Thorpe from Butterworth
View of Thorpe House and surrounding mills in the Ryburn valley, from Butterworth on eastern side.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Triangle
Format: Glass Slide
Document ID: 101783
Library ID: 81
Thorpe House was built in 1804.
It had been home to Arnold Williams, Liberal MP for Sowerby in the 1920s, and during World War II served as officers' quarters for the Royal Engineers, after which it lay empty for 12 years.
In 1957, the mansion's dilapidated and run-down state was repaired and it was converted into a home for elderly people, which it remained until 1994 when it was closed down as a retirement home.
Triangle is an area of Calderdale on the main turnpike road between Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden in the Ryburn valley, and dates from the 19th century industrialisation of the valley.
The glass slide is from the John Bates Slide Collection held at Sowerby Bridge Public Library.
