Three John Pickles employees, Tony Summerscales, apprentice foundary pattern maker (on left) Gainger Lee, apprentice centre lathe turner (centre) and Derek Pollard, apprentice fitter, on the right. c1959
Arthur Robertshaw, Stonemason at Oldfield Watson, Hebden Bridge.
Paul Watson recalls: I was working with Arthur when this photo was taken, he was putting the finishing touches to the parapet wall of the newly widened bridge. Arthur was probably…
Grade II
Accommodation bridge. Probably late C18 (described in a deed dated 1780 for Wheat Ing (q.v. as the New Bridge). Dressed stone. Single segmental arch with coped parapet.
NGR: SD9882130411
Historic England Listing No: 1227617
CMBC Ref:…
Seen here early 20th century on the NER’s Cross Gates – Wetherby line. This is the second station in Wetherby the first having been on the Church Fenton- Harrogate line but when the line from Cross Gates opened in 1876 it’s junction with the…
NEW or WEST END BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge, was built about 1772 and has two arches of stone. It takes the main Lancashire road over the Hebden tributary of the Calder. An entry in the Todmorden Turnpike Trustees' records shows that on July 30th, 1835 the…
A west bound goods train approaching Walsden Station. The station opened in 1845 and closed in 1961.
A new station with ‘bus stop’ style shelters was opened in 1990 but slightly to the east of the footbridge seen here to the right.
The building on the lower right of the picture was originally Hebden Bridge Grammar School, now Riverside Junior School, whilst towards the bottom left is the imposing Central Street School. On the Birchcliffe hillside the destinctive arches of…