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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.
New Road, Hebden Bridge c1948 - ALC00491
The bus destination board shows the intermediate points on the route from Leeds: Dudley Hill, Halifax, Hebden Bridge.
Floods at Mytholmroyd - ALC00470
East Parade, Mytholmroyd. 1940s. The man on the right is Wilfred Dempsey
Mytholmroyd - 1946 Floods. - ALC00433
Junction of Caldene Avenue and Burnley Road.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00384
Hope Street. The building with the gabled porch was for many years the Police Station.
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 - 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 - ALC00381
Market Street looking towards Bridge Lanes and the chimney of Calder Mill.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00380
New Road and the Picture House.
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'.
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…
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, Colden School, 1945 - ALC00184
Queen is Ruby Rawsthorne; train bearers: Keith Stansfield, Sheila Yomans; cushion bearer:Kenneth Collinge; young attendant is Ann Ann Marklew.
Dangerous Corner' - ALC00168
Dangerous Corner' a Little Theatre Production in 1941
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. …
Ormerod's , Hebden Bridge. - ALC00113
The workforce in 1941. Ormerod's Valley Ironworks closed in 1968.
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…
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
Kathleen Coneron - ALC04231
Kathleen was born c1940
Margaret Sutcliffe nee Lord- ALC03700
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,…
Mary Matthews nee Croad - ALC00695
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.
Ladies Tennis Team 1947 - ALC00915
Standing 2nd from left is Kathleen Thomas.
Girl's Hockey Team, 1949-50 - ALC00914
Standing L to R: Lillian Southwell, Barbara Jones, Margaret Robertshaw , Sheila Scott, Joyce Bricknell, Wendy Casson, nee Marshall, Beryl Stocks. Middle row, L to R: Eileen Mortimer, Constance Jackson, Sheila ? , Jean Walmsley, Eileen Sayer. Front…
Bowls - Savile 'A' Rose bowl team 1948 - ALC00913
Seated in the centre behind the rose bowl is Fred Southwell. In the 1890s Fred lived at Hebble End with his parents and siblings. He moved to Garnet Street then later to Eaves and ended up on Erringden Road at Mytholmroyd.