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- Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society
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Mr Tim Bobbin - HLS05124
HLS05124. Series of prints containing caricatures of teeth removal.
Mr Tim Bobbin - HLS05125
HLS05125. Series of prints containing caricatures of teeth removal.
William Nowell - HLS05126
William was a local naturalist who lived in Hebden Bridge, and was a founder member of the Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society
Early Local Naturalists - HLS05127
W. B. Crump. William Nowell, Walter Greaves and unknown man on right.
Couple by Cottage Fireside, Heptonstall - HLS05134
The calendar reads Tuesday 25 March, year not shown but probably 1890.
Heptonstall Pump - HLS05136
In times of draught the pump was chained up and the buckets were left in line until it was turned on.
Heptonstall - Line of Cans on Smithwell Lane. - HLS05137
HLS05137. Heptonstall people relied on four pumps for their water supply. The pumps were locked on a Saturday night until Monday and residents put their cans or buckets out ready to fill when the water came back on.
Heptonstall - Towngate c.1895. - HLS05138
Looking up towards the Cross Inn. Taken from a lantern slide.
Heptonstall - Church Street Repairs. - HLS05139
Date unknown but probably late 1890s.
Heptonstall - Plaque on Northgate. - HLS05140
The plaque bearing the date 1736 is on a building which used to be part of the Cross Inn. The initials are for Henry and Elizabeth Foster, who had the house built.
Heptonstall - Plaque on Northgate. - HLS05141
The plaque bearing the date 1736 is on a building which used to be part of the Cross Inn. The initials are for Henry and Elizabeth Foster, who had the house built.
Heptonstall - Old Archway to Whitehall Farm, Northgate. - HLS05142
The old archway is dated 1578.
Northwell House, Heptonstall - HLS05143
Looking down Hebden Dale to Hebden Bridge the house is off the old Packhorse Road from Heptonstall to Haworth via Midgehole and Pecket Well.
Heptonstall - Northwell Cottage - HLS05144
The cottage is on the steep packhorse road from Heptonstall to Haworth via Midgehole and Pecket Well.
Heptonstall - Northwell Lane. - HLS05145
Part of the old packhorse road which dropped down to Midgehole then up to Pecket Well where it joined the Hebden Bridge - Haworth old road.
Heptonstall - Smithwell Lane. - HLS05146
HLS05146. Wesleyan Sunday School Procession, carrying their banner down Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, which is bedecked with flags. Note the little girls in pinafore dresses, ladies in boaters, and men in cloth caps. Date unknown.
Heptonstall - Smithwell Lane. - HLS05146
Wesleyan Sunday School Procession, carrying their banner down Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, which is bedecked with flags. Note the little girls in pinafore dresses, ladies in boaters, and men in cloth caps. Date unknown.
Sunday School Procession on Cross Hill. - HLS05147
Sunday School procession on Cross Hill at the top of Smithwell Lane, late 19th or early 20th century.
Heptonstall - Wesleyan Chapel. - HLS05148
The unusual octagonal Grade ll Listed Chapel which was built in 1764 and was one of the earliest Wesleyan Chapels in the country. It was built following one of John Wesley's many visits to Heptonstall where he had a large following.
Heptonstall - Archway Entrance to Churchyard Bottom. - HLS05149
HLS05149. Entrance from off Smithwell Lane.
Heptonstall - The Old Grammar School. - HLS05150
The plaque above the doorway is dated 1642. The building now houses Heptonstall Museum operated by Calderdale Council.
Heptonstall Graveyard. - HLS05151
The grave of Samuel Sutcliffe who was murdered at Hawden Hole in February 1817. His murderers were hanged at York the following month.
The building barely visible on the left was the Black Bull Inn.
The building barely visible on the left was the Black Bull Inn.
Heptonstall - Pinnacle from the New Church - HLS05152
The 'new' Church, replacing the old medieval one, opened in 1854 but was struck by lightning in 1875 causing a pinnacle to come crashing down onto the graves below. The pinnacle now sits by the church wall and the inscription reads:
"This pinnacle…
"This pinnacle…