Walking the Camera in the South Pennines

Stuart Paulley

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781398472747
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

The South Pennines covers the hill country between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, easily accessible but less well known than other walking hot spots. This is an area of high moorland with deep, often wooded valleys and drained by fast-flowing rivers such as the Colne and Calder. Early textile industry took place in isolated farms and small collections of houses dotted around the countryside, where income from farming often marginal land was supplemented by handloom weaving; the workshops often ran along the top storey of a terrace of cottages with the typical rows of mullioned windows. There were so many of these isolated settlements with people needing to travel between them and to the cloth markets, such as Halifax's magnificent PIece Hall, that there is a dense network of footpaths, so inviting for exploration on foot. Later, textile production moved to water-driven mills, now abandoned but providing a unique landscape as they are being reclaimed by nature, such as at Crimsworth Dene or Healey Dell. Steam power using the plentiful water and coal resources meant that huge factories could be built for textile production; these are themselves now being adapted for other uses, including housing such as the Titanic Mill at Slaithwaite. Stuart and his wife Jean spent many hours walking the paths and byways of this magical area, with Stuart's camera recording the many beautiful and interesting sights they encountered. This book is a testament to a couple's love of rambling for almost 40 years in the magical South Pennines.

Table of contents

• Walking the Camera in the South Pennines
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Uppermill
• Healey Dell Viaduct, Rochdale
• Inquisitive Cows, Digley Reservoir
• Blackstone Edge, Littleborough
• Colne Valley from the Golcar Lily
• Kirklees Light Railway
• Tunnel End, Marsden
• Birch Wood near Meltham Mills
• Bus Stop
• Holmfirth Roofs
• Castle Hill, Huddersfield
• Rochdale Canal at Walsden
• Oak Wood
• Step Stile
• Lower Holme Valley
• Whit Friday Band Contest
• Sailboarder at Watergrove Reservoir
• April Evening at Golcar
• Crimsworth Dean
• River Tame
• Heather at Digley Reservoir
• Leeds and Liverpool Canal
• Quadruplets?
• Woodpecker at Etherow Country Park
• Meadow at Catley Lane Head
• Autumn Moors, Piethorne
• Hollingworth Lake from Milnrow
• Autumn at Hebden Bridge
• Smallshaw Farmhouse
• Pendle
• The Way up to Withens Gate
• Savile Park, Halifax
• Transhipment Warehouse, Marsden
• Castle Vale Park, Todmorden
• Castleshaw
• Hebden Water
• Horse Near Pecket Well
• Upper Worth Valley
• ‘Roman Road’ Blackstone Edge
• Dandelion Flowers
• Clouds over Yorkshire
• Hepworth Church
• Mute Swan
• Cannon Hall Park
• Path at Hepworth
• Calderdale
• Canada Geese
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• Alderman
• Bluebells at Hardcastle Crags
• Standing Stones at Almondbury
• Huddersfield Broad Canal
• Hollingworth Lake
• Packhorse Route
• Obelisk in Calderdale
• Wagtail
• Cragg Vale
• Vaccary Walling
• Wycoller Clam Bridge
• Morton Wood
• Medlock Valley
• Bronte Country
• Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
• Werneth Low, Hyde
• Nature Lovers’ Delight…
• Chew Valley
• Poppies and Daisies
• Scapegoat Hill
• Nook Gate Reservoir
• Crimsworth Dean Again
• Tandle Hill
• Blacko Water
• Cliviger Gorge
• And Finally…