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Holmbridge maps
Historic maps of Holmbridge and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Holmbridge maps
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Holme| Holmfirth| Meltham| Shepley| Slaithwaite| Marsden| Milnsbridge| Kirkburton
Holmbridge area books
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Memories of Holmbridge
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View From Cliff
View from Cliif across to Quarryfields. showing Hightown Lane and Wood Lane, with Holt Lane at the top and Holt Farm.
Holme Valley Memorial Hospital
View showing Holme Valley Memorial Hosital (in centre of picture).
Tramping Over Holmfirth Moss to The Youth Hostel
I remember a winter walk in early winter 1966 with a group of friends from Manchester YMCA. We took the bus out to the Pennines and went for a wet, misty and boggy walk over the top towards the Holmfirth Youth Hostel. Our feet kept sinking into calf deep squelchy mud and it was tough slow going!
The TV mast appeared out of the mist and helped us to get our bearings! We were so glad to reach the warmth of the YHA where we cooked ourselves supper in the self-caterers' kitchen!
Back in those days the YHA wardens would stamp your membership card to show you had visited their hostel and it was quite fun accumulating a collection of colourful and artistic stamps!
Peace And Open Spaces.
I remember opening my front door and looking around at the beautiful views I could see. I could walk 100 yards in any direction and be in fields. The peace and quiet, and the views were outstanding. It took my breath away. I would go for walks in wind, snow, rain and sunshine. It's the most beautiful place to be, just to sit and listen to the peace and quiet. I'd gaze down to the village of Holmfirth and surrounding scenery. I lived there for 7 years. It broke my heart to leave. It is the most beautiful place to visit and to live. I went back in 2001. The place hasn't changed much. Still quiet and peaceful. The scenery still beautiful. It's like you belong to another world, when you are there. I'm not surprise that 'The Last of the Summer Wine' is filmed there. And a few miles away 'Where the Heart Is'. I'll always remember it with happy thoughts.
Holmfirth
I think it was 1976 when our dad took us to Holmfirth. He loved watching 'Last of the Summer Wine' which was filmed there. As we were children we sat in the back and watched the hills coming closer and closer. Dad drove careful up the steep hill and down into the small town. After parking we went to see Nora Batty's and Compo's houses. We went to Sid's cafe and followed the path up the steep steps, along the back. After we had sandwiches in our car we went around the church graveyard and up the hill that way. The sights from the top was brilliant and it was peaceful. Sadly we lost both our parents. Bill is dead as are a few more of the stars. We visited two years ago, we had not been there since we was young. My sister and I had our two boys with us. It was so commercialised. I was shocked. There was too many new stores, crowded and hardly any parking. I... Read more
History of Netherthong
I am currently researching and writing a history of Netherthong and I have well over 200 photos and other ephemera. I have started numerous chapters relating to such subjects as schools, parish council, churches, sport, entertainment, clubs and activities, role of Netherthong lads in the war and as further information becomes available I add, revise and update. Because NT in the early days was a very small village, there is little information available. One of my ongoing chapters is titled Odds and Bods and I list it below. Whilst writing and researching this history I kept coming across items of information that were either entertaining, informative or relevant to the times that NT was growing up in but they didn't seem to fit comfortably into any of the main chapters. This chapter seems as good a place as any for them. One feature of the Holmfirth Express was how it combined news both local, national and international along with sport and detailed reports of social activities. In the early days it was... Read more
Netherthong Public Houses - Part 1
This chapter is a work in progress and as it is more than the 1000 words allowed in this memory, I have split it into 2 sections. The current title is : Public House, inn, alehouse, tavern, pothouse, beer house, boozer, local, gin palace, saloon, honky-tonk, shebeen, snug, taproom. No township or hamlet could hold its head up high unless it had a number of the above establishments and Netherthong was no exception. From the early times Netherthong has boasted a total of 5 named public houses plus a further two in Thongsbridge, which for a long period was part of the parish of Netherthong. There was also a number of un-named beerhouses located at Deanhouse, a beer-house being licensed to sell beer but not spirits. The earliest reference to inns is in the 1848 Directory which listed the Clothiers, Queen's Arms, and the Rose & Crown but there can be no doubt that one or more of the three had to have been in... Read more
