The Lost HECKMONDWIKE & LIVERSEDGE SPEN Stations - What Remains?

[@WmDavidHarrison]

Another interesting glimpse into railway times-past. It's a shame that so many sizeable communities lost (both) their stations but in the 50s, 60s and 70s the car ruled and railways lost their customers and purpose. If only they had survived a little longer they may have started to thrive again. Heckmondwike, Cleckheaton, Liversedge, Gomersal, Birstall, Gildersome ... such grand Yorkshire names! Keep adventuring!

[@keithyboyOiiOii]

Love the old History of our railways 👌

[@blackbirdmark495]

The concrete post that you thought was a cable pulley post was in fact a Gradient Marker post - a method of displaying the Gradient to the locomotive train crew & the track workers. Great video & keep up the good work.

[@havingalook2]

All those brick arches and roads above - BEAUTIFUL.

[@martinmarsola6477]

As always, thanks for the tour. Cheers buddy.

[@abhniccoinnich]

I lived here full time from 1967 until 1980 and on and off after that as my parents lived in Heckmondwike until their deaths in 2013. I had absolutely no idea that ANY of this existed! Thank you!

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to help.

[@douglasfleetney5031]

Hmm, for Column Base read Old Lorry Wheel. Other than that WOW! Really enjoyed that and am looking forward to the next part. I'll not push for the L&Y line, you said you will do it and that's good enough. Thanks for posting and again WOW! Brilliant series.

[@AdventureMe]

I would agree, but it was concrete and metal.

[@terryc8164]

Those bridges and house almost in the tunnel, what an amazing sight. Will seek them out when possible again. Thanks for a great video.

[@grantbassett2048]

Brilliant indeed!!! Amazing whats hid away locally with out knowing. Keep it up D & team. Keep safe and well. Grant 👌

[@suzieh4962]

Nice video as always, liked the drone footage and absolutely love the way you piece together old pics with the current location, completely brings it to life.

[@andiholman2543]

I used to work for Curry’s and a few weeks ago I installed a washing machine to the very first house in this video. Funny thing is that I recognised it from a previous video of yours and took a look over the drop from the garden to the tunnel trackbed. It’s a small world.

[@sarahboys7715]

brilliant a walk on there regular

[@NJBamforth67]

Was Brilliant. I work at Heckmondwike James Wilby transport. But I'm really impressed with your History xx

[@alg6576]

Your work is on old sidings.

[@abhniccoinnich]

Also, when i was learning the Lord's Prayer I thought for a long while that the words were "Lead us not into Spen Station"!

[@AdventureMe]

Love that.

[@aniwilliams3370]

I love this! 😍. My husband, as a child. also used to think God’s name was Harold … ‘Our Father, who art in heaven; Harold be thy name … ‘ 🥰💕

[@jordylyons4648]

Fantastic editing mate👋❤️

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@Tuberuser187]

Gorgeous stonework in that cutting.

[@AdventureMe]

Sure is

[@gillyfleur1888]

Loved this. I have only just very recently discovered these amazing tunnels and struggled to picture what roads were above me! Now I know! Thank you!

[@suesmith4366]

Loved it it 😎 ended too soon though 😔 it’s really bringing the Leeds New Line life.

[@AdventureMe]

Plenty more to come.

[@jonathanhall7334]

Yes I agree it ended too soon fascinating story of a forgotten line which should never have closed

[@AshOutdoors]

Brilliant video, still love the old vs new overlays. Top work Darren, looking forward to the next one 👍🏻

[@hoppinonabronzeleg9477]

Wow! Darren your videos just get better & better, you are doing more for tourism than most local councils! The fades are amazing, plus the drone footage, it really brings it home. This should be a cycle way, though I have heard some in the Spen valley are a NO -GO area, due to muggings! Are you able to take advantage of airspace restrictions at LBA because of COVID? 7:20 Looks like the front wheel off a wagon. (Probably Ford!) Bet you that is pressed steel? HOABL

[@AdventureMe]

I can't fly anywhere near the airport even if closed, the app on the drone wont let me. With regards to the wagon wheel. That's what I thought, but it's concrete.

[@bobsrailrelics]

That must be almost unique. Great find.

