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…
Nutclough Mill is in the centre of the picture, above its chimney is Sandy Gate, with the fields of Old town behind. Birchcliffe Chapel centre right. Source: Barbara Shepherd. Ref: At568BAS.
Crossley Westerman was born in Hebden Bridge in 1861, the youngest of the three children of Henry and Sarah Westerman. Crossley’s father died in 1873 and his mother was left to bring up the family on her own. She opened a toyshop at West End, Hebden…
The buildings in the foreground are Regent Street / Sackville Street / Cleveland Place / Oak Street as they were initially developed. The deeds to 2 Regent Street and 6 Sackville Street indicate the properties were built in the1890's. The houses 2…
The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen with the graveyard visible before it was colonised by trees. Being built is the new Birchcliffe Chapel which was completed in 1898. Chapel Avenue is just a building site!
Central Board School was the second Board School in Hebden Bridge. (Stubbings, 1878 was the first), and was opened in July 1884 as the Todmorden United District Hebden Bridge Central Board School. Originally it was a one—storey building and the…
The house in the lower centre of the photo was a Lock Keeper's House on the Rochdale Canal. To the right-hand side of the Photo is Mytholm Hall with behind it the Parish Church of Hebden Bridge - St. James the Great, and behind that the two Eaves…