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Mytholmroyd General View. - WAO00192
Postcard with April 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.
Mytholmroyd Looking South. - WAO00140
Undated postcard but probably c1930. The long, light coloured building is one of Thornber's poultry sheds.
Banks Fields, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00137
Postcard c.1930. Looking down on the Rochdale Canal.
Mytholmroyd Scenes. - WAO00129
Undated postcard. The centre picture shows tramlines on Burnley road, trams were withdrawn in 1936.
Mytholmroyd Scenes - WAO00124
Poatcard with1931 postmark. Top left a tram on Burnley Road, they were withdrawn in 1936. Top right Dauber Bridge on Cragg Road and bottom right Hawksclough and bridge over the River Calder.
Mytholmroyd Townscape - WAO00108
Postcard with 1938 postmark. Still a busy small mill town! Scarbottom Mill with its mill dam is to the right of centre, with Thornber's poultry sheds to the left. On the skyline towards the left is Midgley Methodist Chapel.
Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00102
Postcard postmarked 1913 looking in the Halifax direction. The Halifax Corporation Trams came to Mytholmroyd in 1901 and ceased running in 1936.
West End, Hebden Bridge - RAW00132
Date unknown but before the building in the centre at the junction of Bridge Gate and New Road was demolished in the 1930s for road widening. Blackburn's Ironmongers is on the end of the row of shops, and the window of Alice Longstaff's shop,…
Footbridge under Construction, Hebden Bridge. - RAW00108
The bridge over the Rochdale Canal, next to the Picture House, was constructed preparatory to the opening of the Memorial Garden in 1938 connecting it to Calder Holmes.
View over Hebden Bridge - RAW00106
Looking over to the Birchcliffe hillside with the distinctive arches of Stubbings School in the centre. To the left of the school is St John's C of E Church consecrated in 1931 but closed in the 1980s.
Bernard and Derek Ingham - ING00125
Bernard and brother Derek, Derek is in the pram, in about 1936 at Albion Terrace, Hebden Bridge.
Lady in Nurse's Uniform - EIL00540
Dated 13 September 1931.
On the Stepping Stones - EIL00141
Hardcastle Crags, possibly 1930s.
Pace Egg Play, St George's Square, Hebden Bridge - EIL00114
A traditional mummer's play. The Pace Egg Play, performed annually on Good Friday at various venues around Hebden Bridge. Revived locally around 1931and broadcast by the BBC. It's not clear who is in this photo, which is taken in St George's…
Lamp Lighter - JET00220
Shown on the right here, Willy was a lamp lighter and "knocker upper" in Shipley in the 1930s.
Evercreme Toffee Works, Brearley - ALC06362
Burnley Road at the top of Brearley Lane was the site of the Evercreme Toffee Works. On every 'Toyplane' toffee was printed a letter from the word 'Toyplane'. When you had collected all the letters you could send in the wrappers in exchange for a…
Stubbings School, Hebden Bridge - ALC06304
Photo taken in the late 30s/early 40s
Mr H Potts, headmaster in the centre.
Mr H Potts, headmaster in the centre.
Colin and Peter Greenwood, c1938 - ALC06105
Colin is on the left. He was born in 1936, 2 years after his brother . The family lived at 5 Eiffel Street, Hebden Bridge. Peter went to live in Australia and died there in 2016.
The Baileys - ALC06012
Kenneth, Dorothy and Donald Bailey who lived in Mytholmroyd. Probably taken in the late 1930s
St John's Church, Hebden Bridge - ALC06001
The foundation stone for this church was laid on 26th June 1929. The church opened on 6th May 1931. Those who gave money for the building included Mary Sowden.
The church became redundant in 1984 and is now private dwellings.
The pulpit and…
The church became redundant in 1984 and is now private dwellings.
The pulpit and…
David Walton - ALC05226
David Walton, 1938-1957 Only child of Frank and Olive Walton who ran a Newsagents shop on Commercial Street, Hebden Bridge. David was tragically killed in a motorbike accident, on his way to college in Halifax.
Brass Band in Grounds of Cragg Hall, 1935 - ALC05000
Cragg Vale and Mytholmroyd Public Subscription Band - First appearance in uniform September 1935.
The Construction of Gorple Reservoir - ALC04770
Gorple Lower and Upper Reservoir was completed in 1934 and has a capacity of 227.42 million gallons.
Irene Marshall with baby Judith - ALC04532
Taken in 1937. Irene's father was Herbert Culpan who owned Moderna.
Irene Culpen and Children - ALC04531
Centre: Valerie who became Mrs Kershaw, right Christine. Taken about 1939