[@tracya4087]

we really really enjoyed that , loved the then and now photos , really something , in our home town of wigan it was a spider web of railways and industry . thanks again , please don t stop

[@kevinparkin5438]

Hi Darren glad that you enjoyed Heckmondwike i told you it was full of little bridges anyway glad that you have covered it thank you looking forward to next weeks Kevin

[@shirleylynch7529]

Fabulous vlog. So interesting. These tunnels and bridges are amazing. Packed full of history as always Darren. Well done. Great artefacts you found as well. Thank you. Heckmondwike such as unusual name. Old photos and music quite moving.

[@Stu_Yorkie]

Brilliant video series !!! 👍 It would be fantastic to see the history of Spen Valley Greenway filmed like this

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Stu. Keep your eyes peeled.

[@andrewfirth7457]

My great grandparents used these lines alot. My Dad also recalls catching a train from Heckmondwike central to Blackpool as a child. The cut was a regular location where he and his mates played and my grandmother still lives a stones throw from the cut. Great video and thankyou for educating me on the history of The Spen area👍👌

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@johnlumley-moore2079]

Interesting as per usual .. Carry on...

[@stephenharper9961]

Amazing beautiful history, I love seeing this, I can't wait until I can come and explore myself 😌😊

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MrKristiano77]

Cracking video 👍 iv lived around these parts all my life and remember the old lines being down and the old fuel depo in liversedge, you've done a good job here Darren 👏

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍 More to come soon.

[@posegroup6177]

Cherington Hargreaves oils just off ledes Road. New housing estate now

[@michaeldibb]

Really enjoy you videos, love the before and now merges shots,. Very well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you like them!

[@frogandspanner]

1:11 The chasing to let the stairs into the ashlar suggests that the wall was designed and built without the stairs in mind, and that they were a later addition.

[@AdventureMe]

Most probably yeah. Although the bridge at the top was home to the entrances on both sides.

[@petedenton9434]

That hollow between the two bridges you mention around 6' 40" in reminds me of the bridges taking the railway over the road at Mirfield station.

[@simonmcowan6874]

Brilliant brilliant, at 10 30 the concrete post was a gradient post, the upright-ish steel posts were i think to take signal wires.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for clearing that up Simon.

[@Tez73]

Just brilliant ! Thank you

[@rwalker9644]

Fantastic details cheers Rob

[@cliveeariss880]

Love those bridges, very interesting video, well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Clive.

[@Mittac001]

I remember walking on the same stretch, when I was a kid. Though it did have a track and ballast at the time. You mentioned about the tanker terminal, which I do remember, think it was linked to a company called Roadways at some point. I grew up in Heckmondwike, and it was easier to use the track to get to and from Spenborough, than to walk the main road. Especially as I lived on White Lee.

[@mickd6942]

Will be riding the spen valley greenway in the next few weeks from low moor to Wakefield , now I’m going to divert to check out all those bridges

[@nigeltift6335]

Very enjoyable. Love the way you investigated things & thought the 80 houses was fascinating

[@Sim0nTrains]

After watching this, I wouldn't mind visiting Heckmondwike now to have a look at the area myself. Brilliant Video.

[@AdventureMe]

You should! It's worth a visit. Thanks.

[@JasonJohnson-yu8zf]

If you look at your last photo of Liversedge station you can see the access, it's the bit under the curved corrugated tin roof, looks like it was 2 sets of steps with a small flat separating them. You're in my school day stomping grounds, I lived on Jeremy lane and used Cook lane 4 times a day to get too and from school

[@khalidacosta7133]

I go cycling on the spen valley greenway, interesting to know the history of it! :)

[@Stu_Yorkie]

Definitely

[@Dwaine-ej7nm]

Great video as always Darren wish they were longer I would have loved to be around when they were in use take care 👍

[@AdventureMe]

I had loads of people saying they were too long lol

[@Dwaine-ej7nm]

@@AdventureMe I could watch them all day it's history that won't always be here better than tv mate 👍

[@AdventureMe]

@@Dwaine-ej7nm Glad you think so

[@100fires8]

Hi. I live near the liversedge line near the Toby jug pub listing lane where the old station was. My family all grew up here too and used the station alot. What I can tell you is the concrete roofed structure you spotted at around 10 to 12 mins was an air raid shelter not a subway. The entrance to the station was via listing lane. You can see on the wall where the opening would have been. The steps led up to the station with the air raid shelter accessed via them. So the air raid is effectively under the stairs that led up to the platform. What you might not have seen in the undergrowth are the wooden supports that would make up the structure to the platform. I've spotted quite a few of these. They all line up with where the platform would have stood. The station was entirely wooden, hence there being little evidence of it but like I say there are some joists still visible in the undergrowth. If you walk further on the line towards cleckheaton there's a tiny tunnel over the top of well street. Cobbles still visible underneath. I walk this almost every day.

