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Group portrait outside Birchcliffe Chapel - ALC09051
A wonderful picture, possibly of Sunday School scholars and teachers, from the days when chapel life was at the heart of the community.
Blake Dean - ALC09017
Graining Water and Alcomden Water meet to become Hebden Beck, or Hebden Water, shown here. The Widdop Road is on the left of the picture and the building in the bend of the road is Blake Dean Chapel. Probably taken around 1900 before the…
Dusty Miller. Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd - ALC08277
The buildings on the right were demolished in 2017/8 as part of the Flood Prevention Scheme in Mytholmroyd, following the floods of Boxing Day 2015. The tram service along the Calder Valley was ended in 1936 so this picture pre-dates that.
Towngate, Heptonstall - ALC08261
The building on the right was the Heptonstall Co-operative Industrial Society - built on the site of 7 former cottages on Church Street. The Co-op was established in 1860, in rented premises and moved into a new shop in 1866. Note the glass structure…
Top o'th Town, Heptonstall, c1900 - ALC06327
The shop on the right was both a grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The Chalet, Hardcastle Crags c1900 - ALC06320
One of the many tea rooms in Hardcastle Crags.
Hardcastle Crags, c1900 - ALC06319
Sunday afternoon in Hardcastle Crags
A young Alice Longstaff in a school play - ALC06252
Possibly Aladdin judging by the wonderful costumes. The actors are: Alice Speak (Longstaff), Clement Rawsthorn, Alice Horsfall (later mother of Bernard Ingham), Willie Rawsthorn, either Phyllis (sister of Clement and Willie) or Alice Rawsthorn, Lily…
View over Mytholm, c1900 - ALC05184
The house in the lower centre of the photo was a Lock Keeper's House on the Rochdale Canal. To the right-hand side of the Photo is Mytholm Hall with behind it the Parish Church of Hebden Bridge - St. James the Great, and behind that the two Eaves…
Central Board School, Hebden Bridge, 1900 - ALC05181
Central Board School was the second Board School in Hebden Bridge. (Stubbings, 1878 was the first), and was opened in July 1884 as the Todmorden United District Hebden Bridge Central Board School. Originally it was a one—storey building and the…
Westerman's Studio, West End, Hebden Bridge - ALC05173
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…
Building Caldene Bridge, Mytholmroyd - ALC05077
Construction of the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…
Caldene Bridge, Mytholmroyd - ALC05076
The newly constructed the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…
Heptonstall Wesleyan Chapel - ALC04787
The foundation stone of this Chapel was laid by John Wesley, and erected in 1764. The shape is octagonal. In the building of this chapel there appears to have been almost an element of romance; women as well as men, coming even from a distance and…
Wesleyan Chapel, Heptonstall - ALC04786
The foundation stone of this Chapel was laid by John Wesley, and erected in 1764. The shape is octagonal. In the building of this chapel there appears to have been almost an element of romance; women as well as men, coming even from a distance and…
The Old Bridge, Hebden Bridge, c1900 - ALC04603
Old Bridge with the 'New' Hole in the Wall Hotel on the right.
The bridge was built about 1510 to replace a wooden bridge. It carries inscriptions recording repairs in 1602 and 1657 when it was described as being "In Great Ruin and Decay".
The…
The bridge was built about 1510 to replace a wooden bridge. It carries inscriptions recording repairs in 1602 and 1657 when it was described as being "In Great Ruin and Decay".
The…
Mayroyd Hall, Hebden Bridge c1900 - ALC04588
The Hall is situated just above the A646 opposite the station and the former Mayroyd Mill.
Cragg Hall 1900 - ALC04575
Driveway entrance to Cragg Hall
View over Hebden Bridge Station - ALC04554
Postcard addressed to Miss Eliza Stott, postmarked October 15 1908, with the message 'Many happy returns of your birthday, with love'.
F & H Sutcliffe Mill and offices is centre right of picture, with the awning to the railway platform to the…
F & H Sutcliffe Mill and offices is centre right of picture, with the awning to the railway platform to the…
Dawson City, Heptonstall - ALC04464
Workers in Dawson City, which was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The ‘City’ housed many hundreds of men along with their wives and children. It was built in 1900 near Draper Corner, below Heptonstall Slack, as a settlement and depot for…