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Hebden Bridge from Horsehold Road c.1885. - HLS05028
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…
Hebden bridge - Palace House c.1880. - HLS05031
Nothing to do with a 'palace' but a derivation from Pallis House i.e. the house of the 'palliser,' the person responsible in the middle ages for maintaining the fence around Erringden Deer Park. The house is now demolished.
Hebden Bridge from the Heptonstall Hillside. 1881. - HLS05032
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.
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Hebden Bridge from the Heptonstall Hillside. 1881 - HLS05033
General view down the valley with left centre the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
Hebden Bridge from Weasel Hall - HLS05034
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.…
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - HLS05035
Date unknown but seemingly prior to the building of the Council offices in 1897/8 but after the enlargement of the impressive Co-op building with its clock tower in 1889, seen here behind Hope Baptist Chapel.
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield about 1885 - HLS05038
General view up Hebden Dale. Top left Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel, opened 1840, and centre right dominating the vista is Foster Mill and in the far right is Crossley mill.
Hebden Bridge - Hangingroyd Area from above Royd Terrace. - HLS05039
Terraced housing in the Hangingroyd area with above, top right, Nutclough Mill showing the extensions on 2 sides, and to its right Keighley Road climbing up but prior to the construction of its retaining wall. The two chimneys in the centre are R B…
Hebden Bridge - Stubbing Holme and King Street from Eaves Wood - HLS05040
An unusual view looking up the Calder Valley towards Calderside Mill with its tall chimney and the railway crossing Whiteley Arches. The road to the right is Burnley Road into King Street. To the left between the Calder and the Rochdale Canal are the…
Hebden Bridge - Looking North from Palace House Road - HLS05041
HLS05041. View across the town and up Hebden Dale. Right foreground the old abattoir and top left the tower of Heptonstall Church.
Hebden Bridge - Hope Baptist Chapel About 1860 - HLS05061
Hope Baptist Chapel was built at a cost of
Hebden Bridge - Old Gate and the Old Bridge - HLS05065
Old Gate was constructed probably in the 1760s as part of the Halifax - Todmorden Turnpike which entered the town on Commercial Street to the front of the White Lion then left to continue over the Old Bridge and then left again. It ceased to be part…
Hebden Bridge - Mytholm about 1845 from an old print. - HLS05080
Engraving by J Shore c.1855. Looking up from Stubbing Holme where the Colden Water joins the River Calder, the 'mytholm'. Above is Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and above that Eaves Lower and Upper Mills and to the right Bankfoot Mill, now the…
Hebden Bridge
HLS05081. Right of centre is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder. Above it Adelaide Street and above that Bankfoot Mill. In the centre Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and Eaves Mills. The Hall and all the…
Hebden Bridge - View up the Calder Valley from Eaves Wood.. - HLS05095
A snow covered view up the Calder Valley over Adelaide Street, Stubbing Holme and dye works and along King Street to Calderside Mill with the railway over Whiteley Arches next to it and onto Charlestown. Far right the terraced houses of Saville…
Hebden Bridge - Rochdale Canal and Man With Donkey. - HLS05109
Man with a donkey on the tow path where it inclines up to the bridge at the top of Holme Street. The river is below the wall which today is replaced by railings around the children's playground. The tow path has now been re-aligned at this point.…
Heptonstall - Line of Cans on Smithwell Lane. - HLS05137
HLS05137. Heptonstall people relied on four pumps for their water supply. The pumps were locked on a Saturday night until Monday and residents put their cans or buckets out ready to fill when the water came back on.
Heptonstall - Towngate c.1895. - HLS05138
Looking up towards the Cross Inn. Taken from a lantern slide.
Heptonstall - Church Street Repairs. - HLS05139
Date unknown but probably late 1890s.
Heptonstall - Plaque on Northgate. - HLS05141
The plaque bearing the date 1736 is on a building which used to be part of the Cross Inn. The initials are for Henry and Elizabeth Foster, who had the house built.
Heptonstall - Old Archway to Whitehall Farm, Northgate. - HLS05142
The old archway is dated 1578.
Heptonstall - Smithwell Lane. - HLS05146
HLS05146. Wesleyan Sunday School Procession, carrying their banner down Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, which is bedecked with flags. Note the little girls in pinafore dresses, ladies in boaters, and men in cloth caps. Date unknown.
Heptonstall - Smithwell Lane. - HLS05146
Wesleyan Sunday School Procession, carrying their banner down Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, which is bedecked with flags. Note the little girls in pinafore dresses, ladies in boaters, and men in cloth caps. Date unknown.
Heptonstall - Archway Entrance to Churchyard Bottom. - HLS05149
HLS05149. Entrance from off Smithwell Lane.
Heptonstall New Church. - HLS05154
The old medieval church was badly damaged by a gale in 1847 but rather than repairing it a decision was taken to build a new church in the same churchyard. Dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle this was completed in 1854 at a cost of