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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…

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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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Looking over the rooftops of Hebden Bridge towards Stubbings School and the Birchcliffe hillside. The chimney of Bridge Mill can be seen on the left.

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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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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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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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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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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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