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Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00179
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here prior to demolition, a path to the top storey dwellings along with their privies.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00178
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here some of the flights of external steps which provided access to the upper storeys.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00177
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here shortly before demolition the view is if of one of the maze of external steps and alleys which provided access to the various…
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00176
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. The view here if of one of the maze of landings in the block accessed by external steps and alleys.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00175
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here probably after they had been evacuated for demolition looking up the Buttress from Old Bridge. Royd Terrace in the centre and the…
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00174
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here probably not long before demolition from Hangingroyd Lane looking up the Buttress with Royd Terrace on the right.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00173
The steps to the tenements at the bottom of the Buttress which were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00172
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here from an alleyway looking towards the Hole-in-the-Wall.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00171
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here from Hangingroyd Lane with the Hole-in-the-Wall on the left.
Hebden Bridge from behind Buttress - WSC00170
On the left the Co-op Department Store (now Carlton Buildings) and clock.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00168
Outside toilets at the time the tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s.
Steps at Birchcliffe, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00167
Top of the '100 Steps' coming up from Commercial Street to the bottom of Marlborough Road.
Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00166
The Hebden Water flowing below the mill.
Church Lane, Mytholm - WSC00162
Opposite the Parish Church, the buildings on the left remain but the farm buildings have gone and are now replaced by the sheltered housing of Mytholm Meadows.
Handloom Weaver c.1900, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00161
"The decline of handloom weaving was a long process and it was not until the 1830s that power-loom weaving began to seriously displace the hand loom weavers. After 1841 each national census for Hebden Bridge shows a shrinking number of handloom…
Heptonstall Old Church - WSC00159
Taken from the top of the tower of the new church. This old medieval church was replaced by the new church in the same churchyard in the 1850s.
Hebden Bridge from Keighley Road - WSC00158
The tree bridges, St Georges Bridge, Old Bridge and West End Bridge. The buildings on the right of the river bank this side of the bridge have all been replaced with a purpose built office and shop block. On the hillside to the left of the chimney is…
Hebden Bridge View. - WSC00157
Looking across from Union Street on the Birchcliffe Hillside to terraces off Palace House Road along with the abattoir. In the centre Croft Mill and chimney.
Market Street, Hebden Bridge - WSC00156
Above the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on Stubbing Holme.
Hebden Bridge Station - WSC00155
A famous photo of the station area about 1900. Bottom right the Municipal Gas Works at Crow Nest, above it Mayroyd Mill and then the five storey Victoria Mill with the small station dwarfed by it and the large station warehouse on the other side.…