This photo features the newly built (1875) Prospect Terrace, the space to the left of it is where Nazebottom Baptist Church will be built in 1908. The extremely tall chimney was for Calderside Mill. The houses centre right are Thistle Bottom.
A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.
On the left is Hope Baptist Church and on right is the number 15 bus from Leeds to Burnley, its destination indicator shows the principal intermediate points on the route - Dudley Hill, Halifax, Hebden Bridge. The winding handle for the destination…
The first General Baptist's meetings were held in a house on Wadsworth Lane but requiring bigger premises the congregation built the first Birchcliffe Chapel in 1764 on Sandy Gate.
This was re-built and enlarged in 1825 and then replaced in 1898 by…
This is an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and…
Pallis House or Pallisser House c.1900. Originally the house of the palliser who had been responsible for the fencing, palisade/palings, around Erringden deer park.
Looking over to Keighley Road with its large retaining wall and top right St John's Church on the Stubbings hillside. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The original Salem Chapel, built 1885, replaced an earlier chapel built 1824 which only had seating for 750 with a schoolroom underneath. The new chapel had seating 1050. Falling membership after the Second World War meant eventual amalgamation with…
Although at Mytholm on the western edge of Hebden Bridge this is its Parish Church; built in 1833 on land given by the Rev. J.A.Rhodes and his wife of nearby Mytholm Hall.
The Parish Church of Hebden Bridge, was consecrated on 5th October 1833.
The church is dedicated to St James the Great, and was built on land given by the Revd James Armytage Rhodes and his wife Mary, who lived at nearby Mytholm Hall.