This was Stanbury, seen from Enfield Side long before the Sladen Valley Waterworks Scheme transformed the middle distance into a reservoir.

When local photographer William Ingham recorded this view, the Sladen Beck was still flowing along the valley bottom below the trees and farm buildings. The walled track, winding down the hillside from Stanbury, crossed Smith Bank Bridge to join Waterhead Lane on the Haworth side, forming an old packhorse route between Stanbury and Haworth Moor.

Lower Laithe Reservoir would be completed here in 1925, covering 31½ acres. Its maximum depth is 60ft and its total capacity 281,250,000 gallons.