Looking down to its junction with Valley Road. The mill building in the centre above the whitewashed cottage was part of Hangingroyd Mill now site of Waterside Fold.
At the far end is Breck Mill originally occupied by Sowerby Bridge Flour Society. The mill burnt down as the result of the fire, believed to have been stared deliberately, in 1971. The upper floors of the buildings on the left were demolished after a…
The mill behind Hangingroyd Lane is now known as the Artsmill founded in 2003. Originally it was a purpose built clothing factory, c.1905, producing ready made fustian garments, that is heavy cotton workware such as corduroys and moleskins for which…
Looking down from Sandy Gate over Ibbotroyd Clough to houses on Heptonstall Road with Hebden Bridge itself largely out of sight in the valley bottom. In the centre of the photo is the landmark chimney of Calder Mill and to its left Horsehold Road…
An engraving before the old medieval church dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett was replaced by a new church, unusually in the same churchyard, dedicated in a more protestant tradition to St Thomas the Apostle.
Viewed from West End Bridge looking upstream towards the Old Bridge. All the buildings on the right-hand river bank have now gone making way for the riverside path and car park on Bridge Gate.
Looking upstream from West End Bridge with Old Gate on the left and on the right the rear of now demolished buildings on Bridge Gate. Above these is St John's Church now replaced by housing. Only the cottages in the centre on the left have been…