Crossley’s tea room, Hardcastle Crags, c1919

The feature on Gibson Mill and Hardcastle Crags in Issue 4 of Milltown Memories includes this photo of Crossley’s Tea Rooms. The same photo appeared in Issue 76 (1st March – 6th April ’04) of “Down Your Way – Yorkshire’s Nostalgic Magazine”. The photo, along with another of “New Pavilion, Hardcastle” had been sent in by Sylvia M Jones of Pontefract. These postcards were sent to members of her family. She dates the Crossley’s one at 1919 and says it was sent to her mother and father. The little boy is her brother Stanley Jones. The motorcycle driver is Albert Greenwood, a farmer who lived at Den Farm, Blackshawhead and husband of her Aunt Edith who sent the postcard. The man on the wall is Edwin Crossley, owner of the cafe – his father had a jeweller’s shop in Hebden Bridge, she says. This building is called New Bridge Hall.