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Looking over Hebden Bridge to the Birchcliffe hillside. In the centre of the picture with its arched portico is the former Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, opened in 1899, now the Birchcliffe Centre, home of Pennine Heritage Ltd. The chapel looks newly…

Inside a weaving Shed

Harwoods Elect. S' Room

In a Dyers and Finishers

Decorated Sewing Shop - 1911 Coronation

Crossley Mill is to be found in the centre of the right hand edge of the picture. The main building of the Co-operative Industrial Society, Carlton Buildings, is in the centre of the photo, with Hope Baptist Church, in the foreground. Heptonstall…

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…

Lee Mill

From Walshaw Railway - New Walshaw Reservoir above Blakedean

Hebden Bridge Council Offices

Chimney with Steeple Jacks

Cross Lanes Chapel

Coronation Arch 1911

A view into the chancel of St James the Great, now the parish church of Hebden Bridge. A Grade II listed Commissioner's Church. Rev. A Rhodes and his wife Mary gave the land for the church to be built and the stone from a local quarry. The Church was…

The price of fish, chips, tea and bread and butter is 8d. in the cafe nick named Mrs Cuddys on New Road. It was moved to the canal side on Holme Street and converted into a garage later becoming Southwells Coaches, which later became the site of the…

Gibson Mill began its life around 1803 as a water-powered spinning mill. Less than a hundred years later, it was called Lord Holme Mill, part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to the National Trust by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood…

Mytholmroyd Railway Station

The lodge at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is on the left of the picture, and in the foreground the popular Lello's Tea Rooms.

The feature on Gibson Mill and Hardcastle Crags in Issue 4 of Milltown Memories includes this photo of Crossley's Tea Rooms. The same photo appeared in Issue 76 (1st March - 6th April '04) of "Down Your Way - Yorkshire's Nostalgic Magazine". The…