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Our guided walk led by the Elmet Trust round the local places associated with Ted Hughes our Poet Laureate 1984-1998 arrived here following a visit to his birthplace at No 1 Aspinall Street Mytholmroyd, we have moved on up the Bankside hill to Redacre Woods which played a great part in the poet's early development. Here in the woods above Mytholmroyd Gerald Hughes and his ten years younger brother Ted came to play their imaginary games of red-Indian trappers and scouts, they even had a tom-tom drum hidden in the undergrowth the better to send messages to the tribes across the valley! Ted and Gerald were very close all their lives and it was here in these woodlands and the moors above them that the first stirrings of two lifelong inextricably-connected emotions so memorably made real in Ted Hughes; came alive - that of the hunter-killer, which in turn informed the muse of the poet. Gerald was Ted's guide as his poem "Two" acknowledges and is tribute. Gerald emigrated to Australia when Ted was about eighteen years of age, he was the "guide who flew up from the pathway" and Ted was "The other" who "swayed".
TWO
Two stepped down out of the morning star,
The grouse glowed, they were stolen embers.
The dew split colour.
And a cupped hand brimmed with cock-crows.
Two came down with long shadows
Between the dawn's fingers
With the swinging bodies of hares
And snipe robbed of their jewels.
The stream spoke an oracle of unending,
The sun spread a land at their feet.
Two dropped from the woods that hung in the sky
Bringing the scorched feet of carrion crows.
And the war opened -
a sudden yelling
Ricocheted among the huddled roof-tops.
The guide flew up from the pathway.
The other swayed.
The feather fell from his head.
The drum stopped in his hand.
The song died in his mouth.
Ted Hughes 1930-1998.
I took this photo on Thursday 7th October 2021, in Mytholmroyd. A view from County Bridge, Mytholmroyd, looking towards the confluence of the River Elphin with the River Calder. Notice the Heron on the stones next to the water.
2007 Mercedes Sprinter 311cdi
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.
Northern Rail Class 153 Sprinter DMU 153324 leads Class 158 Express Sprinter 158793 towards Mytholmroyd with the 11.28 service for Chester.
1999 Ford Transit 120
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.
47320 is seen at Caldene, near Mytholmroyd with 6E71 11:00 Bredbury to Wakefield Cobra loaded "bins". 21/10/87.
1989 Ford Transit 120
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.
= "Roberts Bridge" is located in the County (province) of East Sussex in Southern England.
= At the time my Wife and Her family travelled all the way by British Rail Steam Train from the Railway Station at "Hebden Bridge" here in West Yorkshire via "Leeds" and Kings Cross Railway Station in "London" then the Underground rail system to Charing Cross Railway Station (also in "London") from which they then caught a British Rail Steam Train direct to "Robertsbridge" Railway Station which my Wife recalls as being a very small country Railway Station - BUT a very busy station with Commuters to "London" and "Brighton" via "Lewes". - regretably "Robersbridge" Railway Station closed many years ago !!!
= In the above photograph taken looking East along Erringden Road at " Mytholmroyd" My Wife is seen with two of Her Friends and neighbours at the time.
= Thje large car with the running boards and exterior spare wheel case was a Taxi run by the McDermondy Family who was resident at the house next to the Taxi at the time.
= The other car is thought to have belonged to a Manager for "Martins Bank" (at the time regarded as "The Farmers Bank") who lived for many years near where the smaller car is parked - IT should be well noted that at the time that this photograph was taken only 5 occupants of the houses on Erringden Road had privately owned motor cars !!! !!! !!!
= N ote.>>> Also that there is a distinct lack of telerphone wires as v ery few private households had a private telephone for their own persobal use in their houses.
= NOTE ALSO.>>> the lack of television ariels of any kind !!! !!! !!! as prior to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second on the Second of June 1953 - when the Queens Husband to be Prince Philip of Greece insisted that the event be televised to the Nation - at the time television sets had very small screens and was very expensive !!!
