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Looking down Hebden Water towards its confluence with the Calder. The buildings immediate right have been replaced by purpose built shops and offices and above them the former Council Offices. The chimney of Bridge Mill on the left.

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Looking towards Mytholmroyd. Princes Bridge carries traffic to Hebden Bridge Station over the Rochdale Canal at Machpelah.

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The Old Bridge onto Bridge Gate. The buildings seen either side have now gone. The house on the left of the bridge used to store their coal under the arch at this end of the bridge.

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The lean to structures on the right have all gone. The Council Offices are on the left and the big chimney is for Bridge Mill.

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The white building on the left has been demolished and has been replaced by a courtyard area.

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Looking up towards the Old Bridge. The buildings on the right are on Bridge Gate.

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Mr Bird ran the carpet discount shop in Bridge Mill, he moved there from premises further down Bridge Gate.

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A corner of the Memorial Gardens near the bridge over the canal. Fairfield can be seen in the background. Donated by Janice Dobson

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ST. GEORGE'S BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge. was built in 1899, the cost being met by public subscription plus a grant from the West Riding County Council. The bridge had a very steep gradient, and before it was altered a chain horse was needed by loaded…

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NEW or WEST END BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge, was built about 1772 and has two arches of stone. It takes the main Lancashire road over the Hebden tributary of the Calder. An entry in the Todmorden Turnpike Trustees' records shows that on July 30th, 1835 the…

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HEPTON BRIDGE was written about by the late W.B. Crump at p121 in the 1924 HAS Transactions, in Part 111 of “Ancient Highways of the Parish of Halifax.”

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HEBBLE END BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge on the west side of Hebden Bridge. In the sixteenth century it was known as Litthouse Bridge from the dye¬house near at hand, referred to in the Heptonstall Parish Register as Litte-house. On April…

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The Civic Trust's annual clean-up of Hebden Water in the town centre seen here by the old packhorse bridge.

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Looking down from Victoria Road with the bridge over Hebden Water in the foreground. On the left part of Hangingroyd Mill in a state of dereliction, now the site of Waterside Fold. The buildings on the left have been partly demolished to widen the…

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Looking from the bridge over the Hebden Water at the top of Valley Road up to Heptonstall Hillside. On the right part of the mill on Victoria Road and in the centre the bridge where a mill building had straddled the river. On the left Shepherd's…

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Looking from the bridge over the Hebden Water at the top of Valley Road up to Heptonstall Hillside. On the right part of the mill on Victoria Road and in the centre the bridge where a mill building had straddled the river. On the left Shepherd's…

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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.

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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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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid 1960s as unfit for human habitation. Viewed here from The Buttress looking to the Old Bridge 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. The houses to the right of the bridge were demolished and replaced by a riverside walk.

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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…
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