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Stansfield Corn Mill - MOT00320
Stansfield Corn Mill showing later additions, including the detached office building.
Originally owned by Messrs. Thompson, the business was taken over by the Sutcliffe family around 1856.
Sutcliffe's bought grain at the ports of Liverpool,…
Originally owned by Messrs. Thompson, the business was taken over by the Sutcliffe family around 1856.
Sutcliffe's bought grain at the ports of Liverpool,…
West End, Hebden Bridge - ALC00221
Circa 1930. The first building on the left is on the end of Bridge Gate and was partly demolished when New Road was widened in 1931. The remaining part of the building is now Holt's Greengrocers.
1930's Advertisements - GMA00104
Advertisements from the 1930s. Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book"A Village Childhood"
A Family Outing - LLG00140
Probably the 1930s.
A Floodlit Ryburn Dam, Halifax - DPC00149
Ryburn Reservoir is a supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the lower of two reservoirs built to supply Wakefield with water. Started in 1925 it was completed in 1933 and has…
A Hopper Opener at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00117
This look like a woollen card hopper, but actually the photo was taken in the Blowing Room and shows a hopper opener, feeding a line of machines leading to the scutcher. Cotton comes in press-packed bales, and it must be loosened up or 'opened' and…
After the Fire - LLG00100
This house, Mayroyd Mill House, was deluged with water when firemen fought a fire which destroyed the nearby Mayroyd Mill, on 10th February 1936. Overnight the water froze. Lloyd Greenwood, the boy looking at the camera, and his friends, stopped to…
Archie Wild Hand Cutting Corduroy, c1930 - CWS00128
At Nutclough Mill.
Banks Fields, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00137
Postcard c.1930. Looking down on the Rochdale Canal.
Beaming at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00112
Winding the warp yarns, in one winding operation, onto the weaving beam.
Beaming or Warping at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00110
The picture shows the Warping or Beaming department, technically this is back beam warping, the usual practice in the cotton industry, as opposed to section warping in the woollen and worsted trades. A very large unit!
Bernard and Derek Ingham - ING00125
Bernard and brother Derek, Derek is in the pram, in about 1936 at Albion Terrace, Hebden Bridge.
Brass Band in Grounds of Cragg Hall, 1935 - ALC05000
Cragg Vale and Mytholmroyd Public Subscription Band - First appearance in uniform September 1935.
Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge - HLS05071
Date unknown but prior to the widening of New Road in 1931 when the end shop, Z Spencer & Sons Florists, was demolished and the second shop was reconstructed at then road end, now Holts Green Grocers.
Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge. - ALC03493
The building was partly demolished when New Road was widened in 1931 and the remaining part re-built and is now Holt's Greengrocers.
Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge - HBC00536
Looking towards Bankfoot in the 1930s, Bankfoot Mill is right of centre.
Burnley Road, Luddendenfoot. - WAO00247
Looking along Burnley Road in the Halifax direction. The Halifax Corporation trams were withdrawn in the mid-1930s and all the buildings seen here on the left were demolished probably late 1970s.
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.
Calder Holmes Footbridge, Hebden Bridge, 1962 - HBC00592
The bridge over the Rochdale Canal links the Memorial Gardens to Calder Holmes Park. Situated behind the Picture House, it was constructed preparatory to the opening of the gardens in 1938.
Calder Holmes Footbridge, Hebden Bridge, 1962 - HBC00593
The bridge over the Rochdale Canal links the Memorial Gardens to Calder Holmes Park. Situated behind the Picture House, it was constructed preparatory to the opening of the gardens in 1938.