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The new Woolshops are under construction at the bottom of the picture.

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This scene is almost unrecognisable from the Northgate of today as many of the buildings have since been demolished. The church building on the right appears to be Northgate End Chapel, built in 1871 and demolished in 1982.

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Many of the buildings have now gone but the Railway Hotel and the white building (still in use as a cafe) are still there. CMBC Ref 079273

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A view down Woolshops. All the buildings visible were later demolished and replaced.

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This building has seen various uses. It was originally built for the Halifax Mechanics Institute in 1856. At various times it has housed the Halifax School of Art, the first Halifax branch of the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Halifax's first cinema, known…

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This building is believed to have come from Dawson City, above Heptonstall, which was the hutted village for the workforce building the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. Seen here as a hardware shop, prior to this it housed the offices of a coal merchant.

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Looking from St Georges Street with Valley Road going off bottom right and the corner of the Council Offices on the left.

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Photo taken 1976 when Innovation relocated from 6-8 St Georges Square to the mill.

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Shop on the corner of St George's Square and Crown Street.

Originally built by Hebden Bridge Co-operative Society with the water tank above to also serve the main retail and social facilities on the other side of Crown Street. The water tank has…

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Mytholmroyd Co-op circa 1910. From left, Robert Boulton, Percy Horsfall, Fred Haigh, Fred Stansfield, Lewis Ackroyd and Bob Hartley. Inside the boy is Harry Greenwood and a man nicknamed "Luggage" so called because he once ran from Hollock Lea to the…

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This was probably to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. From a stereographic photograph.

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It's always fun to watch somebody else work! Has anyone any idea of date or location? From a stereographic photograph.
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