Looking across Hebden Bridge from Fairfield, Palace House road is in the foreground with the railway station behind. Note all the trucks in the sidings. Behind the station on the far side of the field, next to the canal, the large Crossley Mill…
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.
Mytholm Church School, Hebden Bridge, also known as Hebden Bridge National School, St James Day School and St James School, Hebden Bridge. The need for a school was prompted by Rev George Sowden. It was built by subscription. The corner-stone was…
Whilst several of the Nonconformist Chapels are in or near the town centre the Parish Church is out at Mytholm. Historically Hebden Bridge came within the Parochial Chapelry of Heptonstall, part of the vast Halifax Parish. With the growing…
HLS05078. The church viewed from the 'inner lane' to Eaves. That lane passing the church is now only access to the school and Eaves Road has been cut into the hill on the right joining the 'lane' about by the end of the building on the left.
The Parish Church of Hebden Bridge, dedicated to St James the Great, was consecrated in 1833. The church was built on land given by the Revd. James Armitage Rhodes and his wife Mary, who lived at nearby Mytholm Hall.
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
The former Ebenezer Chapel on Market Street, Hebden Bridge. The Latin inscription on the sun dial reads "What thou seekest is a shadow". The Hebden Bridge Times moved out many years ago to Crown Street and now no longer have an office in the town!
Market Street, Hebden Bridge. The former Ebenezer Chapel. Now a gallery and the Hebden Bridge Times no longer has a presence in the town! See it now. The following text is taken from Looking Back at Hebden Bridge by Frank Horsfall & Terry Wyke…
Bottom right Calder Holmes with part of Crossley Mill, destroyed by fire 1964. At the bottom St Thomas's Catholic Church and Presbytery. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Bottom right Salem Milll, now the site of the Co-op, and to its left the rear of Salem Chapel and in the lefthand corner is Breck Mill, a flour mill, and above that terrace housing on High Street behind Bridge Lanes; all long demolished. Queens…
Looking over from Heptonstall Hillside. Bottom left Foster Mill, centre Hangingroyd Works, centre right Hebden Works with Nutclough Mill above. With the exception of Nutclough Mill most now demolished. Centre left going off at an angle the so called…
Centre left Moss Lane climbing up to Lee Wood Road with Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel, destroyed by fire mid 1960s, to the left. Heptonstall above it. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Composite of Hebden Royd churches. St Michael's Mytholmroyd at the top, St James', Hebden Bridge on the right with St John's in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale inset. Ref: 001KSL
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…