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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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Hebden Bridge from above Fairfield. The building bottom right was for many years an aberttoir. Behind it can be seen goods wagons in the station sidings. The Grammar School on Home Street can be seen so the photo is after 1908.

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The trees indicate the line of Hebden Water, the driveway from Lodge Gates can be seen making its way to Gibson Mill and beyond snaking through the trees. The shoulder of the hill to the right in the photograph is Shackleton Hill and the road on the…

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Delivery van of Henry Fray beef and pork butcher of Luddenden and Hebden Bridge. Fray sold out to Elias Hillyard just before WW2 and his name is just visible on the van side.

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Delivery van of Henry Fray beef and pork butcher of Luddenden and Hebden Bridge. Fray sold out to Elias Hillyard just before WW2 and his name is just visible on the van side.

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This church was built at a cost of £7,000. The new church was consecrated on 26th October 1854 by Bishop Longley of Ripon and dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle.

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Heptonstall has two churches within one graveyard. Although not unique, there is another instance at Alvingham in Lincolnshire, this is unusual. At the centre of the village are the ruins of the Church of St Thomas à Becket built between 1256 and…

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Taken on the first flight over the Calder Valley. Alice Longstaff was a passenger.

This is the newspaper report of the flight, probably written by Bernard Ingham, who was a cub reporter at the time and was also on the fight:

FLIGHT OVER THE…

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The New Church was built in 1854. It contains a fine Italian painting of the "Last Supper".

The Old Church was originally built in the 13th century, but was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries. The two churches are extremely unusual in that…

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As the tourist will plainly perceive a new church has been built, at a cost of £6666, and was consecrated October 26, 1854. But we cannot refrain from stating that the architect lamentably erred in planning the church in that particular style of…

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HEPTONSTALL
According to an old deed, in the early part of the 17th century there was a Cloth Hall, the property of John Sunderland , of Horshold.
But the glory of Heptonstall is the old church, or rather it is sad to write, the ruins of the old…

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Opened in 1854 the 'new' church was dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle. This photo shows it before the church was re-ordered. Work had begun on re-ordering the church in 1960 and was completed in 1964.

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Photo taken at the top of Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge. The road to the left is Heptonstall Road. The houses on the right composed "High Street" which were demolished in the 1960's, being classed as being unfit for habitation.

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Looking west towards Colden and Blackshaw Head. The cottages of Slack Bottom are on the left, Slack House on the right with Mount Zion Baptist Chapel in the distance.

The two people are believed to be the Rev George Thomas, minister at Slack…

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This building was demolished in 1963 and replaced by a more modern village hall, which in turn was demolished and the site is now occupied by houses.

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The foundation stone of this Chapel was laid by John Wesley, and erected in 1764. The shape is octagonal. In the building of this chapel there appears to have been almost an element of romance; women as well as men, coming even from a distance and…
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