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The houses on the right are Cliffe Royd and to their left terraced houses on Blenheim Street. Heptonstall Road climbing up to the village.

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Town view from beside Zion Chapel on Osborne Street with in the foreground buildings on Union Street and below that houses on both sides of Commercial Street, demolished mid-1960s. On the left near the top is Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road

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Looking across over Pallis House, centre bottom, with St Thomas RC Church and presbytery next to it. Date unknown but not a car to be seen but what appear to be open top trams on New Road which would date it pre- First World War.

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Hebden Bridge's Parish Church situated out of the town to the west at Mytholm. One of the so called 'million pound' churches it was built on land donated by the Rev. John Armytage Rhodes of adjacent Mytholm Hall. it was consecrated in 1933.

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Looking across the town from Cross Lanes Chapel Grave Yard at the top of the Buttress. Date unknown but prior to demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street in 1965.

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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…

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Viewed from king Street, the hall was demolished c.1969 and replaced by accommodation for the elderly. Behind it is St James Parish Church.

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Looking upstream from West End Bridge with Old Gate on the left and on the right the rear of now demolished buildings on Bridge Gate. Above these is St John's Church now replaced by housing. Only the cottages in the centre on the left have been…

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Above the houses the roof of St John's Church. The Church was consecrated in 1932 but became redundant and closed in1984. To the right of the church is Stubbings School.

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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.

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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.

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L to R Rev Vernon Staley, 1879-85, Rev George Sowden, 1861-99, Rev Augustine H. Walker, 1870-78. Photo given to St James PCC by the grand daughter of the Rev A.J. Fletcher

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Photo given to St James PCC by the grand daughter of the Rev A.J. Fletcher

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Photo given to St James PCC by the grand daughter of the Rev A.J. Fletcher

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St. James Sunday School Outing, between 1878-1884.
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