[@dawnfensom8929]

My great grandparents owned the Toby Jug when it was called the Station Hotel!

[@100fires8]

@@dawnfensom8929 what were there names? My grandad used to go in there all the time. He will have been friends with them

[@ericholmes8665]

The station was reached by two covered stairways each side of the bridge,there is a superb overhead shot of the station Britain from Above the aerofilms archive EPW061319 1939.

[@a11csc]

been over/under most of them bridges,brilliant as usual darren

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Chris.

[@MarkDenson-ld8bf]

Thank you Darren really enjoyed it 😌

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Mark

[@frogandspanner]

It is interesting that a couple of street names in the bridge section have changed. Upper George Street used to be Bridge Street, and what is now Bridge Street used to be Grove Street.

[@AdventureMe]

Strange. Must be a reason for that

[@Adventures_with_Sog]

Very interesting and informative, thoroughly enjoyed watching this one my friend. 👍🙂

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to hear it!

[@algomaone121]

The house jutting into the tunnel is absurd. I noticed at the end of the last video that it has windows looking into the tunnel! Imagine the view.

[@AdventureMe]

I know. How strange.

[@judithsmith9274]

Brilliant as always. 🙂

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Judith.

[@stephenchild2310]

Another fascinating video. Thanks. If only all of the closed lines had been maintained as cycle routes/walking trails....today we'd have local folk as well as tourists from all over Europe using them. Especially the rural ones.

[@AdventureMe]

The good thing about the spen lines is that they are cycle routes, this one is in sections.

[@stephenchild2310]

@@AdventureMe I'll be sure to visit it. I don't live on the mainland so getting to interesting places is time consuming and expensive. I'm collating a list of out of the way places to see when I retire. Many of your videos are on my list.

[@michaelrender1584]

Another banger 🔥 mate keep 👌 them coming

[@WiggysanWiggysan]

Excellent video. Very informative.

[@socklesslad]

That bit with lots of bridges in a short space reminds me of Belper in Derbyshire. That isn't as easy to look at in detail as the line is still open but it's still just as weird!

[@RichardBrooke1971]

Thank you once again Darren. This is a great series. :)

[@michaelmiller641]

Very interesting, I would have thought that heckmondwite would be large enough to justify having a station still open!

[@AdventureMe]

We all agree, all the towns in the spen valley have lost both stations.

[@harri2626]

Another fascinating video, thanks. I seem to remember that, in the 1980s, there were proposals to reopen and electrify the Spen Valley Line from Low Moor to Heckmondwike and eventually Dewsbury. The plans for a West Yorkshire Transport Museum at Low Moor (later becoming the ill-fated Transperience Museum) included the operation of trams (modern and historic) along the valley. Needless to say, nothing came of this.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes apparently so. But nothing as you say.

[@None-zc5vg]

The last time I passed over what had been the Low Moor Dewsbury (sort of) line, the trackbed looked intact: maybe they can rebuild it into a Bradford-Wakefield line. The Leeds New line was apparently part of an 1880s/'90s double-tracking plan to give extra capacity between Leeds and Stalybridge/Stockport: the widening of the Stockport Viaduct was part of it. Plans to close it all must have been formed back in the '50s.

[@paulsteane4168]

Excellent presentation, I just wish I had seen it before I cycled through the area yesterday (05/06/2021), though of course I did see the bridges, tunnels and station sites. What is not well recorded is that a rail-served oil terminal survived at Liversedge Spen until 1986, it was just on the Heckmondwike side of Liversedge station. When the Spen line closed in the 1960s, a connection was put in by BR between the LYR and LNWR lines where they crossed, south of Heckmondwike. This allowed the oil terminal to continue to be served, from the Dewsbury end, but allowed longer lengths of track to be removed. I was on a railtour on 16/05/1981 that ran to Liversedge oil terminal, so of course also travelled through this Heckmondwike cutting. The tracks were lifted in the late 1980s.

