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Stepping Stones, Hardcastle Crags - RUD00118
The gaily striped pavilion, a little downstream from Gibson Mill, was a popular venue for visitors to the Crags. Today the building remains but near derelict and the stepping stones have been dislodged by successive floods and not repaired.
Hardcastle Crags - RUD00114
Looking down the Drive to Gibson Mill, the refreshments kiosk is in the centre behind the trees. Postcard
Breck Mill, Hebden Bridge - RUD00112
Flood damage to the mill. Not a textile mill but a flour mill on Bridge Lanes, today the site of the Day Centre and car park. Photo taken late 1800s. From a stereographic photo.
Snow Scene, Hebden Bridge - JET00138
Looking from Keighley Road
On The Way to Blackshaw Head, February 1947 - ALC08077
Heavy snow had prevented provisions being delivered to Blackshaw Head, so this team is delivering 'relief' supplies to Blackshaw Head Co-op. They have come up Ragley and have just passed Hudson Mill on the way to the Devil's Elbow.
Hebden Bridge…
Hebden Bridge…
Lord Holme Mill [Gibson's Mill] c1910. - ALC08056
Gibson Mill began its life around 1803 as a water-powered spinning mill. Less than a hundred years later, it was called Lord Holme Mill, part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to the National Trust by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood…
Acre Mill, c1900 - ALC08010
Acre Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge
Evercreme Toffee Works, Brearley - ALC06362
Burnley Road at the top of Brearley Lane was the site of the Evercreme Toffee Works. On every 'Toyplane' toffee was printed a letter from the word 'Toyplane'. When you had collected all the letters you could send in the wrappers in exchange for a…
Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags - ALC06323
Gibson Mill began its life around 1803 as a water-powered spinning mill. Less than a hundred years later, it was called Lord Holme Mill, and part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to and restored by the National Trust by Abraham…
St Georges Bridge and the Council Offices, Hebden Bridge - ALC05853
To the left of the photo the building adjoining the Hebden Bridge Council Offices at one time housed the Hebden Bridge Library, it was removed as part of the Town Hall development, with the official opening of the new Waterfront Hall taking place on…
Storm Damage in Hebden Bridge - ALC05851
Seen through the up-turned market stall, on the left is Astin's sewing shop, site now occupied by the medical centre, and on the right the roof of the mortuary, with Nutclough Mill behind it.
View over Mytholm, c1900 - ALC05184
The house in the lower centre of the photo was a Lock Keeper's House on the Rochdale Canal. To the right-hand side of the Photo is Mytholm Hall with behind it the Parish Church of Hebden Bridge - St. James the Great, and behind that the two Eaves…
Hebden Bridge from Heptonstall road - ALC05180
The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen with the graveyard visible before it was colonised by trees. Being built is the new Birchcliffe Chapel which was completed in 1898. Chapel Avenue is just a building site!
Nutclough Mill is in the centre of…
Nutclough Mill is in the centre of…
Silk Mills, Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge - ALC05176
Silk Mills, Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge
Folly Mill and Cottages, Todmorden - ALC05169
Folly Mill, in Lumbutts Clough. Seen here in a derelict condition, it was demolished in the 1920s. The row of houses was known locally as Mouse Nest.
Jack Bridge Mill 1910 - ALC05168
In the foreground is Colden Water, the houses top right are Lower Smithy. Colden school is to the right of the mill chimney
Jack Bridge Mill - ALC05167
In the 1960's before Moderna Blankets a company called D.E.Stuttard Ltd made oil fired boilers called 'Desomatic'. R Thomas 01422 846392 as a brass plate which was attached to the boilers. Ref: 037.
Looking down onto Hebden Bridge - ALC05166
Nutclough Mill is in the centre of the picture, above its chimney is Sandy Gate, with the fields of Old town behind. Birchcliffe Chapel centre right. Source: Barbara Shepherd. Ref: At568BAS.
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - ALC05164
c1910. As we come down the hillside and along Heptonstall Road we pass Cross Lane Chapel (United Methodists) on the right of the picture. Further down the road we approach Queens Terrace and Albion Terrace.
On the left of the picture, beyond the…
On the left of the picture, beyond the…
Callis Mill, Charlestown c1930 - ALC05080
Obviously a time of drought judging by the level of the River Calder. It was originally, a water-powered cotton mill and at the time, the largest mill in Charlestown.
Jumble Hole Mill & Cottages, c1930 - ALC05079
Originally called Underbank Dyeworks it was used for dying silk, having two dye sheds. The remains of the mill dam which was fed by a goit from Jumble Hole Clough, can still be seen above the mill. nearby is Underbank Hall