Built by the Hebden Bridge Fustian Manufacturing Society a commercially successful co-operative. It was taken over by the Co-operative Wholesale Society after the First World War. Production of fustians ceased in the 1960s. Today it is once again…
Looking down on the town with the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on the right, the mill itself was gutted by fire in November 1964. Heptonstall Road climbing the hillside in the centre but below it housing on High Street and on the north side of…
View over the town from the Chapel Graveyard at the top of the Buttress. The Chapel closed in 1958 and was destroyed by fire in the mid-1960s. The debris here could be following demolition.
In the centre Lees Yard Car Park originally the site of the White Horse Hotel, demolished 1962. More or less in the centre the Town Hall with Bridge Mill and chimney to its right and to the left of the Town Hall the Hole-in-the-Wall and above that…
The weaving shed with its north lights roof and Hebden Water taken from Nutclough Mill. Victoria Road top centre going off to the left; top left part of Hangingroyd Mill, long demolished, and the single storey building in front of it is now the…
Looking across over Pallis House, centre bottom, with St Thomas RC Church and presbytery next to it. Date unknown but not a car to be seen but what appear to be open top trams on New Road which would date it pre- First World War.
Hebden Bridge's Parish Church situated out of the town to the west at Mytholm. One of the so called 'million pound' churches it was built on land donated by the Rev. John Armytage Rhodes of adjacent Mytholm Hall. it was consecrated in 1933.
From Old Gate looking at the back of Bridge Gate. All the buildings seen here on the river bank have been demolished to make way for the riverside path and Bridge Gate car park.
Looking across the town from Cross Lanes Chapel Grave Yard at the top of the Buttress. Date unknown but prior to demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street in 1965.
Viewed from West End Bridge looking upstream towards the Old Bridge. All the buildings on the right-hand river bank have now gone making way for the riverside path and car park on Bridge Gate.
An engraving before the old medieval church dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett was replaced by a new church, unusually in the same churchyard, dedicated in a more protestant tradition to St Thomas the Apostle.
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here one of the several alleyways linking the various dwellings and levels.
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here one of the several yards and privies prior to demolition.