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The Choir of Slack Chapel, Heptonstall. - DEF00204
Heptonstall Slack Baptist Chapel Choir c.1909, taken to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Choirmaster, William Greenwood, nickname William the Singer.
Bottom row from left: Sarah Pickles, unknown, Francis Greenwood who was killed in the First…
Bottom row from left: Sarah Pickles, unknown, Francis Greenwood who was killed in the First…
Edgar Thornber - THB00111
Edgar started the firm of Thornber Bros in 1907.
Demolition Jack Bridge Mill, between Heptonstall and Blackshawhead. - DEF00124
This mill was built as a steam powered mill in 1861 and was the last mill to be built in the Colden Valley.
Rochdale Road, Todmorden, 1905/6 - TNC00422.tif
Cable laying on Rochdale Road.
Lower Laithe, Todmorden 1905/6 - TNC00421.tif
Cable laying
Handloom Weaver c.1900, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00161
"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…
Hebden Bridge Station - WSC00155
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.…
Linden Mill, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00143
The mill behind Hangingroyd Lane is now known as the Artsmill founded in 2003. Originally it was a purpose built clothing factory, c.1905, producing ready made fustian garments, that is heavy cotton workware such as corduroys and moleskins for which…
Todmorden Co-op 1901 ad - MOT00459
Todmorden Industrial and Co-operative Society advertisement 1901
Luddendenfoot Railway Station c.1900. - WAO00250
A permanent way ganger maintaining the track. A station opened at Luddendenfoot at the same time as the line in October 1840 although the buildings seen here are much later. The station was closed in 1962.
Dog Bridge, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00237
Postcard with pencil note on the reverse: ' July 8th 1908. Student's Association Ramble'. The image shows the old clapper bridge in Turvin Clough, Cragg Vale.
Cragg Vale - WAO00226
Postcard with January 1906 postmark. Cragg Post Office is on the left and further along Cragg Vale Co-operative store with the Working Men's Club next door to that.
New Cragg Hall, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00223
Postcard with September 1906 postmark. Not to be confused with 'Old' Cragg Hall. The New Hall, or Lower Cragg Hall to distinguish it from Old Cragg Hall, was enlarged and embellished built around 1904 and was destroyed by fire in 1921 with a re-build…
General View of Hebden Bridge - WAO00217
Postcard with April 1905 postmark and the image is prior to the construction of the new Birchcliffe Chapel in 1897/8. The gable end of Palace House can just be seen on the left.
Hebden Bridge General View. c1900 - WAO00215
Postcard with December 1904 postmark.
Mytholmroyd. - WAO00191
Townscape prior to construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908 but after the arrival of the trams in 1901. On the hillside is Scout Road School and along the bottom the Rochdale Canal.
Hebden Bridge. - WAO00187
Undated postcard. The image is probably early 20th century. Right of centre is Foster Mill and dam with Hebden Water below it. The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen on the hillside above town.
Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd, - WAO00183
Halifax Corporation trams reached Mytholmroyd in 1901 and were withdrawn in 1936.
Tythe Barn, Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge, c. 1909. - WAO00182
The gentleman with the horse is George William Thomas, son of James Farrar Thomas. The building on the right was the Tythe Barn. It became a pub and restaurant of that name, later changed to The Thirsty Turtle, now a private house. Behind it is…
Mytholmroyd General View. - WAO00178
Undated postcard but the image is prior to the construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908. Prominent left of centre is the Primitive Methodist Zion Chapel.
Railway at Mytholmroyd - WAO00175
Unknown locomotive heading from Mytholmroyd towards Hebden Bridge. The line had been increased to four tracks between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd in 1906 but reverted to two tracks in the 1980s.
Railway at Mytholmroyd - WAO00174
The York-Liverpool express double headed by Stanier Class 'Black 5' 44782 and 44987 passing through Mytholmroyd 30th September 1961. The line had been increased to four tracks between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd in 1906 but reverted to two tracks…
Railway at Mytholmroyd - WAO00172
The York-Liverpool express double headed by Stanier Class 'Black 5' 44782 and 44987 passing through Mytholmroyd 30th September 1961. The line had been increased to four tracks between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd in 1906 but reverted to two tracks…
Parrock Clough, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00171
Postcard date stamped February 1906.