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Ethel Wadsworth - ALC04238
Daughter of John Henry Wadsworth and Fanny Wadsworth (Nee Park) Brother of Edmond Wadsworth
Married Edward Bond on 26th July 1941
Married Edward Bond on 26th July 1941
Halifax - Panorama of Station & Town - LYR00164
LYRS 2691 - An extract from an 1873 lithograph giving a rare view of the 1855 Station before it was extensively enlarged and modified in the mid-1880s. Access to the Station was by a curving carriage drive which is just discernible here turning down…
Ormerod's , Hebden Bridge. - ALC00113
The workforce in 1941. Ormerod's Valley Ironworks closed in 1968.
Cross Lanes Chapel, Hebden Bridge 1940 - ALC00127
The Cross Lanes Society was formed from two Methodist groups from Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall. They decided to join together and build a new chapel at a half way site. The land cost £289 4s 0d in 1838?. Plans by Mr John Nicholson were accepted. …
Dangerous Corner' - ALC00168
Dangerous Corner' a Little Theatre Production in 1941
May Queen, Colden School, 1945 - ALC00184
Queen is Ruby Rawsthorne; train bearers: Keith Stansfield, Sheila Yomans; cushion bearer:Kenneth Collinge; young attendant is Ann Ann Marklew.
May Queen, Colden School, 1945 - ALC00186
Queen is Ruby Rawsthorne; train bearers: Keith Stansfield, Sheila Yomans; cushion bearer:Kenneth Collinge; young attendant is Ann Ann Marklew.
May Queen - ALC00188
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…
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00379
St Georges Square, left, and Bridge Gate right. The shop was Elton Jowett's tobacconist shop, his house was next door, and the shop on the corner behind the van was the Economic Stores. The wooden hut on Bridge Gate was Ma Jones'.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00380
New Road and the Picture House.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00381
Market Street looking towards Bridge Lanes and the chimney of Calder Mill.
Hebden Bridge 1946 - ALC00382
The great flood of September 20th 1946. Hebden Water and the Old Bridge. Taken from St Georges Bridge, the Council Offices are on the right.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00383
Albert Street looking down to Crossley Mill on New Road, with the Albert Hotel on the right and Croft Mill on the left. The floods of 1946 were generally regarded as the worst of the 20th century. Albert Street, Hebden Bridge, was among the areas…
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00384
Hope Street. The building with the gabled porch was for many years the Police Station.
Mytholmroyd - 1946 Floods. - ALC00433
Junction of Caldene Avenue and Burnley Road.
Floods at Mytholmroyd - ALC00470
East Parade, Mytholmroyd. 1940s. The man on the right is Wilfred Dempsey
New Road, Hebden Bridge c1948 - ALC00491
The bus destination board shows the intermediate points on the route from Leeds: Dudley Hill, Halifax, Hebden Bridge.
Holme House Mill, Booth, c1900 - ALC00512
Holme House Mill, Booth, where water power was in use until 1941. The mill had been owned by the Ogden family since 1769: after it was dismantled it is believed the waterwheel was moved to Shibden Hall, Halifax.
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.
Couple, man in uniform - ALC00661
Jim Munro and Phyllis Sutcliffe
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…
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.
Male Portrait - ALC01194
February 28th 1945