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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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The chimney of Calder Mill can be seen prominently on the left. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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1960. Rear of the 'up' Manchester Platform across the viaduct. The platforms not only extended across the viaduct but overhung it supported by massive brackets as seen here. This was not without incident and on more than one occasion flags and and…

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The bottom of the old route up to Heptonstall. The Hole in the Wall is on the left, and on the far side of the Old Bridge is the White Swan. The road to the right is old Gate. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Hebden Bridge in the 1950s, with Buttress Brink on the left, Royd Terrace in the centre, Hole in the Wall on the right and Cross Lanes Chapel in the distance. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Buildings of Buttress Brink which were demolished in the 1960s on the right. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Hebden Bridge in the 1950s, with Buttress Brink on the left, Royd Terrace in the centre, Hole in the Wall on the right and Cross Lanes Chapel on the hill. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Home of the notorious Cragg coiner David "King" Hartley.

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Home of the notorious Cragg coiner David "King" Hartley.

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Looking along Old Gate and the Hebden Water in the centre of the town towards Bridge Mill. Taken prior to the construction of the Council Offices and St Georges Bridge mid-1890s.

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Thornton's Tea Rooms at Hebden Hey, also known as Cosy Corner

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Slide 14. Such is the central point of the scenery in which walk the dauntless 'Shirley', the gentle Caroline, the Rectors, the inimitable Curates, and all the dramatis personae who take part in this perfect West Riding Drama.

As it is around this…

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Slide 13. The sides of the mullioned windows in the same room are ornamented with some quaintly designed decoration plaster panels.

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Slide 12 - This view shows some of the old mullioned windows of the late Elizabethan period, which have, unlike the northern front, escaped mutilation.

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Slide 6: Mr John Wombwell, an East Indian Nabob (a person, especially a European, who has made a large fortune in India or another country of the East), who lived here towards the end of the eighteenth century, is said to have spent a large sum of…

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Slide 5: The central hall as shown on slide, was formerly open to the sky to give light to the gallery on the first floor.

This well was afterwards roofed in, covered with glass by the Right honourable John Smythe, the owner of the Mansion. A…

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Slide 4: This shows the nearer view of the stairway leading to the terrace, just alluded to. It is noteworthy that a house that has passed through so many hands should have remained so little spoiled externally in its main features as this house has…
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