View from the bottom of School Street over Lees Yard and down Crown Street.
Mick Shepley believes the girl in the picture may well be his now wife, when she was about 13/14 in 1970. Her name then was Margaret (Maggie) Calver and she lived at 10…
On the right the Council Offices. The timber building on the left and the tall building the other side of the bridge have been demolished and the area opened up.
Date unknown but before the building in the centre at the junction of Bridge Gate and New Road was demolished in the 1930s for road widening. Blackburn's Ironmongers is on the end of the row of shops, and the window of Alice Longstaff's shop,…
The gentleman standing in the archway is Hebden Royd UDC Surveyor, Mr Moyse. The tenements on Old Gate at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in 1967 as being unfit for human habitation.
The steps, which are still there, lead from Bridge Lanes up to the now demolished High Street. There used to be a small stream that ran down the hillside which was also known as the cuckoo.
After the flood at the junction of Moss Lane and Hanginroyd Lane. The building on the left has had many uses: Pentecostal Church, at the time of this picture a school, and later an ice-cream factory.
Halifax Corporation tram in May 1911 just prior to the Hebden Urban District Council road widening improvements. Not much shelter from the elements for the driver. Commercial Street going off to the right.
Taken from Bridge Gate looking over to the site of the tenements known as Buttress Brink which were demolished in 1967. Both buildings seen here have also been demolished and the area opened up.