Looking down from about the bottom of Birchcliffe Road. Demolition started on 26th November 1962. The site now Lees Yard and the holly trees remain in 2015. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The hotel in course of demolition in 1962. Above it the Co-op Building, now Carlton Buildings, and clock tower. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The hotel in course of demolition in 1962. Above it the Co-op Building, now Carlton Buildings, and clock tower. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, although Barry Ledgard tells us that a licensee of the White Horse Inn, William Jackson, was charged with running a stage carriage without a licence, every Market day, to Halifax, and was caught…
There had been an inn on this site since 1851. The White Horse Hotel closed its doors 1960 and was demolished in 1962, the site is now a car park. There are two holly trees and these still remain.
Undated postcard. This farm was in Crimsworth Dean below Pecket Well, and the occupiers were obviously taking advantage of the large numbers of visitors to the area to earn some extra money from refreshments, as did many others.
Crossley Westerman was born in Hebden Bridge in 1861, the youngest of the three children of Henry and Sarah Westerman. Crossley’s father died in 1873 and his mother was left to bring up the family on her own. She opened a toyshop at West End, Hebden…