THESE members of the Haworth Ramblers Club were photographed in the gardens of Cragg Hall at Cragg Vale in September, 1927. Their rather natty style of dress is deceptive, for the Haworth Ramblers often covered 15 miles on their Sunday walks.
This was not one of their longer rambles, however. They had started from Eastwood, between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, climbed up to Stoodley Pike, then crossed the moors to what the following week’s Halifax Courier and Guardian called “the tree-clad ravines and sheltered glens” of Cragg Vale, where Cragg Hall was notable for its “luxuriant gardens and conservatories”.
After tea at the Hinchliffe Arms Hotel – just visible below the church and mill chimney in the right background – they walked down to Mytholmroyd.
Largely under the guiding influence of Jonas Bradley, headmaster for 30 years at Stanbury Board School, the Haworth Ramblers flourished from 1906 till the Second World War.
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