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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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The gardens seen here and the buildings at the end demolished when New Road was widened in the mid-1930s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

There is no better example of Mytholmroyd

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The hall occupies – or rather occupied – a prominent site on the spur of the hill overlooking Sterne Bridge. In the summer of 1912 lightning struck the…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

This hall overlooks Sowerby Bridge at the extremity of the straggling village of Norland. Like Norland Hall and Norland Upper Hall this homestead was…

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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.

Soon after Northowram had become a legally constituted ecclesiastical parish in 1909, steps were taken towards…

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Looking down Hebden Dale to Hebden Bridge the house is off the old Packhorse Road from Heptonstall to Haworth via Midgehole and Pecket Well.

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Looking at the now disused Nutclough Works at Hebden Bridge, it is hard to imagine the grey stone walls once enclosed an…

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Oakvill Road on the left as it drops down to King strre. Below it the Manchester line. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Looking west up the valley to the chimney of Calderside Mill next to Whiteley Arches. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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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 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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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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A carrier by trade, William Holt was a well-known character in Victorian Hebden Bridge. His job took him all over the country and he is known to have visited the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. In 1850 Holt was at the centre of the…

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The first General Baptist's meetings were held in a house on Wadsworth Lane but requiring bigger premises the congregation built the first Birchcliffe Chapel in 1764 on Sandy Gate.

This was re-built and enlarged in 1825 and then replaced in 1898 by…

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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The Old Bridge taken from St George's Bridge looking downstream. The large building in the centre was on Bridge Gate but long demolished. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The history of the original homestead is not available. Towards the close of the thirties, Mr Christopher Rawson obtained possession and as the structure…

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Inscription reads 'PEACE BE WITHIN THY GATE'. 1676. PH11/10.

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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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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Overgate Hospice calendar 2002. PH69.
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