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Gibson Mill began its life around 1803 as a water-powered spinning mill. Less than a hundred years later, it was called Lord Holme Mill, part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to the National Trust by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood…

The price of fish, chips, tea and bread and butter is 8d. in the cafe nick named Mrs Cuddys on New Road. It was moved to the canal side on Holme Street and converted into a garage later becoming Southwells Coaches, which later became the site of the…

A view into the chancel of St James the Great, now the parish church of Hebden Bridge. A Grade II listed Commissioner's Church. Rev. A Rhodes and his wife Mary gave the land for the church to be built and the stone from a local quarry. The Church was…

Coronation Arch 1911

Cross Lanes Chapel

Chimney with Steeple Jacks

Hebden Bridge Council Offices

From Walshaw Railway - New Walshaw Reservoir above Blakedean

Lee Mill

Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel once stood proudly near the bottom of Midgley Road. Built in 1887, sadly dry rot caused the chapel to be closed in August 1960 and it was demolished in 1970 and flats now occupy the site.

After closure the…

Crossley Mill is to be found in the centre of the right hand edge of the picture. The main building of the Co-operative Industrial Society, Carlton Buildings, is in the centre of the photo, with Hope Baptist Church, in the foreground. Heptonstall…

Decorated Sewing Shop - 1911 Coronation

In a Dyers and Finishers

Harwoods Elect. S' Room

Inside a weaving Shed

Looking over Hebden Bridge to the Birchcliffe hillside. In the centre of the picture with its arched portico is the former Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, opened in 1899, now the Birchcliffe Centre, home of Pennine Heritage Ltd. The chapel looks newly…

Acre Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge

SD 92SE HEBDEN ROYD C.P. (off) SWINE MARKET LANE, SD 998235 Cragg Vale 3/266 Old Cragg Hall (formerly listed as Cragg Old Hall) 19.7.63 IIHouse, dated 1617. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. F-shaped plan, 5 divisions. 1st 2 formed by…

Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.