= However my Wife and a load of other neighbours crammed into the front (sitting room/lounge) of the house where the little boy (Depicted) with the bike lived (a very popular young man at the time no doubt ??? !!!) to watch the Queens Coronation which for the very fgirst time ever for a British Coronation was being screened live form "London".
= The three wheeletr bike in the background is outside that then very popular house and was the boy depicted sisters road machine !!! !!! !!!
= The surface of Erringden Road at the time appears to have a Tarmacadam (Blacktop) surface which was VERY rare for the roads to private houses until many years later !!!
= The house in which my Wife parents lived was purchased by Her Fathers Parents when there was a mass build on that part of " Mytholmroyd" - many people can still remember when the entire area was all Farmland - and next to it - all the way to "Hebden Bridge it still is !!! !!! !!!
2004 Ford Transit 90 T330
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.
Bronica SQ-Ai w/ 80mm f2.8. Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 developed in Tetenal ColorTec. This tree has big rusty metal plates fixed to both sides for some reason.
Crawling through Mytholmroyd on a westbound Calder Valley freight is Class 66/7 No. 66726 'Sheffield Wednesday' in torrential rain. I thought it would be fun to try a picture in heavy rain and luckily this train was going slowly in the gloom, following a late-running d.m.u. The nameplate is similar to those carried by the B17 'Footballers.'
The shops on the left were seriously affected by flooding on Boxing Day 2015, The blue sheeting is where the Post Office used to be (removed in 2016 to widen the river channel).
"A good fire" a spectator observed as this former clog factory burned. It was under threat of demolition with a planning application in to demolish and replace with 11 houses. Sited on the river Calder it is / was both a substantial and dramatic building. A great loss to the industrial heritage of the north. See pictures here before the fire www.flickr.com/photos/46833951@N04/30873837657/in/datepos...
Prior to the introduction of new Northern trains, platforms on stations in the Calder Valley, which were cut back some years ago,. are now being extended. Such are the ways of our railways.
Seen at Mytholmroyd, these Sprinters are the regular power on this long distance service from Leeds to Southport. Early morning weak sunshine made exposure a challenge.
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.
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.
56077 passes Caldene, Mytholmroyd with 6E56 Fiddlers Ferry to Healey Mills empty MGR. 7/2/89. Heptonstall Parish Church is visible on the skyline.
Where a tractor has pulled into this waterlogged field it's gouged over foot deep tracks in the mud.
2007 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 209cdi
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.
St John in the Wilderness
The foundation for the Church was laid on 15th March 1813.
The Church was consecrated in 1817. It accommodated around 250 worshippers.
In 1838, White wrote that the chapel was ..."so indifferently built that its roof has once fallen in and is now supported by props".
The present Church was built in 1839 at a cost of £2,130 part-funded by the Million Pound Act. Charles Child was involved in the construction. The sandstone for the Church was quarried at Clattering Stones. It accommodated around 800 worshippers. The organ, by Wards of York [1821], was brought from Square Independent Chapel, Halifax. Details can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register. The Brontë family often visited the Church.
Hinchliffe Hinchliffe and his family supported the Church. Mrs Hinchliffe gave a lectern. Mr Hinchliffe gave the organ costing £400 in memory of his 2 sons. He and his daughter, Helen, gave a chancel window in memory of Mrs Hinchliffe. When the Church controlled the area, the vicar had the power to demand that people in the Cragg Vale Inn attend his Church services. The Church was in the Parish of Halifax before becoming independent in 1844.
A figure of Christ – The Lord in Glory – was carved by Harry Percy Jackson, and two pairs of gates were carved by his son, Harry Percy Jackson. Jimmy Savile, an acquaintance of Rev David Bennett, was made an honorary churchwarden here in 1967. Graves of the Hinchliffe family are prominent in the churchyard.
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66718 heads 4M51 Drax to Liverpool empty biomass into Mytholmroyd - 19/02/2016. Taken from roughly the same position as this excellent photograph by Michael McNicholas :
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