St. James, Parish Church of Hebden Bridge School. Angels from L to R: John Buckley, Joan Crabtree, Kathleen Hey, Beryl Stocks, June Fielding, Lily Bolton, not known, Gillian Uttley, Derek McMahon. Three Kings L to R: Kenneth Hawks, Gordon Smith,…
William Blaylock and Edith Mason were married at Heptonstall Methodist Chapel, 13th November, 1940. This is a studio picture of the couple, a practise that was quite normal in the days.
Marjorie Cliffe (nee Hunt) was about nine years old when she was the May Queen at the Catholic Church on Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. Marjorie remembers going to Alice longstaff’s studio for this photo to be taken. She went to the Central School & then…
Post recruitment. During the war Mary worked as a teleprinter operator for the ATS, moving to France with the Americans SHAEF in 1944. She was amongst the first lot of women to go to Paris after the Germans left.
Margaret had an older sister, Marion; their father was Charles Lord who was a butcher and had a shop just off the square in Hebden Bridge, the family lived above the shop. Margaret married Jack Sutcliffe and they lived first at Underbank Avenue,…