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L&YR Eddison Electric Lorry No.24. - JCA00362
Chain driven with a max speed of 8 mph and imported 1910/12.
Oops! - HLS01223
Part of a collection of postcards posted to Mr A Barrett, 147 Halifax Road, Todmorden dated 15.7.1918. written on the rear is: 'This is one of our lorries which prefers being in the ditch instead of keeping to the road. How this happened I cannot…
An ex petrol tanker! - HLS01224
Part of a collection of postcards posted to Mr A Barrett, 147 Halifax Road, Todmorden dated 15.7.1918. written on the rear is: 'A Leyland which had 500gallons of petrol on board, which had the misfortune to be struck by lightning. This is what…
Accident - HLS01225
Part of a collection of postcards posted to Mr A Barrett, 147 Halifax Road, Todmorden dated 15.7.1918.
Accident - HLS01226
Part of a collection of postcards posted to Mr A Barrett, 147 Halifax Road, Todmorden dated 15.7.1918. written on the rear is: 'A rather funny position. Both drivers escaping with only slight scratches.'
Hebden Bridge - Mytholm - ALC00388
Clearing the site for flats at Mytholm Close. The near buildings on the right are opposite the bottom of Heptonstall Road. Just visible to their left is the Fox & Goose and to their right the undemolished north side of Bridge Lanes. Adelaide Street…
New Road, Hebden Bridge c1948 - ALC00491
The bus destination board shows the intermediate points on the route from Leeds: Dudley Hill, Halifax, Hebden Bridge.
Todmorden Fire Brigade, at Mytholmroyd - ALC00600
Taken at Pall Mall, now a car park. Watson's mill on the left, now Russell Dean's furniture shop. Postcard.
Fallingroyd Bridge, near Hebden Bridge - ALC00698
Alice Longstaff is standing on the bridge, the clog factory is in the background.
Halifax Road, Todmorden - ALC05153
Looking towards Hebden Bridge, the Hippodrome is on left
New Road, Hebden Bridge - ALC05857
A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.
Fallingroyd Bridge, Hebden Bridge - ALC08234
The tram tracks can be clearly seen in the photograph of Fallingroyd Bridge which takes the road over the Rochdale Canal. This bridge was an accident blackspot and was demolished to be replaced by a culverted section of the canal, which allowed some…
Man in cab - EIL00163
It looks as though this lorry may have been used as a float in a festival or gala. The driver is sporting a buttonhole.
Gala Queen and her retinue, c1955 - EIL00165
Heptonstall man Nevile Metcalf is driving, he was a driver for the Co-op.
Heptonstall Gala Queen and her retinue - EIL00169
L to R: Eileen Longbottom, Rita Baker, Sheila Sunderland
Heptonstall Gala Float - EIL00170
I wonder who these oriental ladies are?
Aachen Way, Halifax 1980s - CBC06202
This is a view of the then newly constructed 'King Cross Bypass'. The road is named after Aachen, Halifax's German 'twin town'.
Halifax General Hospital - MCH00280
During construction August 1999.
Frostholme Mill, Cornholme - TAS00708
The cottages nearest the mill were demolished to make way for a loading bay.