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Town view from beside Zion Chapel on Osborne Street with in the foreground buildings on Union Street and below that houses on both sides of Commercial Street, demolished mid-1960s. On the left near the top is Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road

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Looking down Hebden Water to first St Georges Bridge and then the Old Bridge. On the left the huge retaining wall supporting Keighley Road which at this point is on a ledge cut out of the cliff side. The buildings on the right-hand river bank have…

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More or less centre of the photo is Dodd Naze housing on Wadsworth Lane and centre the landmark chimney of the former Calder Mill.

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Looking down from above Heptonstall Road. Lower right terraced houses off Hangingroyd Lane with housing on Birchcliffe Hillside above. Almost in the centre ia part of Hangingroyd Mill and diagonally above it Hebden Works and Nutclough Mill. Centre…

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Looking down from above Heptonstall Road. Lower right are the terraced houses off Hangingroyd Lane with the housing on Birchcliffe hillside above. Almost in the centre is part of Hangingroyd Mill and diagonally above it Hebden Works and Nutclough…

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This view over the Nutclough, Birchcliffe and Foster Lane areas of Hebden Bridge is part of a photograph held by Allan Moss. Stubbing School was built in 1878, hence the date is given as prior to that.

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Top left - Cross Stone Church. Bottom left - Town Hall, Bottom Right - Unitarian Chapel, Top Right - Stoodley Pike.

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From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900, before many of the buildings that we are now familiar with have been built. Central Street School is prominent towards the bottom of the picture.…

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From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900. The picture shows the new station which was built in 1892. The large mill towards the right is Victoria Mill.

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From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900. St James Church, Mytholm is at the bottom of the picture with Horsehold towards the top. PH86.

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This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…

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Date unknown but seemingly prior to the building of the Council offices in 1897/8 but after the enlargement of the impressive Co-op building with its clock tower in 1889, seen here behind Hope Baptist Chapel.

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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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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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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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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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