The first General Baptist's meetings were held in a house on Wadsworth Lane but requiring bigger premises the congregation built the first Birchcliffe Chapel in 1764 on Sandy Gate.
This was re-built and enlarged in 1825 and then replaced in 1898 by…
Date unknown but probably pre-First World War. In the centre is St James Parish Church, below it is Mytholm Hall, and above them the two Eaves Mills which were demolished after the First World War. Bottom right Stubbing Holme Dyeworks, above it…
Pallis House or Pallisser House c.1900. Originally the house of the palliser who had been responsible for the fencing, palisade/palings, around Erringden deer park.
This can be accurately dated as to the right of Stubbings School, left centre, can be seen work on the construction of Zion Baptist Chapel which opened in 1882. Below it are the buildings on both sides of Commercial Street which were demolished in…
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (Unclas), Reconstruction works at Chiserley. Looking North at Methodist Church. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Although individual workers were rarely in a position to buy their own cottages, friendly societies and…
This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom left to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
The chapel was built in 1777. Seen here in use as the premises of the Hebden Bridge Times. This photo therefore predates its move to a new location in Crown Street in1979.
The following text is taken from Looking Back at Hebden Bridge by Frank…
The low white building in the foreground is Palace House, after which the road is named. The large building in the foreground on the left is the Roman Catholic Church which was built 1896 and closed in 1991.
From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900. This picture shows a very new looking Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, it opened in 1898. PH86.
View from Moss Lane probably early 1890s. On the hillside on the left the Stubbings estate built during the 1880s and climbing up the hill Cliffe Street and above that Blenheim Street. Nutclough Mill has extensions to left and right.
This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
General view down the valley with left centre the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…