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Cragg Vale Church and School, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00236
In the centre, below the Board School, i.e. Council School, is Church Bank Mill with its very tall chimney. At the bottom of the picture is the church of St John the Baptist. The postcard has an intriguing title.
Cragg Road, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00225
On the left is the Sportsman Inn which closed many years ago and now a private house. On the right, by the lamp post, is the road down to St John's Church, and the Hinchliffe Arms. In the centre is the Board, ie Council, School. The car has a…
General View Hebden Bridge. - WAO00219
Undated postcard. Towards top left is Cross Lanes Chapel which was destroyed by fire in the mid-1960s having closed for worship in 1958.
Mytholmroyd Town Scenes. - WAO00170
Pre-1961 postcard. Top left the War Memorial in front of Grange Dene House, now site of the Health Centre. Bottom left Calder High School, opened 1950.
Mytholmroyd from Scout. - WAO00141
Centre left is Calder High School which opened in 1950. It was the West Riding's first Comprehensive School.
Mytholmroyd, Looking South from Heights Road - WAO00138
Date unknown but Calder High School is in the centre and this opened in 1950, the West Riding's first Comprehensive School.
Mytholmroyd Townscape - WAO00106
Undated postcard but Calder High School, top centre, is under construction and although work on the school started before the war, it did not open until 1950, it was the West Riding's first comprehensive school. Redman's Scarbottom Mill, with its…
General View over Hebden Bridge - RAW00111
Date unknown. Noticeable in the centre are the arches of Stubbings School and next to it on the left is St John's Church, demolished in the 1980s. The 4 storeyed mill bottom centre was known as Melbourne Mill, which was demolished in 1983, now the…
Jack Bridge Mill and Weaving Sheds - RAW00110
At the top of Colden Clough was Jack Bridge Mill. Production at the mill ceased early 20th century but it wasn't demolished until many years later. Colden School is to the left of the road. On the left of the picture you can just make out Broadstone…
General View over Hebden Bridge - RAW00103
Date unknown but between construction of Riverside School in 1908/9 and the Picture House in 1921. The dark wooden building on the other side of the road to Hope Chapel was the Black & White Cafe.
Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall - KEC00358
Heptonstall School, opened in 1879, is on the left. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Hebden Bridge from Horsehold, 1960s. - KEC00106
The chimney of Calder Mill can be seen prominently on the left. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Cornholme Board School - MCR00127
Taken after 1916 and before 1923. A lot of these pupils came from Robinwood. Sitting front left is Alice Crowther.
Cornholme Board School c. 1922 - MCR00118
Teachers: Mr J. Briggs and Miss Townsend
Back row - L to R
Lilian Crabtree, Florence Thomas, Vera Hirst, ? , Alice Dawson, Violetta Greenlees, Rebecca Holden?, Elizabeth Higgin, Alice Greenlees, Millie Jowett (next to Mr. Briggs)
Between…
Back row - L to R
Lilian Crabtree, Florence Thomas, Vera Hirst, ? , Alice Dawson, Violetta Greenlees, Rebecca Holden?, Elizabeth Higgin, Alice Greenlees, Millie Jowett (next to Mr. Briggs)
Between…
Vale School Play - MCR00112
"A Midsummer Night's Dream". Mabel Ormerod, Janet Mallison, Vera Hirst, Alice Dawson.
Black Pit Lock, Hebden Bridge - JET00117
Work on the Rochdale Canal prior to its re-opening for navigation.
Hebden Bridge Grammar School, Class 3A - ALC06365
An article in the Hebden Bridge times of 29th November 1996 gave the following identification: back row, left to right: Geoffrey Greenwood, Peter
Rushworth, Roland Greenwood, Geoffrey Peter Naylor (who lives in Manchester), Norman H. Wilcock (now of…
Rushworth, Roland Greenwood, Geoffrey Peter Naylor (who lives in Manchester), Norman H. Wilcock (now of…
View over Hebden Bridge, c1910. - ALC06003
Looking over Valley Road to the Stubbings hillside.
Central Board School, Hebden Bridge, 1900 - ALC05181
Central Board School was the second Board School in Hebden Bridge. (Stubbings, 1878 was the first), and was opened in July 1884 as the Todmorden United District Hebden Bridge Central Board School. Originally it was a one—storey building and the…
Stubbings Landslide, 1903 - ALC05179
The wall at the bottom of Keighley Road bearing a poster dated 1903. Behind you can just see Stubbings School which was opened in 1878.
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.
Todmorden Secondary School, Ferney Lee Road - ALC05137
The building was originally Todmorden Grammar, which brought us two Nobel Prize winners. In the late sixties or early seventies, Scaitcliffe School on the opposite side the Burnley Road was opened as a Secondary Modern School. Later the grammar…