The sweet shop at bottom of town, Heptonstall opposite what was the Co-op. In 1960 it was Ballard's paper shop. Arthur Ballard used this photo to re-instate the round window when he opened as a shop (S. Ballard)
Photo taken at the north end of Church Street, Heptonstall, in 1921 by Rev J.V. Haswell who was vicar at Heptonstall Church in the 1920s. He was an amateur photographer who won numerous photographic competitions in Halifax, Bradford, Manchester…
Looking up Bridge Lanes towards its junction with Heptonstall Road. The large building on the left was Breck Mill, a corn mill, now demolished. On the right the buildings beyond the high gabled building were all demolished in 1964 and the area…
The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, it closed 1960, and on the Monday afternoon of 26th November, 1962, demolition workers were sending the walls of the White Horse Hotel crashing to the ground. A few hours later, across the street…
It was decided to open a subscription list for a new church following extensive storm damage to the old church in 1847. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on 15th May, 1850; the completed church being consecrated on 26th October, 1854,…
The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, although Barry Ledgard tells us that a licensee of the White Horse Inn, William Jackson, was charged with running a stage carriage without a licence, every Market day, to Halifax, and was caught…