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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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Cragg Hall, Cragg Vale, was the home of the Hinchliffe family. It burnt down in 1921.

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Messrs Astin Bros, Hebden Bridge, June 3rd 1919. Photo taken on the market ground, Hebden Bridge.

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Messrs Astin Bros, of Hebden Bridge and Sowerby Bridge, June 3rd 1919. Photo taken on the market ground, Hebden Bridge.

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Messrs Astin Bros, of Hebden Bridge and Sowerby Bridge, June 3rd 1919. Photo taken on the market ground, Hebden Bridge.

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Messrs Astin Bros, Hebden Bridge, June 3rd 1919. Photo taken on the market ground, Hebden Bridge.

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Messrs Astin Bros, Hebden Bridge, June 3rd 1919. Photo taken on the market ground, Hebden Bridge.

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The rocking pig stone is just visible at top right.

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Think this is Widdop Gate looking over to Blake Dean hill. The building in foreground is now Widdop Gate Hostel.

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Situated on the corner of Keighley Road and Bridge Gate, this is one of the oldest buildings in Hebden Bridge.

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Hebden Bridge Light Opera Society, 1962

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The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, although Barry Ledgard tells us that a licensee of the White Horse Inn, William Jackson, was charged with running a stage carriage without a licence, every Market day, to Halifax, and was caught…

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Crossley Westerman was born in Hebden Bridge in 1861, the youngest of the three children of Henry and Sarah Westerman. Crossley’s father died in 1873 and his mother was left to bring up the family on her own. She opened a toyshop at West End, Hebden…

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Relaying sets at West End near the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Note the last building on Bridge Gate, this was later pulled down to enable widening of the main road.

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West End looking towards New Road. Date unknown but the car has a post-1921 Leeds registration number. From the far end the shops are: first three Blackburn Ironmongers; Haighs Music Shop; Westerman's Photographic Studio; Cockcrofts and Watsons. On…

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Traffic lights now replace the policeman at this junction of New Road, Bridge Gate, Holme Street and West End. The building of the corner on the left was for many years Blackburn's Ironmongers. The house next to the pharmacy is Westbourne House and…

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This floral arrangement hung from the centre of the arch built to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.

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Probably early 1920s. The photo was taken at the junction of Bridge Gate, Holme Street and New Road. Many years later these premises became the Tourist Information Centre.

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Horse and cart crossing West End Bridge in to Market Street. Jackson Merchant Tailor's at the junction with Old Gate looking down Market Street. Building now demolished.

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Relaying the setts at West End. Westbourne House is on the left with the end of Bridge Gate beyond, before the end property was removed to widen the road. Crossley Westerman's, later Alice Longstaff's studio was on the right

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The foundation stone of this Chapel was laid by John Wesley, and erected in 1764. The shape is octagonal. In the building of this chapel there appears to have been almost an element of romance; women as well as men, coming even from a distance and…
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