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Calder Valley Landscape - PNH01578
Looking over towards Midgehole Road from Lee wood, Pecket Well on the horizon.
Eat More Fruit and Keep Fit. 1925 - ALC05009
The message of Eat More Fruit and Keep Fit was certainly better than another fad of the 1920s, which advised people to actively smoke instead of eating, as it was though to help some physical problems. Many began using them as an appetite suppressant…
Cross Lee' - Lee Wood Road, Heptonstall - DMC005002
Top of the Buttress. You can see gravestones from the former Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel. The newly built houses are at the top of moss Lanes.
Market Street, Hebden Bridge - AGW00103
Looking east along part of the A646 road from Todmorden to Hebden Bridge which follows the Calder Valley floor. This was once the main commercial street in the town.
Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge circ 1959 - AGW00108
Between Bridge Lanes and Heptonstall Road was a busy community, home to so many, yet passed by thousands each year as they travel up or down this busy road and see only a grassy slope with trees and bushes.
This thriving part of Hebden Bridge…
This thriving part of Hebden Bridge…
Buttress, Hebden Bridge 1966 - AGW00109
Part of an ancient packhorse route from Burnley to Halifax, as it descends into Hebden Bridge from the village of Heptonstall.
Demolition on Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge, 1960s - AGW00112
It remained like this for a decade or more
Hebden Bridge Houses - AGW00128
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…
Flying freehold is an English legal term to describe a freehold which…
St George Sq, Hebden Bridge - AGW00144
Looking towards St Georges Bridge.
