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View from Birchcliffe Road down to the junction of Bridge Gate and Keighley Road.

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Looking from West End Bridge towards Old Bridge with Old Gate on the left and the rear of buildings on Bridge Gate on the right.

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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…

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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.

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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,…

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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.

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This picture was taken in December 1958 when demolition of the north side had just started. Above it is High Street which has also been demolished.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Following demolition of the White Horse Inn in 1962 the site was converted into a car park.

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Looking down from Birchcliffe Road. Crown Street going off centre left with a gap between buildings where there has been demolition.

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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.

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Taken in the 1960s. The single storey buildings on the right have been demolished.

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Taken in the 1960s. The open shed building on the right has now been opened up into a small square with shops.

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Taken in the 1960s. The road is now pedestrianised and the single story buildings centre right have been demolished.
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