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  • Collection: W. Shepherd collection

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Rear of the 'top and bottom' terraced houses on Bridge Lanes with the River Calder on the left.

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Taken from Horsehold, before the demolition of High Street and the north side of Bridge Lanes in the mid-1960s. The flats at Mytholm, bottom left corner, built in 1968 still look very new. Old Town and mill along the top hillside.

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Taken from the Old Bridge looking towards the Birchcliffe hillside with Bridge Gate is in the foreground. The building with the corrugated roof was for many years Albert Fielden's bookies shop whilst on Bridge Gate the building with the shutters at…

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A famous photo of the station area about 1900. Bottom right the Municipal Gas Works at Crow Nest, above it Mayroyd Mill and then the five storey Victoria Mill with the small station dwarfed by it and the large station warehouse on the other side.…

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Above the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on Stubbing Holme.

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Looking across from Union Street on the Birchcliffe Hillside to terraces off Palace House Road along with the abattoir. In the centre Croft Mill and chimney.

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The tree bridges, St Georges Bridge, Old Bridge and West End Bridge. The buildings on the right of the river bank this side of the bridge have all been replaced with a purpose built office and shop block. On the hillside to the left of the chimney is…

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Taken from the top of the tower of the new church. This old medieval church was replaced by the new church in the same churchyard in the 1850s.

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"The decline of handloom weaving was a long process and it was not until the 1830s that power-loom weaving began to seriously displace the hand loom weavers. After 1841 each national census for Hebden Bridge shows a shrinking number of handloom…

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Opposite the Parish Church, the buildings on the left remain but the farm buildings have gone and are now replaced by the sheltered housing of Mytholm Meadows.

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Top of the '100 Steps' coming up from Commercial Street to the bottom of Marlborough Road.

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Outside toilets at the time the tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s.

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On the left the Co-op Department Store (now Carlton Buildings) and clock.

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here from Hangingroyd Lane with the Hole-in-the-Wall on the left.

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here from an alleyway looking towards the Hole-in-the-Wall.

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The steps to the tenements at the bottom of the Buttress which were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation.

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here probably not long before demolition from Hangingroyd Lane looking up the Buttress with Royd Terrace on the right.
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