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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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The station is on a narrow embankment with the 'up', Manchester, platform buildings supported by stilts. The covered structure to the left of the building crossed under the viaduct to the main station building at first floor level. At the time this…

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View over Hebden Bridge, with High Hurst on the horizon and showing the old Birchcliffe Chapel with its graveyard and the new one, now the Birchcliffe Centre, under construction. The houses of Eiffel Street are also under construction.

Note the…

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View over Hebden Bridge showing Heptonstall Road and Queen's Terrace

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Known as Buttress Brink it was a warren of dwellings demolished in the 1960s.

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Restoration work on the Rochdale Canal showing the dry dock.

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General view of Hebden Bridge showing Bridge Lanes, Heptonstall Road and the track leading to Hell Hole Rocks. In the foreground Calder Mill which was largely destroyed by fire in 1968 although by then no longer a cotton mill.

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Across the centre is Acre Mill of Cape Asbestos. Known as 'The Killer Mill' after the asbestosis suffered by its workers due to breathing in asbestos dust. It closed in 1970 and was demolished in 1979 apart from the building seen down the centre of…

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View over Hebden Bridge to Old Town. St John's church can be seen next to Stubbings School on the far right. c1964

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Photo taken behind Burnley Road school, looking towards Mytholmroyd. The barge has just been through Broadbottom lock. The building on the left is part of the sewerage works and the gas holder can be seen in the distance.

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Probably taken from the top of the tower of St Michaels, before Caldene bridge and estate were built.

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The houses bottom right at Calder Bank now demolished and the field above them now the site of Riverside School which opened 1909. To its left across the river is Central Street School.

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Formerly 042.

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The rocking pig stone is just visible at top right.

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The terrace far left is Nursery Nook on Keighley Road with below it Lee Mill Road and going off that to its right is Windsor Road and below that Foster Mill Dam with Foster Mill.
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