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On the left the Co-op Department Store (now Carlton Buildings) and clock.

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The tree bridges, St Georges Bridge, Old Bridge and West End Bridge. The buildings on the right of the river bank this side of the bridge have all been replaced with a purpose built office and shop block. On the hillside to the left of the chimney is…

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Looking across from Union Street on the Birchcliffe Hillside to terraces off Palace House Road along with the abattoir. In the centre Croft Mill and chimney.

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A famous photo of the station area about 1900. Bottom right the Municipal Gas Works at Crow Nest, above it Mayroyd Mill and then the five storey Victoria Mill with the small station dwarfed by it and the large station warehouse on the other side.…

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This cobbled path, known locally as the Snicket, was part of the Heptonstall – Halifax packhorse route and originally dropped sharply straight down, passing the front of the White Lion to the Old Bridge and on to the Buttress. Houses on the left are…

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Taken from the church yard of the former St John's church above the Keighley Road, with the Council Offices in the centre and on the left the Shoulder of Mutton on Bridge Gate.

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Postcard with August 1915 postmark. Along the bottom are the terraced houses on Calder Bank, now long demolished, and to their left the small two storey Hebble End Dyeworks later enlarged and now (2015) apartments

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Undated postcard. Taken from Daisy Bank looking across to Midgley Moor.

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Postcard with 1938 postmark. Still a busy small mill town! Scarbottom Mill with its mill dam is to the right of centre, with Thornber's poultry sheds to the left. On the skyline towards the left is Midgley Methodist Chapel.

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Undated postcard but Calder High School, top centre, is under construction and although work on the school started before the war, it did not open until 1950, it was the West Riding's first comprehensive school. Redman's Scarbottom Mill, with its…

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Between the wars postcard. Diagonally to the left of St Michael's Church is the rear of the railway station with the overhanging timber buildings on the 'up' platform supported on stilts.

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Looking up Hebden Dale probably early to mid 1960s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Palace House is in there foreground and the other side of what is now Calder Holmes Park Hope Baptist Church stands proud. On the left the road to Heptonstall winds up the hill past Crosslanes Chapel.

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In the top left hand corner is the road to Heptonstall, with Cross Lanes Chapel close by. The white house in the foreground is Palace House after which Palace House Road is named. The large building to the right of centre is Hope Baptist Church.

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ALC00431. Date unknown but the land in the foreground not yet levelled for the construction of the railway siding in 1919. Centre right

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Rear of Holme House in the foreground and above it the now demolished mill on Bridge Gate; centre right the Hole-in-the-Wall hotel. Date unknown but prior to the demolition in 1931 of the building on Bridge Gate at its junction with New Road.

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LYRS2797a. Looking east over the station and the town. The goods yard is now the station car park and most of the station buildings have now gone. The Stansfield or Todmorden Curve can just be seen on the far left going off beyond the signal box.

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LYRS 2786 - Sowerby Bridge - general view of the town looking east across the station & coal yard and drops.

This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with…

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LYRS 2783n - Sowerby Bridge - panorama of town with the station in the foreground. This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with canopies and a large imposing…
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