Three John Pickles employees, Tony Summerscales, apprentice foundary pattern maker (on left) Gainger Lee, apprentice centre lathe turner (centre) and Derek Pollard, apprentice fitter, on the right. c1959
Hebden Bridge's three bridges town centre bridges over Hebden Water. St Georges Bridge (1892), Old Bridge (1510), West End Bridge (1771). To the left the chimney of Bridge Mill. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Bridges over Hebden Water in the town centre. In the foreground St Georges Bridge, then Old Bridge and above that West End Bridge . The buildings on the right have been demolished and replaced by a block of offices and shops. Part of the Hebden…
On the left is the Hole in the Wall and next to it the chimney of Hebden Bridge Mill. The building partly visible on the far right has now been demolished. Postcard.
Old Bridge with the 'New' Hole in the Wall Hotel on the right.
The bridge was built about 1510 to replace a wooden bridge. It carries inscriptions recording repairs in 1602 and 1657 when it was described as being "In Great Ruin and Decay".
The…
HEPTON BRIDGE was written about by the late W.B. Crump at p121 in the 1924 HAS Transactions, in Part 111 of “Ancient Highways of the Parish of Halifax.”
Possibly Mr Collins of Heptonstall by the Old Bridge in Hebden Bridge, taken from Old Gate, March 1970. Stubbings School is in the centre of the picture, and St john's Church on the left.
The timber bridge which gave its name to the town probably stood a little further upstream than the present stone structure which dates from about 1510. Legacies financed the construction: for example, James Grenewode of Wadsworth left 3s. 4d to the…
The timber bridge which gave its name to the town probably stood a little further upstream than the present stone structure which dates from about 1510. Legacies financed the construction: for example, James Grenewode of Wadsworth left 3s. 4d to the…