[@ericholmes8665]

Yes, that was the last time a passenger train ran through the tunnels,it was called the Doncaster Rover,it was hauled by class "40" 40094 itself near the end of its life,it was withdrawn in October 1982.The oil terminal was on the site of Liversedge Spen goods yard and owned by Hargreaves fuel oils ltd.

[@hyper2high]

Thank Darren 👍great video

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@alg6576]

Brick arches replaced by Golden Arches these days. Great video as ever.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate.

[@trainsinkansas576]

Excellent. Meriden, Kansas

[@beverleyfletcher1738]

They rebuilt the houses they knocked down and they're still known locally as the Eighty Houses.

[@Martin4963]

Which houses were knocked down?

[@ericholmes8665]

They did not rebuild the houses,the eighty houses were built new under contract by the LNWR,they also built twelve identical houses at Batteyford to replace houses in the way of the station,at a cost of 349 pounds each,what are these 92 houses worth today!

[@stephenroberts7346]

The old alcove, or subway was actually a entrance with steps up to the station

[@dunc5946]

The alcove was for services, it’s only 5 ft , so was never a subway or station entrance, the cobblestone yard is being ripped up as I speak… progress eh!!!

[@keithhaynes9462]

It looks a really nice area

[@clecklass]

I took my partner's parents for a walk along this stretch whilst she was otherwise occupied - they were entranced at the experience of so many bridges in such a short walk.

[@OutandAbout1]

Thanks for sharing ,great vid 👍

[@AdventureMe]

No problem 👍

[@100fires8]

Also on the other line liversedge used to have another station on Halifax Road just above the lonsdale pub. What amazes me about this is that Halifax Road used to go straight over the tracks. They decided to re route the road and made a bridge at the bottom of headlands Road so that there was no longer a need for vehicles to cross the tracks. There is photo evidence of this both before and after the bridge was built. I have also found evidence of another air raid shelter here exactly where one of the entrances would be. I can also see evidence of an access point from the main road and there's even shiny tiles see visible so it gives you an idea of how it would be accessed. Further on the line would have been the coal mine. This is near a pathway known locally as the cage walk. There's quarry evidence as you walk on. Would love to walk on here with you if you ever go back just to pass on what I've learned over the years. Fascinated by it all.

[@100fires8]

Forgot to say, the old road that went over the tracks is still visible before it disappears into a yard. Appropriately called station approach. Still cobbled.

[@posegroup6177]

Hahaa I lived round here as a kid, my god the cage walk, would have never heard that name again in all my life till now!!! Used to sneak in the Lonsdale boozer to get served at 16..... and the shears......

[@100fires8]

@@posegroup6177 ha. Good to hear. Pleased to say both the Lonsdale and shears are still going strong. In fact I was only speaking to the new shears landlord yesterday.

[@posegroup6177]

@@100fires8 amazing I used to go to school (liversedge sec) with the son of the shears landlord but that was 41 years ago, and there's another pub up from it same side of road, across from the wreck were we played football but can't remember the name for life in me

[@100fires8]

@@posegroup6177 yes thats the cross keys pub. Again still going strong and so is the king George 5th playing fields you mention. Football played there every week. Nothings changed much around here. I also went to liversedge. Left in 95 and now my kids go there though its called spen Valley now and has changed alot. A couple of the old main buildings still the same but extended alot too over the years and merged with white lee school

[@jamesriley6315]

I think the item on the listings lane bridge is a concrete gradient post missing it's arms

[@helenheward1952]

My hometown.. ya forget what is on your door steps

[@catbreath007]

Lovely informative video as per usual 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@dizzydm7086]

Yes the structure off listings lane bridge is an air raid shelter there is a few around liversedge

[@AdventureMe]

Thought so.

[@peteallen4629]

Brilliant video , just a shame you didn't feature the Charington Hargreaves terminal in more detail , in steam days these trains were hauled by double headed 9Fs as they were heavy, and it was also the last section of the New line to be used well in to the 1980s.

[@JasonJohnson-yu8zf]

And in diesel era mainly 47s, a few 56s, one or two 37s and if you were really lucky a 40.

