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Hebden Bridge - View from Wood Top. - ALC00414
Bottom centre the passenger station and to its left the large railway warehouse and goods sidings. Above them can be seen Riverside School, originally Hebden Bridge Grammar School which opened 1909. At the top of Station Road by Princes Bridge is…
Hebden Bridge - Nursery Nook. - ALC00415
ALC00415. Looking across to Nursery Nook and Spring Wood Terrace at the junction of Midgehole Road and Keighley Road with Hurst Road going off diagonally left. Early 20th century pre First World War.
Hebden Bridge - Moss Lane. - ALC00416
ALC00416. c.1910. Moss Lane climbing the hillside to Cross Lanes. Named after the Moss family, early fustian manufacturers, one of whom had a school here on the hillside which is now built up. On the skyline the top of Heptonstall Church. The house…
View from Alice Longstaff's Kitchen Window - ALC00417
The cottages of Knowl Top and Edge Hey Green, at Colden, above Heptonstall, can be seen beyond the cows.
Heptonstall Slack - ALC00418
ALC00418. Postcard with postmark 1917.
Heptonstall Slack - ALC00419
ALC00419. Late 1950s/early 1960s. The cafe is Waterloo House. The white car is a Ford Zephyr Mkll or Zodiac Mkll which were produced 1956-1962.
Heptonstall 'Top o' th' Town' - ALC00420
The people of Heptonstall depended for their water on four pumps. Here 'Top o' th' Town' pump is shown locked up, which usually happened on Saturday night, and it remained locked until Monday morning. A careful housewife would fill her setpot on…
Charlestown and Whiteley Arches c1918 - ALC00422
The steel bow string bridge was designed by George Stephenson and was one of the earliest of its type. He was employed by Manchester & Leeds Railway when the line was built in the late 1830's. The line was opened in October 1840 except for the…
Whiteley Arches - ALC00423
1933. The bowstring bridge over the Rochdale Canal; when built in 1840 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway it was one of the first such in the country. It was replaced in 1939 with the metal trough bridge we see today. To the left Canalside Mill…
Charlestown - ALC00424
"This photo was taken from the South hillside with Woodland view in the foreground. Beyond the railway line Knott Hall is on the left, Old Charlestown and Stoney Lane are in the centre with Turret Royd just above. Turret Hall (Wood farm) can be seen…
Eastwood and Cockden - ALC00425
Cockden was the industrial area of Eastwood and Cockden Mill, known as Dan Crabtree's, was west of the station. The typical L&YR station name board is on the right. The mill was demolished late 1950s/early 60s by when derelict.
Eastwood School - ALC00426
The school which opened in 1875 as a Board School was opposite the railway station, seen here above the school. To the left of the station is Cockden Mill. The school closed in 1946 and was subsequently demolished.
Todmorden - ALC00427
Halifax Road, Todmorden about 1910.
Todmorden. - ALC00428
Looking from the top of Halifax Road towards the market place and the railway viaduct over Burnley Road. On the right the Town Hall and on the left is the Yorkshire Penny Bank.
Mytholmroyd c1905. - ALC00429
This is Burnley Road looking towards Halifax at the junction with New Road and County Bridge on the right. An early open top Halifax Corporation tram with external steps up is approaching. On the left is the Dusty Miller.
Mytholmroyd - St Michaels Church. - ALC00430
The church was built in 1847/8 in an Early English Style.
Mytholmroyd - General View. - ALC00431
ALC00431. Date unknown but the land in the foreground not yet levelled for the construction of the railway siding in 1919. Centre right
Mytholmroyd. - ALC00432
1925. Burnley Road shops with the tram lines in the centre of the road, these were lifted in 1936.
Mytholmroyd - 1946 Floods. - ALC00433
Junction of Caldene Avenue and Burnley Road.
Mytholmroyd - Flood August 1954. - ALC00434
ALC00434. River Calder looking downstream from Caldene Bridge.
Mytholmroyd - Flood August 1954. - ALC00435
Thornber's Poultry Farm, Elphaborough Hall.
Mytholmroyd - Flood August 1954. - ALC00436
Cafe under the railway viaduct.
Mytholmroyd - Flood August 1954. - ALC00437
Caldene Bridge and the Post Office on Burnley Road.
Mytholmroyd - Flood August 1954. - ALC00438
Burnley Road from the junction with Caldene Avenue looking towards Halifax.