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Cragg Hall, Cragg Vale, After the Fire - HBC00862
August 11th, 1921 a fire broke out which destroyed the Hall.
New Road, Hebden Bridge, 1950 - HBC00848
On the left is Hope Baptist Church and on right is the number 15 bus from Leeds to Burnley, its destination indicator shows the principal intermediate points on the route - Dudley Hill, Halifax, Hebden Bridge. The winding handle for the destination…
Construction of Gorple Reservoir, Heptonstall, 1928 - HBC00842
Tunnel under the dam under construction with construction workers.
Construction of New Wall in Cragg Vale, 1958 - HBC00815
The road was widened using land from Thornber's Hatchery. Mr K. Hirst seen working here. The man behind him is Mr Kenyon.
Construction of New Wall in Cragg Vale, 1958 - HBC00814
The road was widened using land from Thornber's Hatchery. Mr Kenyon seen working here.
Bankfoot Mill - Interior Processing - HBC00514
Crabtree Bros. Drying moleskins on last day of production 17th January 1969.
Bankfoot Mill - Interior Processing - HBC00513
Crabtree Bros. Size mixing vats on last day of production 17th January 1969.
Bankfoot Mill - Interior Processing - HBC00512
Crabtree Bros. Size mixing vats on last day of production 17th January 1969.
John Pickles & Sons, Mytholm - DEP00430
Leaving work, c1960
John Pickles & Sons, Mytholm - DEP00429
Derek Pollard and Roy Baker, May 1957
Graham and Normanton, Halifax - DEP00268
Break time in the assembly shop. Extreme right is Derek Pollard a machine tool fitter who lived in Hebden Bridge, next to him is Graiger Lee centre lathe turner who lived in Cragg Vale . c1966
Computer Controlled Lathe. - DEP00195
Derek Pollard with the lathe in the fitting shop of Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd in 1998.
School holidays - DEP00187
Derek Pollard ready for work on Mr John Butterworth's Old Town Hall Farm, c1950.
Acre Mill Canteen Staff, Old town - DEP00186
The BBC broadcast a "Workers Playtime" from the canteen in the 1950s.
Acre Mill Canteen Staff - DEP00184
The BBC broadcast a Worker's Playtime from the canteen in the 1950s. Part of the mill can be seen in the background. Lily Young is front row left hand side, back row left hand side is Mrs Gough whose husband worked in the mill..
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00155
Derek Pollard at the big planing machine in its special pit. 1998. See DEP00176 for picture of the pit during demolition.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00154
Leo Nicol, crane driver, in fitting shop. Leo was not tall enough for the army so he was a Bevan Boy and worked in a coal mine driving an electric narrow gauge railway engine. He then worked t Hebden Bridge gas works, then driving a crane in the…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00152
Broadbent's hollow spindle lathe threading a drill at Weir Engineering, Doha, Qatar. Graham King is the machinist. 1979.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00151
Derek Pollard, fitter, in the machine shop, June 1998. Note the big planer at the far end. The planer was fitted into an 8 feet (2.5 m) deep pit so that it would clear the overhead crane. Due to the water table level in this area, a water pump had…
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00150
Alan Beardsley in the fitting shop. June 1998.
Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd - DEP00149
Ronnie Robinson working his Horizontal Boring machine. June 1998.