[@peteallen4629]

@@JasonJohnson-yu8zf class 45s too.

[@toxicclown3035]

Great video, as always. But I was a little confused by the map at 5.23. Looks like you have it rotated by 90 degrees?

[@JasonJohnson-yu8zf]

More like 180

[@AdventureMe]

It's the same map I used throughout the video .I'm confused.

[@toxicclown3035]

@@AdventureMe I was looking for your start point on Google earth and had a lot of trouble getting my bearings. I might be wrong but your north/south compass settings appear to be off.

[@AdventureMe]

It wasn't meant to be north/south view. It's a view of the route of the line covered in this video. And showing where I am in relation to the route.

[@oldmanvlogger9259]

I believe the concrete post at 10:30 in the video is a gradient marker post.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes apparently so. Thanks

[@Smithz175]

Great series, as always. Think I was down the Falklands with your mate Richie a couple of years ago 🤔 small world it is.

[@AdventureMe]

Most probably. He's an RAF man. He would love the catch-up.

[@Smithz175]

@@AdventureMe I've followed your videos for a while now and saw Richie and said to my wife I think I know him. She didn't believe me. I'll try find him to catch up. I am smiffy, was briefly on 1435 with him, although he was other shift (shit shift). Keep up the good work.

[@AdventureMe]

Drop him a message. facebook.com/richieconley37 He said smiffy doesn't narrow it down lol

[@peterfawcett9969]

Very good

[@peterfawcett9969]

The railway will have to return to many places, and they are doing as the roads cannot cope with the amounts of traffic.

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

Is it me or are some of those bridges at 3:19 a bit out of kilter? It looks like the line must've narrowed down to a single track or else it would never fit through one of those arches.

[@AdventureMe]

I think the camera gives that illusion. They are wider than they look.

[@GENERALWA5TE]

Love these videos, local history history should be taught in schools, so much on your door step you won't believe. May I ask, have you done any videos on the old train line that runs parallel next to the A650 and Hodgson Lane (There is a Railway Pub as well) I have tried following the route on Google Maps, and the line looks to go through where TNT warehouse is, towards A651 under a.bridge near Scruples Hair Dressers towards and through East Bierley possibly.ending at Low Moor station. It might have had something to do with the coal pits in Toftshaw (on another note here there is history there begging to be looked into as well 😂).

[@AdventureMe]

Hi Phil. Yes I've already covered that line extensively. The videos are all on my channel. Ardsley to Laisterdyke line.

[@fatlad5090]

that round thing is a wheel and tyre of a Bedford TK truck

[@AdventureMe]

That's what I thought, but it's concrete.

[@rosewhite---]

that column base is actuall ya truck wheel centre and the large outer may be a steel wheel for a farm machine - so it's sculpture.. 100 yards from the station were malt kilns. 100 yards other way was Harrison Lathes, Marsden's Engines, Firth Carpets, Co-op Goliath Boots, The Gas Works - all would need to have lots of freight moved in and out.

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

Seeing that house built over the end of that tunnel made me think is there any place where a railway line comes out of a tunnel and then crosses a road on a level crossing? Either currently active or long disused? Have you ever seen anything like that? It would be an unusual idea for a model railway layout wouldn't it? I bet no-one's thought of anything like that for a layout scene. Then again I could be wrong.

[@None-zc5vg]

I saw a clip of one on KZbin but the tunnel/crossing were in a faraway country.

[@ThomasJPitts]

The red brick structure on Listing Lane could’ve been an air raid shelter. A lot of the ones that survive around the area are made of red brick - one on Oxford Road in Gomersal, for instance.

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah we think it was now. It's almost been confirmed.

[@ericholmes8665]

If you would like to see the goods yard in detail look at Britain from Above the aerofilms archive EAW004533,34,35 in 1947. Liversedge Spen station,with a view of the L-Y station in the near distance in1939 EPW061319.

[@rontanser9369]

Very good interesting thank you so does Heckmondwike have no train services at all now..?

[@AdventureMe]

None at all Ron.

[@carlharris2808]

According to the internet Dewsbury is the nearest station 1.5 miles away

[@None-zc5vg]

A railway historian has written that the Victorian lines around Leeds and Bradford didn't get much local passenger patronage because most potential customers didn't have much reason to travel: they were 'stay-at-homes'. Once the lines had lost their freight business, they had no raison d'être. I believe the Leeds New line was only kept open as a useful non-stop 'extra-capacity' link to/from Huddersfield until the late '60s, after which it was considered surplus.

