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Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00176
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. The view here if of one of the maze of landings in the block accessed by external steps and alleys.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00177
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here shortly before demolition the view is if of one of the maze of external steps and alleys which provided access to the various…
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00178
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here some of the flights of external steps which provided access to the upper storeys.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00179
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here prior to demolition, a path to the top storey dwellings along with their privies.
Drawing of Buttress Brink - WSC00180
Drawing of Buttress Brink by W. Shepherd
Old Gate, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00181
Believed to be one of the oldest images of Hebden Bridge but date unknown.
Aerial View of Hebden Bridge - WSC00182
Date unknown but prior to the demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street, Garden Street and Buttress Brink in the mid-1960s.
Hebden Bridge General View. - WSC00183
Looking across from the Buttress to Nutclough Mill and chimney.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00184
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here one of the several yards and privies prior to demolition.
Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00185
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here one of the several alleyways linking the various dwellings and levels.
Heptonstall Old Church - WSC00186
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.
Hebden Water, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00187
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.
Hebden Bridge General View. - WSC00188
Looking across the town from Cross Lanes Chapel Grave Yard at the top of the Buttress. Date unknown but prior to demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street in 1965.
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.
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.
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - WSC00192
Looking across over Pallis House, centre bottom, with St Thomas RC Church and presbytery next to it. Date unknown but not a car to be seen but what appear to be open top trams on New Road which would date it pre- First World War.
The Buttress, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00193
View over the town from the Buttress with Buttress Brink tenements on the right, demolished 1967/8.
Co-op Weaving Shed, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00195
The weaving shed with its north lights roof and Hebden Water taken from Nutclough Mill. Victoria Road top centre going off to the left; top left part of Hangingroyd Mill, long demolished, and the single storey building in front of it is now the…
Hebden Bridge from Birchcliffe Road mid-1960s. - WSC00196
In the centre Lees Yard Car Park originally the site of the White Horse Hotel, demolished 1962. More or less in the centre the Town Hall with Bridge Mill and chimney to its right and to the left of the Town Hall the Hole-in-the-Wall and above that…
Hebden Bridge from Birchcliffe Road - WSC00197
In the centre Bridge Mill chimney
White Lion Inn, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00198
To its left Bridge Mill and chimney and left of that the Shoulder of Mutton.
Cross Lanes Chapel Grave Yard, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00199
View over the town from the Chapel Graveyard at the top of the Buttress. The Chapel closed in 1958 and was destroyed by fire in the mid-1960s. The debris here could be following demolition.
Pylons in the Snow - WSC00200
Unknown location but probably Upper Calder Valley.
Hebden Bridge from Horsehold - WSC00201
Looking down on the town with the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on the right, the mill itself was gutted by fire in November 1964. Heptonstall Road climbing the hillside in the centre but below it housing on High Street and on the north side of…