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Title: Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge - HLS00413
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Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge - HLS00413
Description
The ginnel and steps up into Buttress Brink, a warren of dwellings on different levels at the bottom of the Buttress, off Old Gate opposite the Hole-in-the-Wall Inn. Occupants had to walk through a gloomy ground floor tunnel lit by gas lamps, climb steps set into an almost vertical hillside, then cross bridges spanning the gaps between hillside and property. Needless to say the homes within boasted no modern amenities such as bathrooms and toilets; the kitchens, small and cramped, had only a single cold water tap over a stone sink".
Buttress Brink was demolished in 1967 as “unfit for human habitation”.
(Based on an article in Milltown Memories No.1)
Buttress Brink was demolished in 1967 as “unfit for human habitation”.
(Based on an article in Milltown Memories No.1)
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PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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HLS00413.tif
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Citation
“Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge - HLS00413,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/6285.
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