Salem Sunday School on Bridge Lanes can be seen not long before its demolition c1962. At the top of the picture Hebble Bridge can be seen with the start of the roads to Fairfield to the left and Horsehold to the right.
Probably taken in the early 1960s. Slack Baptist Chapel is in the triangle of roads, one leading to Widdop and the other to Colden and Blackshaw. The building on the right of the road almost in the centre of the picture is Robertshaw Farm where…
This is on Northgate, just before North Bridge, where the traffic lights are now, across from the end of North Bridge Street. The road that the van and car are heading towards is Cross Hills
The Bull Inn is on the right. The rest of the dwellings on the north side of Bridge Lanes were demolished in the mid-1960 and the site left derelict for many years as can be seen here.
The mill on the left was Barbreck which burnt down in the…
Bridge Lanes going down on the right and Heptonstall Road going up in the centre. Taken in the 1960s, post demolition of High Street houses and houses on Bridge Lanes north side..
Soon after demolition of the High Street and Back High Street houses, c1966. This area stayed derelict for about ten years before it was landscaped. The white building on the left of the picture is the Fox and Goose.
c1966, this was one of Calder Civic Trust's first projects - creating a small garden on a piece of long derelict land in the ownership of British Rail. The relic of this garden remains (2014) in front of the Catholic Church, which has replaced the…
Landscaping by the Civic Trust with David Fletcher on the right. The buildings, including Bridge Gale Mill on the left, long demolished to make way for the St Pol Car Park and riverside walkway.