In the centre is Arnold Knight who lived nearby at Callis Bridge. Arnold was laid off in 1934 because of the trade depression caused by the Wall Street crash. Information supplied by his grandson Jonathan Greenwood.
Members of the Cockroft family with some of the workforce at Birks Mill, about 1930. On the front row, wearing suits, from left to right, are Herbert Cockroft, Keith, Leo, John Arthur Cockroft (the firm's founder) and Eric.
Hebden Bridge Grammar School Team 1938-39. Master standing is Bill Herdman. Back row L to R: Russell Crossley; Douglas Greenwood; Russell Crossley; Douglas Jackson; Herbert Smith; John Ingham. Seated L to R; ?; Harry Jagger; Jack Crossley 1; Jack…
1937, Colden gala: From left to right
Ethel Smith(nee Platt) Molly Baskerville, Douglas Crabtree, Shirley Burton, Gala Queen Joyce Greenwood, Joyce Sutcliffe, Dennis Burton, Unknown, Greta Sutcliffe, Joyce Sunderland.
Circa 1930. The first building on the left is on the end of Bridge Gate and was partly demolished when New Road was widened in 1931. The remaining part of the building is now Holt's Greengrocers.
The junction of Crown Street and New Road. Spencer's building on the left was demolished and the gardens also removed when New Road was widened in the 1930s. The opening on the right is now Holt's yard.
Rear of Holme House in the foreground and above it the now demolished mill on Bridge Gate; centre right the Hole-in-the-Wall hotel. Date unknown but prior to the demolition in 1931 of the building on Bridge Gate at its junction with New Road.
Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.
1920s or '30s. By this time carting had been contracted out by the LMS and here to Robertshaw Bros. A mixture of vehicles and registration plates; with the exception of the second from the right which is a Huddersfield number the rest are all…