eye satisfied to be blind in fire,
By the bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear -
He spins from the bars, but there's no cage to him
More than to the visionary his cell
His stride is wilderness of freedom:
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel
Over the cage floor the horizons come.
Ted Hughes 1930-1998.
Taken at White Holme Reservoir just above Mytholmroyd. It has a bit of a sandy, rocky shoreline just right for a couple of Ringed Plovers and a pair of Sandpipers. It was difficult getting anywhere near them and even harder trying to capture them as they took off !
A two-car Class 110, formed of cars E51842 & E51828, stilll to be seen on Calder Valley passenger services at the time, despite the advent of Sprinters, leaves Mytholmroyd while working 2E25 15:57 Southport to Scarborough. 17/7/89.
Dedicated Calder Valley Northern 158 No. 158759 leaves Mytholmroyd for Manchester Victoria on 10 July 2019.
Mercedes Sprinter
The company stretches its roots back to around 1889 (exact date not known). Its name was chosen ''Royd Ices'' due to the establishment of the premises being in Mytholmroyd, known in short by locals as “Royd”, hence the name.
Starting off in a small premises as manufactures/retailers, the selling was done with the aid of horse and cart, later adding tricycles. The local streets of Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge, including a couple of pitches, is where it all began.
"See the beauty of your own countryside in comfort" says this wee leaflet as it advertises one of the two countryside sightseeing tours that thus municipal operator ran in the 1950s and '60s. It was part of quite a common movement for municipal operators to 'do' tours of their boroughs at the time including some that were not noted for their scenic beauty! But Halifax was one of the fortunate in that the town was, and still is, surrounded by some splendid moorlands offering panoramic views across the Pennine valleys. This version of the tour, taking 2.5hrs, covered many of the town's 'joint committee' routes and ran via Wainstalls, Booth, Peckett Well, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd before the long climb up through Cragg Vale and almost to the county boundary before it was downhill all the way to Sowerby Bridge.
With the low evening sun casting a nice rosy glow on it, 156461 leaves Mytholmroyd while forming the 17:05 Liverpool Lime Street to York service. 14/4/91.
1998 Ford Transit 150
The company stretches its roots back to around 1889 (exact date not known). Its name was chosen ''Royd Ices'' due to the establishment of the premises being in Mytholmroyd, known in short by locals as “Royd”, hence the name.
Starting off in a small premises as manufactures/retailers, the selling was done with the aid of horse and cart, later adding tricycles. The local streets of Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge, including a couple of pitches, is where it all began.
White Lee Bridge on the Rochdale Canal in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet width. The canal runs for 32 miles (51 km) across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire. As built, the canal had 92 locks. Whilst the traditional lock numbering has been retained on all restored locks, and on the relocated locks, the canal now has 91. Locks 3 and 4 have been replaced with a single deep lock, Tuel Lane Lock, which is numbered 3/4.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester. Brindley proposed a route similar to the one built, and another more expensive route via Bury. Further progress was not made until 1791, when John Rennie was asked to make a new survey in June, and two months later to make surveys for branches to Rochdale, Oldham and to a limeworks near Todmorden. Rennie at the time had no experience of building canals.
The promoters, unsure as to whether to build a wide or a narrow canal, postponed the decision until an Act of Parliament had been obtained. The first attempt to obtain an act was made in 1792, but was opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. Rennie proposed using steam pumping engines, three in Yorkshire, eight in Lancashire, and one on the Burnley Branch, but the mill owners argued that 59 mills would be affected by the scheme, resulting in unemployment, and the bill was defeated. In September 1792, William Crosley and John Longbotham surveyed the area in an attempt to find locations for reservoirs which would not affect water supplies to the mills. A second bill was presented to Parliament, for a canal which would have a 3,000-yard (2,700 m) tunnel and 11 reservoirs. Again the bill was defeated, this time by one vote. The promoters, in an attempt to understand the mill owners' position, asked William Jessop to survey the parts of the proposed canal that were causing most concern. Jessop gave evidence to the Parliamentary committee, and on 4 April 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and authorised construction.
Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £291,000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £100,000 if required. The estimate was for a narrow canal, whereas the act authorised a broad canal, and so the capital was never going to be adequate. The summit tunnel was abandoned in favour of 14 additional locks saving £20,000. Jessop proposed constructing each lock with a drop of 10 feet (3.0 m), resulting in efficient use of water and the need to manufacture only one size of lock gate.
The canal opened in stages as sections were completed, with the Rochdale Branch the first in 1798 and further sections in 1799. The bottom nine locks opened in 1800 and boats using the Ashton Canal could reach Manchester. Officially, the canal opened in 1804, but construction work continued for more three years. A 1.5-mile (2.4 km) branch from Heywood to Castleton opened in 1834.
Apart from a short profitable section in Manchester linking the Bridgewater and Ashton Canals, most of the length was closed in 1952 when an act of parliament was obtained to ban public navigation. The last complete journey had taken place in 1937, and by the mid 1960s the remainder was almost unusable. Construction of the M62 motorway in the late 1960s took no account of the canal, cutting it in two.
When an Act of Parliament was sought in 1965, to authorise the abandonment of the canal, the Inland Waterways Association petitioned against it, and when it was finally passed, it contained a clause that ensured the owners would maintain it until the adjacent Ashton Canal was abandoned. Discussion of the relative merits of restoring the canal or the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 1973 led the formation of societies to promote both schemes in 1974. The Rochdale Canal Society wanted to see the canal fully re-opened, as part of a proposed Pennine Park
The Rochdale Canal Society worked hard both to protect the line of the canal and to begin the process of refurbishing it. A new organisational structure was created in 1984, with the formation of the Rochdale Canal Trust Ltd, who leased the canal from the owning company. The MSC-funded restoration was approaching Sowerby Bridge, where planners were proposing a tunnel and deep lock to negotiate a difficult road junction at Tuel Lane, so that a connection could be made with the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The entire eastern section from Sowerby Bridge to the summit at Longlees was open by 1990, although it remained isolated from the canal network.
In 1997, the Rochdale Canal Trust was restructured, in response to announcements that there might be large grants available as part of the millennium celebrations. The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit. The restructuring would allow the Trust to take over responsibility for the canal from the Rochdale Canal Company. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and in order to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal. As restoration proceeded, boats could travel further and further west, and the restoration of the sections through Failsworth and Ancoats were a significant part of the re-development of the north Manchester districts. The restored sections joined up with the section in Manchester below the Ashton Canal junction, which had never been closed, and on 1 July 2002 the canal was open for navigation along its entire length.
A bird’s eye view of Mytholmroyd seen from a local hill - Scout End, as 31468 passes with 6E02 10:28 Castleton to Healey Mills "Departmental", 1st February 1989.
Work on restoring Mytholmroyd's old three storey booking hall proceeds apace. Recently four elegant chimneys in old style have been installed. Now work on window frames is taking place, while the inside will retain the old booking office. Alas it seems uinliklely to be used by passengers as there is no lift and also health and safety issues.