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The narrow valley floor is shared by Rochdale Canal, the River Calder and the railway line.

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The part derelict and part demolished mill buildings on Valley Road/Moss Lane seen here from the rear. The detritus in the foreground is on the site of one of the mill buildings which straddled Hebden Water to connect the two parts of the mill on…

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The part derelict and part demolished mill buildings on Valley Road/Moss Lane seen here from the rear. The detritus in the foreground is on the site of one of the mill buildings which straddled Hebden Water to connect the two parts of the mill on…

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Looking down from Victoria Road with the bridge over Hebden Water in the foreground. On the left part of Hangingroyd Mill in a state of dereliction, now the site of Waterside Fold. The buildings on the left have been partly demolished to widen the…

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Looking from the bridge over the Hebden Water at the top of Valley Road up to Heptonstall Hillside. On the right part of the mill on Victoria Road and in the centre the bridge where a mill building had straddled the river. On the left Shepherd's…

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Looking from the bridge over the Hebden Water at the top of Valley Road up to Heptonstall Hillside. On the right part of the mill on Victoria Road and in the centre the bridge where a mill building had straddled the river. On the left Shepherd's…

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Looking across Hebden Water to a derelict part of the mill with the former mill yard being used for rough parking, now the site of Waterside Fold. Far left another part of one of the mill buildings.

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Nutclough Mill in the centre with double-decker houses on streets off Birchcliffe Road above it. To the left of the river part of Hangingroyd Mill with to the right the demolition site of another part of the mill which had partly straddled the river.

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The mill was on both sides of the river connected by a building on a bridge from where this photo was taken. A disused part of Hangingroyd Mill on the right and the former mill yard on the left, now site of Waterside Fold.

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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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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 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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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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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…

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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.

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Believed to be one of the oldest images of Hebden Bridge but date unknown.

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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…

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Rear of the 'top and bottom' terraced houses on Bridge Lanes with the River Calder on the left.

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid 1960s as unfit for human habitation. The houses to the right of the bridge were demolished and replaced by a riverside walk.

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Looking upstream from West End Bridge with Old Gate on the left and on the right the rear of now demolished buildings on Bridge Gate. Above these is St John's Church now replaced by housing. Only the cottages in the centre on the left have been…

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Hebden Water below the huge retaining wall supporting Keighley Road. When the turnpike was built c.1815 a shelf was cut out of the cliff to accommodate it.
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