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Jack Hartley - ALC04020
Jack married Margaret Horner in Hebden Bridge in November 1947. Approximately ten years later they and their two children emigrated to Australia.
Peter Shepherd - ALC04008
Born 1943/1944. Lived at Banksfield, Mytholmroyd. Went to Calder Hight School, was in Class 1A 1955/56, possibly at same time as Stuart Greenwood who later became a Councillor. Joined the Royal Navy.
Peter Shepherd - ALC04007
Born 1943/1944. Lived at Banksfield, Mytholmroyd. Went to Calder Hight School, was in Class 1A 1955/56, possibly at same time as Stuart Greenwood who later became a Councillor. Joined the Royal Navy.
Servicemen - ALC02107
June 10th 1944
The wedding of Annie Greenwood and Raymond Sunderland - ALC01951
Raymond G Sunderland started learning the organ at the age of 12 and until he was 16 he studied with his father, the organist of Broadstone Baptist Church, Colden.
During the Second World War he served in the Royal Armoured Corps and in 1944-45,…
During the Second World War he served in the Royal Armoured Corps and in 1944-45,…
Wedding Portrait - ALC01922
The man on the right hand side is Derek Wilcock of Mytholmroyd. The bridesmaid on the left is Mary Sayer, Mytholmroyd Groom Ben Leather, bride Rene (Irene) Sunderland, brides father Sam Sunderland (former Mytholmroyd postman) bridesmaid Mavis…
Wedding Portrait - ALC01920
L - R: Phyllis Brown, Harold Brown, Herbert Dan, his wife. Father-in-law George McLean
Wedding Portrait - ALC01919
The Walmsley Family. (Some of the family subsequently lived in Mytholmroyd).
Irvine & Hilda Ackroyd - ALC01884
Irvine and Hilda, nee Greenwood, were married at St James Parish Church, Hebden Bridge, on 31st August 1940. They lived on High Street, Croft Place, Hebden Bridge, until moving down to Nest Estate, Mytholmroyd when High Street was demolished. They…
Mr & Mrs Blaylock - ALC01874
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.
Wedding Portrait - ALC01871
The wedding of William Blaylock and Edith Mason, November 1940. The service took place at Heptonstall Methodist chapel
Nellie and Frank Thwaites - ALC01835
Nellie (née Mitchell) sister of Doris, Annie, Emily and Alice of the New Delight Inn, Colden, married Frank at Heptonstall Church in 1942.
Wedding of Mr Percy Dodson - ALC01770
The bridegroom is Mr Percy Dobson and he was a very good clarinet player, both in a dance band and as principal clarinettist in The Todmorden Orchestra. He was also a very good soloist.
Frank and Nellie Thwaites - ALC01735
Nellie (née Mitchell) sister of Doris, Annie, Emily and Alice of the New Delight Inn, Colden. She and Frank were married at Heptonstall Church in 1942.
Wedding Party - ALC01699
31st March 1945
Thelma and Harley - ALC01660
6th October 1945
Sunday School Queen, Slack Top, C1940 - ALC01432
formerly AT012
185th Anniversary of Heptonstall Octagonal Chapel in 1949. - ALC01413
The Octagonal Chapel at Heptonstall was built in 1764. The design and construction were overseen by John Wesley.
Pictured at the back of the Chapel with the Sunday School on the right, Mrs Fay Fielden, then Fay Smith is the little girl seated at…
Pictured at the back of the Chapel with the Sunday School on the right, Mrs Fay Fielden, then Fay Smith is the little girl seated at…
Stanley Clarke - ALC01217
He was a member of Brearley Baptist Chapel in the 1950s. As he is wearing his ARP (Air Raid Precautions) badge he was possibly an Air Raid Warden during WW2. The ARP disbanded in 1946 and was reconstituted as part of the Civil Defence Corps in 1948.
Male Portrait - ALC01194
February 28th 1945
The Prime Minister Visits - ALC01118
Photo taken at the junction of New Road and Commercial Street. Believed to be a visit by Winston Churchill to Hebden Bridge, probably in the early 1940s.
Jack Bridge Mill, in the Colden Valley - ALC00787
Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Couple, man in uniform - ALC00661
Jim Munro and Phyllis Sutcliffe
Couple, man in uniform - ALC00643
Kathleen (nee Berridge) and Bill Whipp, taken in about 1940. They lived with her mother in Cliffe Street and had a daughter called Geraldine. Both of them worked for Newton Greenwood in Croft Yard.
