Hamer Cottages at the junction of Badger Land and Old Shaw Lane. The date above the window on the right-hand cottage is 1770. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Taken from the front of the Council Offices looking across Market Place prior to it being landscaped. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
This is Haugh End, Sowerby, built c1526, sometimes refered to as Old Haugh End. John Tillotson was born here in 1630 he went on to be Archbishop of Canturbury.
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
Near Hill House lane. It as a fine old homestead, charming in its appearance of antiquity and beautifully situated. Small leaded windows are set in its…
Back Row L to R. Steve Murty, Pat Farthing (now Benson), Mike Tilley (Vice Chairman), Paul Monahan, Bill Marsden, Ann Kilbey, Brian Hoyle. Front Row. Jean Hamer, Diana Monahan, Frank Woolrych (President), Sheila Hopkinson, Beryl Woolrych.
The original plans for this aqueduct over the River Calder, near its confluence with Hebden Water, were drawn by John Rennie, and modified by William Jessop. William Crossley of Brighouse supervised the work. Photo taken 1973.
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…
Slide 1: Heath Old Hall, the residence of Mr Gilbert Tennent, deservres to be accounted among the finest Yorkshire houses of the Elizabethan period. Its situation is striking, perched on a wooded cliff, overlooking the Calder Valley.