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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…

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The chapel had opened in 1825 but was replaced by the larger chapel lower down Birchcliffe Road in 1898, now the Birchcliffe Centre.

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Birchcliffe Tennis Club

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Hebden Bridge looking over to the Birchcliffe hillside. Lower centre are the huge retaining walls supporting Keighley Road and Birchcliffe Road which were cut into the hillside early 19th century when the turnpike from Hebden Bridge to Lees was…

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Nutclough Mill is in the centre of the picture, above its chimney is Sandy Gate, with the fields of Old town behind. Birchcliffe Chapel centre right. Source: Barbara Shepherd. Ref: At568BAS.

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The Birchcliffe hillside of Hebden Bridge is on the left.

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The buildings at the bottom of Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street during demolition in 1952.

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Hollins Cottage at the junction of Birchcliffe Road and Commercial Street during demolition in 1952.

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The buildings in the foreground are Regent Street / Sackville Street / Cleveland Place / Oak Street as they were initially developed. The deeds to 2 Regent Street and 6 Sackville Street indicate the properties were built in the1890's. The houses 2…

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Looking into the yard at the back of the White Lion Hotel. They even had their own petrol pump. Behind the big house at the bottom of Birchcliffe Road can be seen the parish church of St John with Stubbing School to the right of it.

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Taken in the winter of 2016, using a Nikon D800 and a 135mm AIS prime Nikon Lens.

This view had previously been obscured by the trees in the foreground which had recently been removed.

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View across the town late 19th or early 20th century prior to the building of Riverside School in 1908. Bottom right is Central School following enlargement in 1895. Looking up the river beyond the second bridge the Council Offices built in 1897/8.…

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Looking over the rooftops of Hebden Bridge towards Stubbings School and the Birchcliffe hillside. The chimney of Bridge Mill can be seen on the left.

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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.

Centre right…

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On the hillside on the left the Old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel and Sunday School. On the far side Birchcliffe Road climbing up with Cliffe Street centre right. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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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…

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The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen with the graveyard visible before it was colonised by trees. Being built is the new Birchcliffe Chapel which was completed in 1898. Chapel Avenue is just a building site!

Nutclough Mill is in the centre of…

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Bottom right of centre is Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works with Nutclough Mill before it was extended to the left. Above and top centre is the old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel.

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Undated postcard. Hangingroyd housing can be seen bottom left with Old Town top left. Old Birchcliffe Chapel is towards the top right with the new 1898 Chapel below it. Demolition appears to be taking place at the old Birchcliffe Chapel, the stone…

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Possibly the oldest picture in the Pennine Horizons Archive.

Whit Monday 1856 with 3000 Sunday School scholars and teachers with banners, gathered in The Croft, or more correctly the White Horse Croft. Seen here looking over to the rear of…

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ALC00406. View of the town and its mills c.1895. Behind Hope Baptist Chapel the large Co-Op Bulding and clock tower completed 1889 but looking left from it the Council Offices (1896) not yet built. Just visible lower right are railway wagons in the…

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Market Street looking towards West End in the 19th century. The building at the far end is Jackson Merchant Tailors. The horse drawn vehicle on the left is a two seater carriage but that on the right too indistinct. The shop bottom left is Joe Jagger…
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