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The canal outside Salterhebble lock in Halifax

Church Lane, Brighouse [Denham Place ~ car pack today]

Church Lane, Brighouse [Denham Place ~ car pack today]

Calder & Hebble Navigation | Sowerby Bridge - Brighouse

Church Lane, Brighouse [Denham Place ~ car pack today]

Mural for Bile Beans at bedtime to relieve constipation, headaches, biliousness etc.

While Bile Beans were initially pitched as a cure for biliousness, the influenza epidemic of 1899 was too good an opportunity to miss. A leaflet enclosed with the Beans stated that they were also a cure for cirrhosis of the liver, blackheads, and all female complaints, and later they were mainly targeted at women, using glamorous pictures that now appear incongruous with the unattractive product name. Although the leaflet said that the Beans did not include mercury, bismuth, or aloes, they did contain aloin – an aloe extract with laxative properties that is no longer considered safe because of its potential side effects. The other ingredients were cardamom, peppermint oil and wheat flour, with a black gelatine coating.

Salterhebble canal & locks

Salterhebble canal & locks

Salterhebble canal & locks

Salterhebble canal & locks

Salterhebble canal & locks

Calder & Hebble navigation

Salterhebble canal & locks

Salterhebble canal & locks

Salterhebble canal & locks

www.collett.co.uk/hebble-navigation

Believed to be the largest individual civil engineering project ever undertaken by Calderdale Council, Collett deliver four steel bridge sections to form the new link road across the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

Manufactured by Severfield, Collett were appointed to deliver four 48 metre structural steel bridge sections from their facility in Bolton to the A629 Salterhebble Bridge project in Halifax.

www.collett.co.uk/hebble-navigation

Believed to be the largest individual civil engineering project ever undertaken by Calderdale Council, Collett deliver four steel bridge sections to form the new link road across the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

Manufactured by Severfield, Collett were appointed to deliver four 48 metre structural steel bridge sections from their facility in Bolton to the A629 Salterhebble Bridge project in Halifax.

Grade II listed building on the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

Walking along the Hebble Trail a footpath along the route of a now disused section of the Halifax Branch Canal in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.

The canal was a branch line of the still running Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal. The Canal opened in 1828, having been authorised by Act of Parliament in 1825. It was a major breakthrough, bringing 'cheap' coal to Halifax and it was one of the key events of the Industrial Revolution. There were fourteen locks which raised the canal one hundred feet from Salterhebble to the town's terminal basin, known as Bailey Hall. (Close to the present Nestlé factory, previously Mackintosh's toffee factory, home of the famous 'Quality Street' brand.)

Along the canal horse-drawn barges were used to bring coal to the John Holdsworth & Co Ltd.’s Shaw Lodge Mills boiler house where boilers generated steam to drive the massive steam engines, as well as to heat the buildings. Coal was also used by the Company to produce coal gas, which was required for indoor lighting. Workmen used to unload two barges a day, each bringing about thirty-six tons of coal to Shaw Lodge Mills.

The canal was rapidly superseded by the railways and fell into disrepair and was finally abandoned by Warrant of the Minister of Transport in 1942. Whilst the route of the canal is visible through the valley, the canal walls and bed are no longer visible. There is still evidence of many of the old structures such as bridges although very few of the lock workings are visible.

Although there are currently no plans to reopen the canal, nor to restore it, as it would not be cost effective, the historic nature of the canal and features such as the sites of locks mean that it has been protected by the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council from development which would see the remaining features removed or obliterated.

Information source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_and_Hebble_Navigation

Walking along the Hebble Trail a footpath along the route of a now disused section of the Halifax Branch Canal in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.

The canal was a branch line of the still running Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal. The Canal opened in 1828, having been authorised by Act of Parliament in 1825. It was a major breakthrough, bringing 'cheap' coal to Halifax and it was one of the key events of the Industrial Revolution. There were fourteen locks which raised the canal one hundred feet from Salterhebble to the town's terminal basin, known as Bailey Hall. (Close to the present Nestlé factory, previously Mackintosh's toffee factory, home of the famous 'Quality Street' brand.)

Along the canal horse-drawn barges were used to bring coal to the John Holdsworth & Co Ltd.’s Shaw Lodge Mills boiler house where boilers generated steam to drive the massive steam engines, as well as to heat the buildings. Coal was also used by the Company to produce coal gas, which was required for indoor lighting. Workmen used to unload two barges a day, each bringing about thirty-six tons of coal to Shaw Lodge Mills.

The canal was rapidly superseded by the railways and fell into disrepair and was finally abandoned by Warrant of the Minister of Transport in 1942. Whilst the route of the canal is visible through the valley, the canal walls and bed are no longer visible. There is still evidence of many of the old structures such as bridges although very few of the lock workings are visible.

Although there are currently no plans to reopen the canal, nor to restore it, as it would not be cost effective, the historic nature of the canal and features such as the sites of locks mean that it has been protected by the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council from development which would see the remaining features removed or obliterated.

Information source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_and_Hebble_Navigation