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Wooden Bridge and Pipes At The Dene - Hesleden (hesl0007)

Hesleden Church Wedding
Monk Hesleden Village

Postcard photograph entitled The Dene, Hesleden. 3544, showing fields in the distance beyond the dene, trees lining the dene, a wooden foot bridge crossing the dene, approximately six indistinct children on the bridge, a large pipe crossing the dene parallel to the bridge and a slope down to the bridge, from which the photograph has been taken

Wooden Bridge and Pipes At The Dene - Hesleden

Postcard photograph entitled The Dene, Hesleden. 3544, showing fields in the distance beyond the dene, trees lining the dene, a wooden foot bridge crossing the dene, approximately six indistinct children on the bridge, a large pipe crossing the dene parallel to the bridge and a slope down to the bridge, from which the photograph has been taken

Date: 1920 - 1929


This is a picture of the steps leading down to the dene. Entrance to the dene was obtained by walking down Station Road and across the railway lines by the station. The steps had gone by the sixty's, but the pipe remains.

Comment added by Ian Tindale on 06/01/2009 13:36:00

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