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Many of the "over and under" houses or "double decker" or “top and bottom” houses in Hebden Bridge are legally referred to as "flying freeholds". Wikipedia describes them as:
Flying freehold is an English legal term to describe a freehold which…

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House and shop on the river bank near the bridge in the centre of the village.

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Building on St Ann’s Square in the centre of the village viewed from across the river.

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Building on the left hand side of the river bridge in the centre of the village.

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Looking towards Sowerby Bridge prior to restoration of the canal and tow path in the 1980s.

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The building on the left is known locally as ‘Parkin’ and on the right is ‘The Bungalow’.

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The rear of buildings on High Street, between Halifax Lane and Stocks Lane. The building left of centre was formerly the Murgatroyd Arms, later Church House and now residential.

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Diamond House (Aldersons Plumbers) with Duke Street going off to the left.

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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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Taken from Heptonstall Road, all the properties on the left hand side of the road were demolished in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

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The houses are shown here shortly before demolition.

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c.1912. In the foreground the large station warehouse which had been extended in 1884 and the sidings. The warehouse was demolished in 1969 following serious fire damage but goods facilities had been withdrawn in 1966.

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c. 1880. In the foreground the railway sidings which were constructed in 1877 and just visible to their right part of the station warehouse before it was extended in 1884. In the centre Crossley Mill and behind it Stubbings School (1878) and housing…

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Mytholmroyd Station around 100 years ago: but the new buildings failed to impress critics. St Michael’s Church, top left, remains but much else has since disappeared including parts of the station and the signal box. The rear of the 'up' Manchester…

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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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