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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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The park is in the foreground and British Furtex in the centre. BT061JTS.

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Date unknown. On the bottom right is a section of the footbridge between the two platforms and above it the small Booking Office. On the left is the entrance to the goods and coal yards.

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View from the north hillside across Station Road to the coal drops and the goods yard. Date unknown but the station closed in 1962 and the goods yard in 1965. The only evidence there once was a station here is in the name 'Station Road'.

The parish…

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The Outdoor Swimming Society lists the plunge pool at Lumb Falls in the top ten places in the UK for wild swimming.

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The 13 stone arch Lydgate, or Nott Wood Viaduct on the 1849 Todmorden to Burnley 'Copy Pit' line.

The viaduct towers over the village, once a bustling, densely-populated area centred around the cotton mills at Robinwood and Lineholme. Old code No.…

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William Barker, credited as the first local manufacturer of ready-made clothing, built most of Market Street. This view, taken around 1910, shows Lello's Dining Rooms with the Post Office next door.

The Post Office in Hebden Bridge occupied many…

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The building on the corner of Market Street and Old Gate, pictured here as Jackson Merchant Taylor, ended its days as 'Nicky's Cafe'. In 1910 the street was gas light. Beyond is Bridge Gate Mill.

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Decorated horse-drawn float. On the pavement in front of Riverside School.

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Date unknown but probably 1880s. On the right IS the large station warehouse and to its left Victoria Mill and chimney.

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The Hall is situated just above the A646 opposite the station and the former Mayroyd Mill.

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Was this part of the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977?

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Crimsworth Terrace is towards the left of the picture and Pecket Well at the top.

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Sewing shop decorated for the 1911 Coronation.

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The house in the centre of the picture is Angeldale on Hangingroyd Lane. Moss Lane winds up the hillside to the Heptonstall road. Cross Lanes Chapel is on the extreme left of the picture. Back of photo dated 1956

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Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel once stood proudly near the bottom of Midgley Road. Built in 1887, sadly dry rot caused the chapel to be closed in August 1960 and it was demolished in 1970 and flats now occupy the site.

After closure the…
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