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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…

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Looking down Hebden Water to the three bridges in the town centre; St Georges Bridge (1893, the Old Bridge (1510) and West End Bridge (1772).

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Far right part of The -hole-in-the-Wall pub, the building in the centre on Hangingroyd Lane has long gone.

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In the centre Lees Yard Car Park originally the site of the White Horse Hotel, which was 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…

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Dropping down from Birchcliffe Road behind Cliffe Street it is the remains of the old packhorse route from Heptonstall to both Halifax and Haworth. Originally it dropped steeply straight down to the Old Bridge passing right in front of the White…

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Partly hidden by the tree on the left is the main building of Foster Mill and then partly hidden by the tree on the right is Hangingroyd Mill and above it Nutclough Mill, the only one to remain.

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Town view from beside Zion Chapel on Osborne Street with in the foreground buildings on Union Street and below that houses on both sides of Commercial Street, demolished mid-1960s. On the left near the top is Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road

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Looking down Hebden Water to first St Georges Bridge and then the Old Bridge. On the left the huge retaining wall supporting Keighley Road which at this point is on a ledge cut out of the cliff side. The buildings on the right-hand river bank have…

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Looking acros an industrial scene to the Birchcliffe hillside. Behind the trees on the left is Foster Mill and below the terraced houses on the hillside is Nutclough Mill and below that Hangingroyd Mill.

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The market has since been moved to a new site on Lees Yard.

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Looking up Hebden Water to Nutclough Mill top right. Keighley Road is supported above the river by a huge retaining wall at this point. When constructed as the Lees & Hebden Bridge Turnpike in about 1815 it was built on a shelf cut out of the cliff.

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Centre left the Shoulder of Mutton with to its right Bridge Mill and chimney and to the right of that the Council Offices now re-named the Town Hall.

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Top centre Stubbings School then dropping down to the White Lion Yard and Shepherd's Garage.

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Looking down from its junction with Keighley Road. Going off to the right is Lees Road which was part of the original 1815 turnpike road to Keighley.

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Just visible on the far right are houses on Heptonstall Road and above them Badger Lane climbing up to Blackshawhead Almost dead centre of the photo is the landmark chimney of Calder Mill.

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The hotel on the left is the former Nutclough House pub and above it the double-decker Eiffel Buildings on the road which runs down to join Keighley Road where vehicles can be seen.

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The town is out of sight hidden by the buildings but the steep cut of the Upper Calder Valley is very noticeable.

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Location not known but believed to be Hebden Bridge.

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On the right houses on Fairfield and diagonally above them Horsehold and to their right Dodd Naze. On the right hand hillside houses on the Heptonstall estate.

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Looking down from Sandy Gate over Ibbotroyd Clough to houses on Heptonstall Road with Hebden Bridge itself largely out of sight in the valley bottom. In the centre of the photo is the landmark chimney of Calder Mill and to its left Horsehold Road…

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Nook Lane, Wadsworth.

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Probably taken from Nook Lane looking over Lane Ends Lane and Ibbotroyd Clough.

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In the centre of the photo is Foster Mill and above it Hollins and on the top of the hillside houses in Heptonstall.

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The gable end immediately behind the horse is Middle Nook.
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