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Birchcliffe Road near the Birchcliffe Chapel, out of the picture on the left.

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There had been an inn on this site since 1851. The White Horse Hotel closed its doors 1960 and was demolished in 1962, the site is now a car park.

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This is the bottom of Birchcliffe Road at its junction with a very narrow Commercial Street which went straight down to the front of the White Lion. The demolition allowed the road junction to be widened and for Commercial Street and Keighley Road to…

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Nutclough Mill has just been extended upwards. The Birchcliffe hillside has yet to be developed, but the old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen near the top of the picture.

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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.

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Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street. The buildings on the left were demolished in 1959.

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The house shown here next to the school is on the site of the former St John's church.

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c1970. The top of the tower like building centre left contained a water tank for the sprinkle system for the Co-op building just out of view on the left.

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Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.

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The bottom of Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street before Commercial Street was re-aligned in 1959 to carry straight on up Keighley Road; the buildings on the left were demolished at that time. The buildings on the right still…

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c.1888. In the centre is Nutclough Mill before the extension to the left, and above 'old' Birchcliffe Chapel. Housing starting to be developed on the hillside; top right Cliffe Royd on Wadsworth Lane and right behind the north side of Blenheim…

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ALC00400. c.1890. In the foreground the Hangingroyd area and behind the steep cliff through which Keighley Road has been cut but not yet supported by the large retaining walls. To the left Hangingroyd Mill; in the centre Nutclough Mill and above it…

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In the centre the almost complete 'new' and much larger Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel with Edward Street below in course of construction The large retaining walls supporting Keighley Road and Birchcliffe Road now in place.

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ALC00407. General town view c.1900. The new Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel (1899) just visible on the righthand hillside above Stubbings School but Riverside School (1908/9) being built on the land above the houses in the foreground. The Council Offices…

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Over the wall from the mini-bus is the White Lion Hotel with Bridge Mill behind it. To the left of the mill the Shoulder of Mutton faces St Georges Square.

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The junction of Keighley Road and Birchcliffe Road. Originally Keighley Road was much closer to Lees Yard, now the site of Hebden bridge’s weekly markets. A house, Hollins Place, which was also a fish and chip shop, was demolished to improve the…

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The houses are known locally as 'Snob Row'. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The opening on the right goes into what today is Birchcliffe Centre car park. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
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