Due to the increase in the weight of traffic many bridges had to be strengthened around this time. Hebden Bridge Council Offices are in the background.
Standing, L - R: Richard Hinchliffe, Wm. Robertshaw, E. Harwood, E.T. Atkin, Dr J.H. Thompson, Jas Simpson, Wm. Postlethwaite, S. Sutcliffe, S. Shaw, J. Farrar, Jno H. Helliwell, R. Campbell. Seated: H.H. Cunliffe, David smith, John Sykes, C.W.…
opening of the Council Offices, June 27th 1897. Standing, L - R: Richard Hinchliffe, John Sykes, H.H. Cunliffe, Ethelbert Harwood, James Simpson, David Smith, Jno. Helliwell, D. Greenwood, Richard Campbell. Seated: Wm. Robertshaw, Clarence W.…
View down the Hebden Water passed the Council Offices, built 1897, St Georges Bridge, 1893, Old Bridge 1510, West End Bridge 1771. The open land bottom right is now Valley Road and Market Place.
View of the old packhorse bridge from St George's Bridge looking towards Horsehold. The Council Offices and the Hole in the Wall are on the right. Weasel Hall is on the Horsehold hillside, centre picture.
Taken from the Old Bridge. The side of the Council Offices is on the left and the chimney of Bridge Mill centre. Directly upstream can be seen Nutclough Mill.
The white painted pub is the Shoulder of Mutton, behind which is the decorative end of the Council Offices. The chimney is on Bridge Mill, and behind the shop with the blind, for many years Bonsall's hardware sop, is Linden Mill..
ALC00358. St Georges Bridge across the Hebden Water was erected in 1893. The houses to the left on Blackwater Street were demolished about 1896 to make way for the new Council's Offices. On the right the rear of the Shoulder of Mutton and beyond is…
ALC00359. St Georges Bridge was built in 1893 and here in about 1896 the partially constructed Council Offices are on the left. The rear of the Shoulder of Mutton on the right with Bridge Mill beyond.
Looking at the bottom of the Buttress. Date unknown but the building on the right was part of Buttress Brink and demolished 1960s. Across on the hillside is Zion Baptist Chapel ,built 1881, and below that the buildings on Commercial Street and Garden…
Date unknown but probably late 1940s/early 1950s as the first steel pre-fabricated houses at Dodnaze on Wadsworth Lane can be seen. Central Street and Riverside Schools feature prominently
Looking down Hebden Water to the three bridges in the centre of the town. The chimney of Bridge Mill is on the left and the Council Offices, incorporating the Fire Station, is on the right