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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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After the war Billy Holt opened a holiday camp in Hardcastle Crags using army surplus tents.

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ALC00345. West side of the festival arch for the coronation of George V in June 1911 looking through to Holme House. This side was lit by gas whilst the other was lit by electricity.

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ALC00346. East side of the festival arch for the coronation of George V in June 1911 looking through to Westbourne House. This side was lit by electricity whilst the other was lit by gas.

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ALC00367.Top of Albert Street at its junction with Garden Street. This section of Albert Street was at one time called Victoria Street - the sign for this can be seen on one of the stones to the right of the long sign above the shop window. The sign…

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Looking towards Horsehold.

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c1968. Ref: A192007

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Dodnaze housing estate can be seen in the top right hand corner of the photo. The River Hebden is in the centre of the photograph. In the bottom left hand corner are the four blocks of flats built in the 1970's and subsequently demolished.

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The River Hebden can be seen joining the River Calder in the lower centre of the photograph. Calder Holmes Park can be seen in the bottom righthand corner of the photograph with the adjacent gas holder. A192009

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ALC00343. Left-hand drive car at the bottom of Bankfoot looking up to Bridge Lanes.

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Bankfoot Garage, with a single petrol pump, looking up towards buildings on Heptonstall Road. The left-hand drive car by the garage has a post-1921 Leeds registration number.

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Looking down towards Bankfoot with well spaced gas lamps. Bankfoot House on the left and Bankfoot Dyeworks centre right. The days before 'smoke free zones' with smoke coming from the chimneys of several houses on the hillside. The car, perhaps being…

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Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.

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The bottom of Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street before Commercial Street was re-aligned in 1959 to carry straight on up Keighley Road; the buildings on the left were demolished at that time. The buildings on the right still…

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The dwellings on the north side of Bridge Lanes being demolished in April 1964.

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ALC00328. The dwellings on the north side of Bridge Lanes being demolished in April 1964.

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Looking up Bridge Lanes towards its junction with Heptonstall Road. The large building on the left was Breck Mill, a corn mill, now demolished. On the right the buildings beyond the high gabled building were all demolished in 1964 and the area…

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c1929. Hebden Bridge Agricultural Show. Hebden Bridge Urban District Council purchased Calder Holmes Park in 1931 to be an open space for the town. Here we have an uninterrupted view across to Riverside School prior to the building of the Little…

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The junction of Crown Street and New Road. Spencer's building on the left was demolished and the gardens also removed when New Road was widened in the 1930s. The opening on the right is now Holt's yard.

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1959. The gas works at Crow Nest being dismantled. The single storey mill buildings visible beyond have all now been demolished.

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The gas works at Crow Nest next to the railway station were completed in 1912. Across the valley is Mayroyd House.

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Rear of Holme House in the foreground and above it the now demolished mill on Bridge Gate; centre right the Hole-in-the-Wall hotel. Date unknown but prior to the demolition in 1931 of the building on Bridge Gate at its junction with New Road.

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Hangingroyd Lane about 1962; on the right Market Place before landscaping.

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Looking up Heptonstall Road with Bridge Lanes going down to the right before demolition in 1964. The 'Fox & Goose' far left.
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