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

It makes a real change to see a set of videos without any excruciating finger click routines so I can actually listen to it as well as watch it without having to mute the sound and miss out on historical details.

[@AdventureMe]

Finger click routines?? You will have to enlighten me on that one so I know to avoid it.

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

@@AdventureMe It's a sound effect that has become an absolute obsession with producers of records, especially "house" music, and TV shows and adverts, and now online videos too, and there's a far too widespread idea going around across the whole western world that it's somehow supposedly "relaxing", but for some of us who suffer with absolutely appalling sensitivity disorders, like misophonia and autism, it can be absolute torture and totally impossible to listen to, and there's at least two other industrial heritage video makers here on youtube who keep using music with the appalling and excruciating clicking fingers effects. And if I make any videos for public viewing I won't be using any such effects, and it's the same with whistling too, that too is absolute torture for a lot of people. And the finger click effect suddenly became popular in 1990 and has become more and more of an obsession ever since and now it's an epidemic. And it was soon joined by whistling later on. And these effects keep getting played on disability videos too, making them impossible to listen to, that's discrimination by the very folk who claim to campaigning against such a thing.

[@ericholmes8665]

You have it a bit wrong about the goods yards,after the line closed the yard was taken over and used has an oil terminal served by a truncated bit of the line connected to the old Ravensthorpe branch.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Hope the next part features Gomersal tunnel!

[@AdventureMe]

The next two do.

[@hardlines2635]

A station in Wakefield has the platform in the middle.

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah they are out there. But quite rare.

[@paulholroyd7306]

The concrete and red brick remains look like a world war two air raid shelter to me. Similar to other ones in Cleckheaton, Gomersal and Birkenshaw

[@AdventureMe]

Yes they do. It was my afterthought.

[@billybuxtonleeds11]

Any post code as to where to start the walk from?

[@AdventureMe]

WF16 9DP. Start at the side of Old Hall and walk back towards Heckmondwike.

[@billybuxtonleeds11]

@@AdventureMe thank you 👍🏻

[@philevans4021]

7:36 that looks like a van/truck wheel to me

[@lancemumford3106]

7:38 is an old truck wheel.

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah apparently so. A sculpture.

[@Andrewjg_89]

I find that building a house next to a disused railway tunnel that once was a railway line can be quite scary and haunted. Anyway interesting video.

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah its very surreal.

[@Andrewjg_89]

@@AdventureMe I agree

[@JaneOO]

My mother who lived in Liversedge in the war thinks air raid shelter. She’s insisted I subscribe her to your channel too

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Jane. Say hi to your mum.

[@JaneOO]

@@AdventureMe Thanks! She told her brother who is now in Poland and he was very impressed

[@mickd6942]

The colonnade support was a lorry wheel centre

[@braggelbak]

GOOSEBUMPS! SO BEAUTIFUL! for anyone following Tartarian (the forbidden history). SHARE this on facebook. there are a number of sites looking for this. (what idiot built houses there.) Sigh!

[@roll_credits6136]

Great video! Slightly off topic... Please can you review a battered chip butty from KP’s Fish Bar - Middleton!? Guaranteed views!! ✨😁

[@AdventureMe]

haha I like the sound of that. Might just do that.

[@roll_credits6136]

@@AdventureMe It’s trending No.12 on here at the moment! Looking forward to it! 😎

[@DewiJones]

The colonnade base is actually a lorry wheel filled with concrete

[@AdventureMe]

That would explain it.

[@pamelagreenwood8280]

Whereabouts is this? Is it anywhere near the greenway?

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah, round the corner literally.

[@pamelagreenwood8280]

Crikey! Lived in Cleckheaton for nearly 20 years and never knew!

[@davidmarsden8008]

Benjamin Franklin is said have visited the “Old Hall”

[@davidmarsden8008]

He initially was an English ‘spy’ but changed his allegiance and became a founding father, he persuaded Priestly to go to the New World.

[@davidmarsden8008]

Even now, most people who live in Heckmondwike don’t realise they live above a honeycomb of railway lines.