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.
Photo taken from near Weasel Hall, the building with the arches, upper centre of the picture, is Stubbings Infant School, and below it the building with the clock tower is Carlton Building, which was formerly part of Hebden Bridge Co-operative…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.