The aqueduct carrying the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder. On the left Central Dyeworks now enlarged and converted into apartments Above the aqueduct Queens Terrace on Heptonstall Road. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The playground in the foreground is for Riverside School on Holme Street, and immediately beyond that is the junction between the River Calder and Hebden Water, and beyond that is Central Street School.
BREARLEY BRIDGE is a single-arch saddle-back stone bridge thought to date from the mid 18th century. An inn, the Mill Inn, later the Clarence Inn, once stood on the Brearley side of the bridge. There was a bridge there in the seventeenth century as…
Postcard with October 1904 postmark. A busy small industrial village at the time this photo was taken, but all the mills have now gone. On the hillside is Brearley House built in 1841 and not to be confused with the older nearby Brearley Hall. The…
HAWKSCLOUGH BRIDGE, Mytholmroyd, is a single-arch stone bridge over the Calder thought to be at least 200 years old. It was built to serve Hawksclough Manor, now known as Hawksclough Farm. The house was extended in 1735 and the bridge may have been…
Are these people just watching the spectacle or are they stranded waiting for the water to recede? The buildings with roof vents are part of Thornber's hatchery.
This stone wall shows evidence of where the sluice gate was situated that fed water from the River Calder to the old goit that in turn fed water to the reservoir at Grange Mill, Mytholmroyd. It is because of this that the end house of Calder Terrace…
Callis is the name of a place on the slopes of Erringden. It was named as ‘Calys’ as early as 1375. A deed dated 1604 has reference to ‘one small close adjoining the Hebble called Callishebble.’ The district is approached by the bridge over the…
Obviously a time of drought judging by the level of the River Calder. It was originally, a water-powered cotton mill and at the time, the largest mill in Charlestown.
Behind the viaduct is Calderside Mill built in the 1820s by John Whiteley, after whom the viaduct came to be named. Reputedly it had the tallest chimney in the valley.
The bridge over the canal was a very early skew bridge and also one of the very…
COPLEY BRIDGE is a stone bridge of two spans crossing the River Calder. There was a toll bar here until 1856, the bridge and road up into the wood being privately owned. Until a few years ago a board showing the various amounts of toll payable was…