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To its left Bridge Mill and chimney and left of that the Shoulder of Mutton.

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Just visible on the far right are houses on Heptonstall Road and above them Badger Lane climbing up to Blackshawhead Almost dead centre of the photo is the landmark chimney of Calder Mill.

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Much of the views in this image are largely unchanged today, although Commercial Street and Bull Green have lost the buildings on the left. These were replaced in the 1930s with a more contemporary architectural style. The view to the station is…

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View of Mythomroyd showing Scarbottom Mill. Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book "A Village Childhood" c1937. Also a good view of the railway parcels shed and sorting sidings to the right of the station, both dismantled following…

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LYRS2797a. Looking east over the station and the town. The goods yard is now the station car park and most of the station buildings have now gone. The Stansfield or Todmorden Curve can just be seen on the far left going off beyond the signal box.

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Various views around the town, with Wainhouse Tower taking centre stage. Legend has it that it was built so the owner could overlook his neighbour.

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Postcard with April 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.

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Undated postcard but the image is prior to the construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908. Prominent left of centre is the Primitive Methodist Zion Chapel.

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Undated postcard. Taken from Daisy Bank looking across to Midgley Moor.

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The sorting sidings c.1950. Constructed in 1919 they were used to divide coal trains from the Yorkshire coalfields between those for the Manchester direction and those for the Burnley and north west. They operated 24 hours a day until closure in…

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Looking down on the town and station from the south hillside. This shows how the station platforms are above the valley floor built on an embankment. The single box and buildings on the 'up' Manchester platform are supported on stilts. All now…

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Many of the notable buildings in the town on one card. The orphanage, which opened in 1864 and later became Crossley Porter School and then Crossley Heath School.

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Holmes Park and Recreation Ground on the left.

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Undated postcard.

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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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Bottom right Salem Milll, now the site of the Co-op, and to its left the rear of Salem Chapel and in the lefthand corner is Breck Mill, a flour mill, and above that terrace housing on High Street behind Bridge Lanes; all long demolished. Queens…

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c.1990. Looking over the town of Hebden Bridge. The Marina is in the foreground with to its left the Picture House and Hope Chapel.

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Top centre Stubbings School then dropping down to the White Lion Yard and Shepherd's Garage.

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Town view from beside Zion Chapel on Osborne Street with in the foreground buildings on Union Street and below that houses on both sides of Commercial Street, demolished mid-1960s. On the left near the top is Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road

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The storey flats on the left have been replaced with private housing. Snow still in the wall bottoms on Wadsworth Moor.
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