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Title: Entrance to Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge in the mid-1950s - HLS05045
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Title
Entrance to Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge in the mid-1950s - HLS05045
Description
The ginnel and steps up into Buttress Brink, a warren of dwellings on different levels at the bottom of the Buttress opposite the Hole-in-the-Wall Inn.
They were demolished in 1967 as unfit for human habitation "where occupants had to walk through a gloomy ground floor tunnel still lit by gas lamps, climb steep 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". (Milltown Memories magazine Isse No.1)
They were demolished in 1967 as unfit for human habitation "where occupants had to walk through a gloomy ground floor tunnel still lit by gas lamps, climb steep 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". (Milltown Memories magazine Isse No.1)
Date
2013-02-05T15:07:04
Rights
PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HLS05045.tif
Collection
Citation
“Entrance to Buttress Brink, Hebden Bridge in the mid-1950s - HLS05045,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/6800.
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