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Hebden Bridge - View from Wood Top, c1900 - ALC00413
View across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, wedged between Victoria Mill to its right and the large railway warehouse to the left and beyond it Crossley Mill. Bottom right the Crow Nest Works of the joint…
Hebden Bridge - General View - ALC00412
Date unknown but probably late 1940s/early 1950s as the first steel pre-fabricated houses at Dodnaze on Wadsworth Lane can be seen. Central Street and Riverside Schools feature prominently
Hebden Bridge - General View. - ALC00409
ALC00409. In the foreground is Riverside School , opened in 1909. The the building on what is now the Memorial Gardens is the black and white cafe.
Hebden Bridge - General Town View. - ALC00407
ALC00407. General town view c.1900. The new Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel (1899) just visible on the righthand hillside above Stubbings School but Riverside School (1908/9) being built on the land above the houses in the foreground. The Council Offices…
Hebden Bridge - Mytholm, c1910 - ALC00390
Looking across Mytholm to the Steeps up to Blackshawhead. In the foreground the canal and towpath and centre right Mytholm Hall is just visible. In the foreground Stubbings Holme Dyeworks and above it Brown's factory, both now long gone.
Hebden Bridge - Mytholm - ALC00389
The blocks of flats at Mytholm Close, replaced early 21st with houses. Behind left is Bankfoot Mill which was demolished in 1971 and centre right Bridge Lanes and the bottom of Heptonstall Road.
Hebden Bridge - Stubbings Steps - ALC00369
Stubbings Steps from School Street down to Commercial Street in the 1950s. The building at the bottom was originally the toll bar house on the Lees and Hebden Bridge Turnpike Road.
Recalling the days of moody black and white films such as “Room at…
Recalling the days of moody black and white films such as “Room at…
Hebden Bridge - White Horse Hotel - ALC00368
The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, it closed 1960, and on the Monday afternoon of 26th November, 1962, demolition workers were sending the walls of the White Horse Hotel crashing to the ground. A few hours later, across the street…
Hebden Bridge - Albert Street - ALC00367
ALC00367.Top of Albert Street at its junction with Garden Street. This section of Albert Street was at one time called Victoria Street - the sign for this can be seen on one of the stones to the right of the long sign above the shop window. The sign…
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Square - ALC00366
St Georges Square looking across to the Shoulder of Mutton and behind can be seen partially demolished buildings on Buttress Brink.. The car in the foreground has a 1968/9 'G' registration number. Note the water tank on the top of the building on the…
Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe - ALC00365
Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Square - ALC00364
From the Square looking up to Keighley Road; on the left Bridge Mill, used by Chorlton Bros., Wholesale Clothiers, and beyond that the White Lion and opposite it the junction of Bridge Gate with Commercial Street before it was re-aligned 1964/65 to…
Hebden Bridge - Hangingroyd Lane - ALC00363
Hangingroyd Lane about 1962; on the right Market Place before landscaping.
Hebden Bridge - Calder Holmes - ALC00354
c1929. Hebden Bridge Agricultural Show. Hebden Bridge Urban District Council purchased Calder Holmes Park in 1931 to be an open space for the town. Here we have an uninterrupted view across to Riverside School prior to the building of the Little…
Hebden Bridge - New Road - ALC00350
ALC00350. Looking towards West End. Timothy Whites was taken over by Boots in 1968 and most stores closed and in 1976 the one seen here became the Tourist Information Centre and is now AJs Fish & Chips. Next to it is the Yorkshire Bank, now…
Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot - ALC00344
Bankfoot Garage, with a single petrol pump, looking up towards buildings on Heptonstall Road. The left-hand drive car by the garage has a post-1921 Leeds registration number.
Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot - ALC00343
ALC00343. Left-hand drive car at the bottom of Bankfoot looking up to Bridge Lanes.
Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot, c1930 - ALC00342
Looking down towards Bankfoot with well spaced gas lamps. Bankfoot House on the left and Bankfoot Dyeworks centre right. The days before 'smoke free zones' with smoke coming from the chimneys of several houses on the hillside. The car, perhaps being…
Hebden Bridge - Heptonstall Road - ALC00341
Looking up Heptonstall Road with Bridge Lanes going down to the right before demolition in 1964. The 'Fox & Goose' far left.
Hebden Bridge - Market Street, 1955 - ALC00339
Looking from West End and Market Street is still the town's main shopping street. Shops on the left: unnamed selling fire surrounds; J E Greaves, Baker & Confectioner, with his van outside; J Robertshaw, Newsagent & Stationer; C L Shaw followed by…
Hebden Bridge - West End - ALC00331
West End looking towards New Road. Date unknown but the car has a post-1921 Leeds registration number. From the far end the shops are: first three Blackburn Ironmongers; Haighs Music Shop; Westerman's Photographic Studio; Cockcrofts and Watsons. On…
Hebden Bridge - Station Road - ALC00321
An open top tram on Burnley Road looking up Station Road to the large station warehouse, early 20th century. The Halifax Corporation trams reached Hebden Bridge in November 1901. This postcard may have been taken to commemorate the inaugural run.
Horse drawn barge on Rochdale Canal. - ALC00251
Photo taken behind Burnley Road school, looking towards Mytholmroyd. The barge has just been through Broadbottom lock. The building on the left is part of the sewerage works and the gas holder can be seen in the distance.
Acre Mill, Billy Lane, Wadswoth - ALC00249
Across the centre is Acre Mill of Cape Asbestos. Known as 'The Killer Mill' after the asbestosis suffered by its workers due to breathing in asbestos dust. It closed in 1970 and was demolished in 1979 apart from the building seen down the centre of…
Rochdale Canal Restoration Hebden Bridge - ALC00245
Restoration work on the Rochdale Canal showing the dry dock.