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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Camera Club - The Changing Face of Hebden Bridge

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Salem Sunday School on Bridge Lanes can be seen not long before its demolition c1962. At the top of the picture Hebble Bridge can be seen with the start of the roads to Fairfield to the left and Horsehold to the right.

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Taken probably in the 1960s before the canal was culverted at Hebble End Bridge.

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Beyond the bridge the road to Fairfield goes to the left whilst straight up leads to Horsehold.

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Foundation Stone Ceremony for Salem Sunday School, Hebden Bridge. The gentleman far right is Maurice Morgan, who was a lay preacher. Clerical gentleman R to L: Rev Ted Matkovitch, Rev Brian Holt, a previous minister at Salem; Rev Abraham Hall…

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Looking down Hebble Bridge towards Market Street, and the end of Hangingroyd Road. Queens Terrace is on the hillside above.

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Old Gate is to the left. Nickies Cafe was a popular haunt for young people in the 1950s. It was pulled down in the 1960s as part of the West End Improvement Area.

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The rear of Nickies Cafe, which was pulled down in the 1960s as part of the West End Improvement Area.

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The improved junction of old Gate and West End. The mill on Bridge Gate can be seen to the right hand edge of the picture, just to the left of it is Zion Chapel, and to the left of that is the parish church of St Johns.

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The little building to the left of the picture was an abattoir To the right is the rear of Westbourne House.

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Taken from Horsehold Road. The back of Salem Church is on the left and Melbourne Mill is on the right.

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The houses are shown here shortly before demolition.

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Blackburn's Ironmongers shop can be seen at the end of this block of shops on the corner of Holme Street. Photograph taken before New Road was widened at the junction with Bridge Gate.

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The Neptune Inn is on the right, centre is Melbourne Mill, and to the left is the rear of Salem Church. Brunswick Mill is to the top of the picture.

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Melbourne Mill is on the right. The buildings in the foreground have since been demolished

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The holly tress are still there (2014) but the inn has gone and the area is now a car park The water tower, seen here on the top on the left hand building on the corner of St Georges Square, has since been removed. Hangingroyd House can be seen part…
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