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Great North Gate, Heptonstall, c1890 - ALC05165
This is the entrance to Churchyard Bottom. The building on the left is the Black Bull Inn, the Cloth Hall is on the right. Ref: 031Ref: 031
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - ALC05164
c1910. As we come down the hillside and along Heptonstall Road we pass Cross Lane Chapel (United Methodists) on the right of the picture. Further down the road we approach Queens Terrace and Albion Terrace.
On the left of the picture, beyond the…
On the left of the picture, beyond the…
Blake Dean Chapel and Cottages - ALC05163
Blake Dean Chapel stood at the head of the Hebden Valley . Near by Trestle Bridge was built to enable the reservoir at Walshaw Dean to be constructed.
This chapel was unique in that entrance to the gallery was down two steps and the entrance to the…
This chapel was unique in that entrance to the gallery was down two steps and the entrance to the…
Halifax Road, Todmorden - ALC05154
Looking towards the centre
Halifax Road, Todmorden - ALC05153
Looking towards Hebden Bridge, the Hippodrome is on left
Todmorden Town Centre - ALC05151
North Street, Todmorden, around 1920 before properties including the tall building near the viaduct – housing a sweet shop, butcher’s, pie and pea café and a hairdressers – and the Black Swan, left, disappeared under a road widening scheme in the…
Drawing of Todmorden - ALC05149
The town is looking very elegant. St Mary's church is left of centre, with Cross Stone church on the skyline.
St Mary's, Todmorden - ALC05143
The Town Hall is on the right, and the building on the left was pulled down in order to widen the junction.
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - ALC05141
Joshua Fielden’s brother John, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle…
Bridge End, Halifax Road, Todmorden - ALC05140
Corn Mill on left. During the war they kept a fire engine inside the mill so that if the bridge was bombed or put out of action they would have an engine on that side of the bridge. Cross Stone church is on the skyline.
Todmorden Old Hall - ALC05139
Once a Post Office, this photo was taken before it became a restaurant. Earlier still it was the residence of the Fielden family. Up to the middle of the 16th century all domestic building would have been timber-framed, though in towns such as…
Centre Vale Mansion, Todmorden - ALC05138
The mansion in Centre Vale Park was once home to 'Honest' John Fielden who bought the estate in 1842. The estate was given to Todmorden Borough Council in about 1900 and opened as a public park in 1912. During the First World War it was used as a…
Todmorden Secondary School, Ferney Lee Road - ALC05137
The building was originally Todmorden Grammar, which brought us two Nobel Prize winners. In the late sixties or early seventies, Scaitcliffe School on the opposite side the Burnley Road was opened as a Secondary Modern School. Later the grammar…
St Paul's, Cross Stone - ALC05136
The hamlet below the church is known locally as Little Cornwall. Top right of the picture is the graveyard for the Methodist Church.
Old Town Vista - ALC05135
Many changes have transformed the scene at Old Town, viewed here in the early years of the last century. The big mill an the right is Acre Mill, which was a weaving mill, later owned by Cape Asbestos; the smaller mill on the left of it was the…
