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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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Hebden Bridge Gas Works under construction on 17th July 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Under construction on 16th September 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Hebden Bridge Gas Works under construction on 7th September 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Hebden Bridge gas works under construction on 7th November 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Under construction on 6th November 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Hebden Bridge gas works under construction on 3rd August 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Hebden Bridge gas works under construction on 2nd November 1912. The gas works were a municipal undertaking and remained so until nationalisation of the gas industry in 1949.

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Buttress Brink on the left looks unoccupied so this is probably just before demolition started in the 1960s. Royd Terrace on the right still stands.

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Buttress Brink is on the right with the Hole in the Wall beyond. Probably taken just before demolition of Buttress Brink started in the 1960s.

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Probably taken in the 1960s not long before demolition started.

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The 3 chaps with the penny farthings –
R) Edward Jones Crossley
Centre) Arthur Riley Crossley (his brother)
L) I think this is Hamlet Riley (their cousin)

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The Shoulder of Mutton is on the left and the sheltered housing of Elphaborough on the right.

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Obviously a time of drought judging by the level of the River Calder. It was originally, a water-powered cotton mill and at the time, the largest mill in Charlestown.

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Originally called Underbank Dyeworks it was used for dying silk, having two dye sheds. The remains of the mill dam which was fed by a goit from Jumble Hole Clough, can still be seen above the mill. nearby is Underbank Hall

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The photograph shows the area of King Street, Mytholm, also Eaves Wood, including Hell Hole Rocks, with Heptonstall Church on the skyline.

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Construction of the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…

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The newly constructed the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…
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