Crossley Westerman was born in Hebden Bridge in 1861, the youngest of the three children of Henry and Sarah Westerman. Crossley’s father died in 1873 and his mother was left to bring up the family on her own. She opened a toyshop at West End, Hebden…
Relaying sets at West End near the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Note the last building on Bridge Gate, this was later pulled down to enable widening of the main road.
West End looking towards New Road. Date unknown but the car has a post-1921 Leeds registration number. From the far end the shops are: first three Blackburn Ironmongers; Haighs Music Shop; Westerman's Photographic Studio; Cockcrofts and Watsons. On…
Date unknown but before the building in the centre at the junction of Bridge Gate and New Road was demolished in the 1930s for road widening. Blackburn's Ironmongers is on the end of the row of shops, and the window of Alice Longstaff's shop,…
To the left of Nicky's Cafe in the centre is the narrow entrance to Old Gate. The cafe was demolished mid-1960s to open up the junction. To the right of the cafe is a large clothing shop on Bridge Gate now the site of the car park. The road sign is…
Nicky's Cafe on the junction of Old Gate and Market Street, demolished mid-1960s to open up the junction. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The arch was erected as part of the celebrations marking the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911. On this side it was lit by gas and on the other side by electricity.
Traffic lights now replace the policeman at this junction of New Road, Bridge Gate, Holme Street and West End. The building of the corner on the left was for many years Blackburn's Ironmongers. The house next to the pharmacy is Westbourne House and…
Probably early 1920s. The photo was taken at the junction of Bridge Gate, Holme Street and New Road. Many years later these premises became the Tourist Information Centre.
Horse and cart crossing West End Bridge in to Market Street. Jackson Merchant Tailor's at the junction with Old Gate looking down Market Street. Building now demolished.
Relaying the setts at West End. Westbourne House is on the left with the end of Bridge Gate beyond, before the end property was removed to widen the road. Crossley Westerman's, later Alice Longstaff's studio was on the right
This building housed Alice’s photographic studio and darkroom at the back of her shop at 25 West End, Hebden Bridge. It was one of the first studios in the West Riding to be lit by electric light as well as the daylight provided by the windows in the…
The tourist Information Centre occupied this building at West end, Hebden Bridge from 1986 until it was relocated in 2003. The empty building looked very sad so Hebden Bridge literary and Scientific Society mounted an exhibition in the window,
The tram terminus on New Road, near the junction with Holme Street, left, and Bridge Gate, right looking towards West End. The white sign on the right-hand building points to C Westerman, Photographer, on West End and the signs on the left-hand…