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View over Hebden Bridge c1920 - ALC06347
The town has changed a good deal since this photo was taken. Several of the mills have gone, along with the Bridge Lane houses, running from bottom left to right. Looking at the Birchcliffe area, centre right, a good many more house have been built.…
St Michaels, Mytholmroyd - ALC06346
On the far hillside the newly built houses on the Banksfield Estate, built as post-war housing, date this photo to around 1948
Mytholm, Hebden Bridge - ALC06345
Savile Road climbs up the hillside, the River Calder is in the foreground.
View over Hebden Bridge - ALC06342
The houses in the left foreground are opposite the Marina. The two storey building being the Railway Hotel, the right hand end of the building next to it is Croft House. The tall chimney to the right will be at Crossley Mill.
St John the Baptist, Cragg Vale, c1900 - ALC06340
In 1813 they laid the foundation stone of a small church at Marshaw Bridge. The building was completed 1815. There was accommodation for 250, but it soon became inadequate and was in a state of disrepair.
1838 New church commenced.
1839 Church of St.…
1838 New church commenced.
1839 Church of St.…
Unknown Dwelling - ALC06337
Can anybody identify?
Greenwood Cottage, near Wainsgate, Wadsworth, c1900 - ALC06335
The lady and gentleman are Mr and Mrs Crossley Ashworth, and the children are Alice and Thomas Ashworth.
- ALC06334
Ref: 365
Todmorden Union Workhouse - ALC06332
This later became Stansfield View Hospital
Victorian House Interior - ALC06331
Possibly Cragg Hall
Salem Wesleyan Chapel, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC06329
The original Salem Chapel, built 1885, replaced an earlier chapel built 1824 which only had seating for 750 with a schoolroom underneath. The new chapel had seating 1050. Falling membership after the Second World War meant eventual amalgamation with…
The Colden Valley - ALC06328
The houses on the left-hand edge of the photo are Crowther Terrace.
Left of centre in the valley bottom is the mill complex of Upper and Lower Lumb Mills , and Lumb Bank is on the right, part way up the hill.
The road on the left of the photo…
Left of centre in the valley bottom is the mill complex of Upper and Lower Lumb Mills , and Lumb Bank is on the right, part way up the hill.
The road on the left of the photo…
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…
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…
Brass Band in Hebden Bridge - ALC06325
Playing outside the bank at the junction of Albert Street and Hope Street.
Heptonstall New Church - ALC06324
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…
Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags - ALC06323
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, and part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to and restored by the National Trust by Abraham…
Boys by the River - ALC06322
The stepping stones, Hardcastle Crags