To the left of the right hand tree is Nutclough Mill with the Birchcliffe hillside behind, and centre foreground Hangingroyd Mill. Behind the largest chimney can be seen Redman Bros’ Foster Mill with the gantry joining 2 sections of the mill across…
On the left is Croft Mill with its chimney and behind the chimney is Zion Particular Baptist Chapel. Running down the centre of the photo are the 100 Steps from Marlborough Road to Commercial Street. The houses on the right are the rear of Crossley…
This is an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and…
Rear of Oldfield Watson's yard on the left, Crossley Mill Terrace and Machpelah beyond. The buildings on the canal bank up to the old chimney were all demolished in 1984 to make way for the new Marina. The chimney remains by the boiler house itself…
Taken from the Old Bridge looking towards the Birchcliffe hillside with Bridge Gate is in the foreground. The building with the corrugated roof was for many years Albert Fielden's bookies shop whilst on Bridge Gate the building with the shutters at…
Looking across the town from Cross Lanes Chapel Grave Yard at the top of the Buttress. Date unknown but prior to demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street in 1965.
View over the town from the Chapel Graveyard at the top of the Buttress. The Chapel closed in 1958 and was destroyed by fire in the mid-1960s. The debris here could be following demolition.
Looking down on the town with the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on the right, the mill itself was gutted by fire in November 1964. Heptonstall Road climbing the hillside in the centre but below it housing on High Street and on the north side of…
Partly hidden by the tree on the left is the main building of Foster Mill and then partly hidden by the tree on the right is Hangingroyd Mill and above it Nutclough Mill, the only one to remain.
Looking acros an industrial scene to the Birchcliffe hillside. Behind the trees on the left is Foster Mill and below the terraced houses on the hillside is Nutclough Mill and below that Hangingroyd Mill.
Looking up Hebden Water to Nutclough Mill top right. Keighley Road is supported above the river by a huge retaining wall at this point. When constructed as the Lees & Hebden Bridge Turnpike in about 1815 it was built on a shelf cut out of the cliff.
The hotel on the left is the former Nutclough House pub and above it the double-decker Eiffel Buildings on the road which runs down to join Keighley Road where vehicles can be seen.