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Looking over from Heptonstall Hillside. Bottom left Foster Mill, centre Hangingroyd Works, centre right Hebden Works with Nutclough Mill above. With the exception of Nutclough Mill most now demolished. Centre left going off at an angle the so called…

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Birchcliffe hillside taken from Heptonstall Road circa 1970. Eiffel Tower is in the foreground and Birchcliffe Chapel to the right.

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This was the third General Baptist's Chapel on the Birchcliffe Hillside the first opened in 1764 on Sandy Gate although meetings had been held at Higher Needless at the top of Wadsworth Lane some years earlier. In 1833 the chapel was rebuilt to…

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David Fletcher walking up to the door. This was the third General Baptist's Chapel on the Birchcliffe Hillside the first opened in 1764 on Sandy Gate although meetings had been held at Higher Needless at the top of Wadsworth Lane some years earlier.…

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Now the home of Pennine Heritage Limited.

Purchased in 1978 with assistance from the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust (JRSST) to save it from demolition, the building was converted in 1979 to the Pennine Heritage HQ and low cost office space for…

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The 1st Hebden Bridge company (Birchcliffe). Taken at Birchcliffe Chapel.

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More or less in the centre the 'new' Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel in course of construction with the old Chapel above it to the left. Lower centre Nutclough Mill with part of Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works below.

Hebden Bridge's famous…

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David Fletcher giving a talk at the Birchcliffe Centre in the upper floor of the chapel after its first conversion to form a community space. The Birchcliffe Centre received a Heritage Lottery grant to improve the facilities of this upper floor which…

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The rear of the former Manse centre left. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Bridesmaid - Sonia Mitchell? Birchcliffe Chapel

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Anne & Jack Hamer. (nee Wilkinson). Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, Hebden Bridge.

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Clive and Beryl Sunderland (nee Clark). Left to right:- Molly Sunderland (nee McAuliffe), Jean Greatorex (nee Lumb), Clive, Beryl, Christine Stansfield (nee Lord) and Gillian?

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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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pencil notes on back "RGS in 2/1952 BS of plates Marked on base"

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The old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel. Some of the stone was later used to build a Sunday School located behind the 'new' chapel which opened in 1898.
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