Information from Cathy Ray: the lady in the photo is Miss Best who lived in Mytholmroyd. She attended Hebden Bridge Methodist Church and may have been a nurse.
Cathy’s dad, David Holland, also attended Hebden Bridge Methodist Church where he was…
Daughter of Clara and George Crabtree, who lived at Birchencliffe and owned a corduroy factory. She married Rev. Brian Holt who was minister at Hebden Bridge Methodist Church for some time. They went to live in Canada.
Florence, 1921 - 2016, was the daughter of William Ewart and Florence Lavinia Redman, nee Buck, who lived on Commercial Street, Hebden Bridge. She was aunt to Ruth Lumb.
Clara was an excellent accompanist for all singers, and her husband Stanley was pianist for the over 60s Choir. Mother to Ruth, Richard and John Marshall.
Now lives in Norfolk. Married to Prof: Philip Jones. Daughter of Sheila and Stanley Shackleton and sister to Peter. Ruth was head girl at Calder High School 1969-70
Went to Calder High School between January 1957 and July 1961. Mother of Linda, Louise and Richard, daughter of Ted Cook, Aunt of Christine Levi nee Leeder.
Marjorie Cliffe (nee Hunt) was about nine years old when she was the May Queen at the Catholic Church on Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. Marjorie remembers going to Alice longstaff’s studio for this photo to be taken. She went to the Central School & then…
Kathleen (nee Berridge) and Bill Whipp, taken in about 1940. They lived with her mother in Cliffe Street and had a daughter called Geraldine. Both of them worked for Newton Greenwood in Croft Yard.