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West Yorkshire, England

St. Aidan's BE1150 Dragline

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

Bingley, England

Milner Field Ruins

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

West Yorkshire, England

Huddersfield Sailing Club Race Control Tower

Collapsed television tower finds new life as a control tower for boat races.

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Bradford, England

Colour Experience Museum

A museum devoted to the science of color.

0 miles from West Yorkshire

Bingley, England

Cottingley Beck

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

2 miles from West Yorkshire

Baildon, England

Shipley Glen Tramway

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

2 miles from West Yorkshire

Menston, England

High Royds Hospital

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

5 miles from West Yorkshire

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Elsie Wright photographed her cousin, Frances Griffths, surrounded by fairies in July 1917.

For Sale: Legendary Photographic 'Proof' of Fairies and Gnomes

In 1917, two young girls with a camera pranked the world.

by Jessica Leigh Hester

September 28, 2018