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The Buttress, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00193
View over the town from the Buttress with Buttress Brink tenements on the right, demolished 1967/8.
The Buttress, Hebden Bridge c1967. - WSC00104
Taken just before Buttress Brink on the left was demolished. The building far right is now the site of the Hebden Bridge Health Centre, used by Social Services, not to be confused with Valley Medical Centre on Valley Road. The medical centre did move…
Terrace Houses. - WSC00220
Location not known but believed to be Hebden Bridge.
Steps at Birchcliffe, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00167
Top of the '100 Steps' coming up from Commercial Street to the bottom of Marlborough Road.
St James the Great, Hebden Bridge - WSC00191
Hebden Bridge's Parish Church situated out of the town to the west at Mytholm. One of the so called 'million pound' churches it was built on land donated by the Rev. John Armytage Rhodes of adjacent Mytholm Hall. it was consecrated in 1933.
Snow Scene at Heptonstall - WSC00136
The 'new' Victorian Church is on the left and the tower of the ruined medieval church to the right.
Shepherds Lorries, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00252
The vehicles are parked up in the disused yard of Hangingroyd Mill. The people in the centre are walking across the bridge over the river at the top of Valley Road. The yard is now site of Waterside Fold. Above is Nutclough Mill and above that double…
Shepherds Lorries, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00251
The vehicles in the foreground are on the yard of the derelict Hangingroyd Mill. The yard is now largely site of Waterside Fold. The vehicles across the road are in the yard of Hebden Shed or Works with Nutclough Mill above and above that double…
Shepherd's Lorries, Valley Road, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00248
The vehicles in the foreground are on the yard of the derelict Hangingroyd Mill and the mill building on the left is straddling the river. The yard is now largely site of Waterside Fold. The vehicles across the road are in the yard of Hebden Shed or…
Shepherd's Lorries, Hebden Bridge - WSC00242
The lorries parked in the yard of the derelict Hangingroyd Mill now site of Waterside Fold at the top of Valley Road. The vehicle facing the camera, Curly, has a 1978/9 registration plate.
Shepherd's Lorries, Hebden Bridge - WSC00241
The lorries parked in the yard of the derelict Hangingroyd Mill now site of Waterside Fold at the top of Valley Road. The vehicle facing the camera has a 1978/9 registration plate.
Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge - WSC00147
Rear of Oldfield Watson's yard on the left, Crossley Mill Terrace and Machpelah beyond. The buildings on the canal bank up to the old chimney were all demolished in 1984 to make way for the new Marina. The chimney remains by the boiler house itself…
Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge - WSC00121
Black Pit Lock prior to restoration in the mid-1980s. On the right the Central Dye Works is now apartments with an extra storey added. This shows the aqueduct which carries the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder.
Rear of Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00189
From Old Gate looking at the back of Bridge Gate. All the buildings seen here on the river bank have been demolished to make way for the riverside path and Bridge Gate car park.
Pylons in the Snow - WSC00200
Unknown location but probably Upper Calder Valley.
Oldfield Watson's Yard, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00135
This is an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and…
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and…
Old Gate, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00181
Believed to be one of the oldest images of Hebden Bridge but date unknown.
Old Farm Machinery, Erringden Moor, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00149
To the right of the tree Heptonstall Church is just visible.
Nutclough, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00235
The hotel sign is on the wall of the former Nutclough House Hotel and above it are Eiffel Buildings with on the right houses on Keighley Road.
Nutclough, Hebden Bridge - WSC00218
The hotel on the left is the former Nutclough House pub and above it the double-decker Eiffel Buildings on the road which runs down to join Keighley Road where vehicles can be seen.
Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00166
The Hebden Water flowing below the mill.
Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge - WSC00268
Nutclough Mill in the centre with double-decker houses on streets off Birchcliffe Road above it. To the left of the river part of Hangingroyd Mill with to the right the demolition site of another part of the mill which had partly straddled the river.
Nutclough mill and Weaving Shed, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00202
Built by the Hebden Bridge Fustian Manufacturing Society a commercially successful co-operative. It was taken over by the Co-operative Wholesale Society after the First World War. Production of fustians ceased in the 1960s. Today it is once again…
Nutclough from Keighley Road, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00100
Hebden Water below the huge retaining wall supporting Keighley Road. When the turnpike was built c.1815 a shelf was cut out of the cliff to accommodate it.
