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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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View across the town late 19th or early 20th century prior to the building of Riverside School in 1908. Bottom right is Central School following enlargement in 1895. Looking up the river beyond the second bridge the Council Offices built in 1897/8.…

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From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900. The picture shows the new station which was built in 1892. The large mill towards the right is Victoria Mill.

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Looking across from Horsehold Road over to Old Town with Acre Mill. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Outing to Beamish Open Air Museum. Preparing to go into the mine.

PH49.

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PH/25. The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd. Strange how quickly attitudes change

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In the foreground Mytholm Hall which was demolished in the 1960s to make way for accommodation for the elderly PH12 HBS09

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Dedicated to St James the Great and consecrated in 1833. Built on land donated by the Armytages of Mytholm it is unusually well out of the town centre.

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Whilst several of the Nonconformist Chapels are in or near the town centre the Parish Church is out at Mytholm. Historically Hebden Bridge came within the Parochial Chapelry of Heptonstall, part of the vast Halifax Parish. With the growing…

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HLS05078. The church viewed from the 'inner lane' to Eaves. That lane passing the church is now only access to the school and Eaves Road has been cut into the hill on the right joining the 'lane' about by the end of the building on the left.

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Date unknown but after construction of West End Bridge in 1772.

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Date unknown but after construction of West End Bridge in 1772 for the new Halifax - Todmorden turnpike.

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Long lost scene. Far left the Crow Nest Gas Works, to the right semaphore signals and water turret, towards the centre the long demolished Victoria Mill and to its left the apex of the station warehouse demolished in 1969. Part of the Hebden Bridge…

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Bridge Mll is on the left and the shops of St Georges Square are in the foreground Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Rooftops of Albert Street, Garden Street and Commercial Street. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Enlarged extract from one of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. Seen here the small station building on the 'Leeds line' is almost hidden…

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Lithograph by A. F. Tait dated 1845 from Views of the Manchester & Leeds Railway. Drawn from Nature and stone.

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One of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. To the left of the station the trestle bridge carrying the station road over the Calder and left…

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Tinted lithograph of the station by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway, published in 1845. This section of the line had opened in October 1840.

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West End, looking towards New Road with Bridge Gate on the left. The Westminster Bank later became Nat West and that was closed in 2015.
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