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Group portrait outside Birchcliffe Chapel - ALC09051
A wonderful picture, possibly of Sunday School scholars and teachers, from the days when chapel life was at the heart of the community.
Looking towards Towngate, Heptonstall - ALC09021
The building on the right is Royds Farm.
Blake Dean - ALC09017
Graining Water and Alcomden Water meet to become Hebden Beck, or Hebden Water, shown here. The Widdop Road is on the left of the picture and the building in the bend of the road is Blake Dean Chapel. Probably taken around 1900 before the…
Dusty Miller. Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd - ALC08277
The buildings on the right were demolished in 2017/8 as part of the Flood Prevention Scheme in Mytholmroyd, following the floods of Boxing Day 2015. The tram service along the Calder Valley was ended in 1936 so this picture pre-dates that.
Towngate, Heptonstall - ALC08261
The building on the right was the Heptonstall Co-operative Industrial Society - built on the site of 7 former cottages on Church Street. The Co-op was established in 1860, in rented premises and moved into a new shop in 1866. Note the glass structure…
Outing to Hardcastle Crags, c1900 - ALC08057
Albion Barker b. 1879 standing 5th from left.
Probably Unitarian Church outing to Hardcastle Crags c1900.
Probably Unitarian Church outing to Hardcastle Crags c1900.
Acre Mill, c1900 - ALC08010
Acre Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge
St John the Baptist, Cragg Vale, c1900 - ALC06340
In 1813 they laid the foundation stone of a small church at Marshaw Bridge. The building was completed 1815. There was accommodation for 250, but it soon became inadequate and was in a state of disrepair.
1838 New church commenced.
1839 Church of St.…
1838 New church commenced.
1839 Church of St.…
Greenwood Cottage, near Wainsgate, Wadsworth, c1900 - ALC06335
The lady and gentleman are Mr and Mrs Crossley Ashworth, and the children are Alice and Thomas Ashworth.
Top o'th Town, Heptonstall, c1900 - ALC06327
The shop on the right was both a grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The Stepping Stones, Mytholmroyd - ALC06326
The building on the left is the rear of the "Shoulder of Mutton" Inn. The remnants of the steps down to the stepping stones had been saved and located outside a house adjacent to the pub but were lost in the flood prevention work in 2018. The…
The Chalet, Hardcastle Crags c1900 - ALC06320
One of the many tea rooms in Hardcastle Crags.
Hardcastle Crags, c1900 - ALC06319
Sunday afternoon in Hardcastle Crags
A young Alice Longstaff in a school play - ALC06252
Possibly Aladdin judging by the wonderful costumes. The actors are: Alice Speak (Longstaff), Clement Rawsthorn, Alice Horsfall (later mother of Bernard Ingham), Willie Rawsthorn, either Phyllis (sister of Clement and Willie) or Alice Rawsthorn, Lily…
View over Mytholm, c1900 - ALC05184
The house in the lower centre of the photo was a Lock Keeper's House on the Rochdale Canal. To the right-hand side of the Photo is Mytholm Hall with behind it the Parish Church of Hebden Bridge - St. James the Great, and behind that the two Eaves…
Central Board School, Hebden Bridge, 1900 - ALC05181
Central Board School was the second Board School in Hebden Bridge. (Stubbings, 1878 was the first), and was opened in July 1884 as the Todmorden United District Hebden Bridge Central Board School. Originally it was a one—storey building and the…
Stubbings Landslide, 1903 - ALC05179
The wall at the bottom of Keighley Road bearing a poster dated 1903. Behind you can just see Stubbings School which was opened in 1878.
Westerman's Studio, West End, Hebden Bridge - ALC05173
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…
Building Caldene Bridge, Mytholmroyd - ALC05077
Construction of the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…
Caldene Bridge, Mytholmroyd - ALC05076
The newly constructed the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…