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ST. GEORGE'S BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge. was built in 1899, the cost being met by public subscription plus a grant from the West Riding County Council. The bridge had a very steep gradient, and before it was altered a chain horse was needed by loaded…

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This is Spa Bridge, Oldham Road, Rishworth where the A672 meets M62 at Windy Hill. The curved front wall of this bridge still exists though Sps Clough is now culveted not bridged.

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SOYLAND MILL BRIDGE is at Dam Side over the Lumb Clough stream. It is a single-arch, undated, stone bridge. The following entries appear in the accounts for 1741 of John Normanton, the Sowerby Constable:¬
Paid Matthew Nickolson for Soyland Miln…

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LYRS 6106 - Sowerby Bridge Station 1963 - frontage and approach looking down Station Road. The station with its imposing Tudor style building replaced an earlier station near Sowerby Tunnel and was built in the late 1870s when the Rishworth Branch…

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LYRS 6095 - 1963. Sowerby Bridge Station Building and Concourse all in an unkept and dilapidated condition. The platform canopies have gone and replaced by the concrete structures we see today. The main building and concourse were hastily demolished…

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LYRS 6096 - 1963. Sowerby Bridge Station Building and Concourse in poor condition. The platform canopies have gone and replaced by the concrete structures we see today. The main building and concourse were hastily demolished following fire damage in…

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SOWERBY BRIDGE was the subject of a paper by H. P. Kendall in the 1915 Transactions.

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Bridge over main road, Sowerby Bridge

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Railway bridge over Holmes Road near Sowerby Bridge Station, note the coal drops on the right.

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Railway Bridge, Holmes Road, Sowerby Bridge. Circa 1960

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A still morning and it looks like a steam train has just gone through.

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Very large mill - Wlson Bros, Bobbin Manufacturers - demolished before erection of flats. Scanned from photograph
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