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The Organ in Birchcliffe Chapel - ALC08081
Birchcliffe Chapel Organ
The Prime Minister Visits - ALC01118
Photo taken at the junction of New Road and Commercial Street. Believed to be a visit by Winston Churchill to Hebden Bridge, probably in the early 1940s.
The Stepping Stones, Mytholmroyd - ALC06326
The building on the left is the rear of the "Shoulder of Mutton" Inn. The remnants of the steps down to the stepping stones had been saved and located outside a house adjacent to the pub but were lost in the flood prevention work in 2018. The…
The Waterman's House at Walshaw - ALC09046
Originally termed a cottage, this building caused quite a bit of controversy during the building of the Walshaw reserservoirs in the 1900s. The room nearest the camera was used for committee meetings. The tracks are for the railway used during the…
Thorntons Tea Rooms, Hardcastle Craggs - ALC08267
Known locally as "Cosy Corner".
Tin Tabernacle, Hebden Bridge - ALC00626
Situated in Unity Street, Hebden Bridge, the Tin Tabernacle was built as a Wesleyan Mission and opened in May 1887 for services which had previously been held at a house in Foster Lane. The mission was superseded by the splendid Foster Lane Chapel,…
Todmorden Fire Brigade, at Mytholmroyd - ALC00600
Taken at Pall Mall, now a car park. Watson's mill on the left, now Russell Dean's furniture shop. Postcard.
Todmorden Old Hall - ALC05139
Once a Post Office, this photo was taken before it became a restaurant. Earlier still it was the residence of the Fielden family. Up to the middle of the 16th century all domestic building would have been timber-framed, though in towns such as…
Todmorden Secondary School, Ferney Lee Road - ALC05137
The building was originally Todmorden Grammar, which brought us two Nobel Prize winners. In the late sixties or early seventies, Scaitcliffe School on the opposite side the Burnley Road was opened as a Secondary Modern School. Later the grammar…
Todmorden Station. - ALC00458
The station looking east in L&YR days. The canopies have all now gone along with the platform building on the left and the goods siding which is now the station car park.
Todmorden Town Centre - ALC05151
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…
Todmorden Union Workhouse - ALC06332
This later became Stansfield View Hospital
Todmorden Viaduct. - ALC00459
Viaduct over Burnley Road and market early 20th century. .
Top o'th Town, Heptonstall, c1900 - ALC06327
The shop on the right was both a grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
Top Pump, Heptonstall - ALC03000
Formerly ref: 086c
Top Pump, Heptonstall, c1900 - ALC02561
Four public pumps stood in Heptonstall. This is one of the few surviving and best preserved in Yorkshire.
Towngate, Heptonstall - ALC08261
The building on the right was the Heptonstall Co-operative Industrial Society - built on the site of 7 former cottages on Church Street. The Co-op was established in 1860, in rented premises and moved into a new shop in 1866. Note the glass structure…