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Culverted Canal, Mytholmroyd - ALC00217
The canal is unusable, Mount Zion Church is being demolished, depressing times.
The chapel was opened in 1887, but by 1960 it was suffering from dry rot. It closed in August 1960 and was demolished in 1970.
The chapel was opened in 1887, but by 1960 it was suffering from dry rot. It closed in August 1960 and was demolished in 1970.
Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel, Hebden Bridge - ALC00218
Circa 1900. Foster Mill, owned by Redman Bros, was part of the Hebden Estate Company. William Henry Cockroft designed the Methodist Chapel. Moss Lane on the hillside leads to Heptonstall Road. Top left is Cross Lanes Chapel with the Manse on the…
West End, Hebden Bridge c.1924 - ALC00219
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…
Rebuilding Moderna Bridge 1986 - ALC00220
Rebuilding the bridge over the Rochdale canal at Moderna east of Mytholmroyd.
West End, Hebden Bridge - ALC00221
Circa 1930. The first building on the left is on the end of Bridge Gate and was partly demolished when New Road was widened in 1931. The remaining part of the building is now Holt's Greengrocers.
Parade, Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge - ALC00226
Hebden Bridge Brass Band leading a parade down Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge
View over Mytholmroyd - ALC00227
Taken from above Broadbottom, c1910. On the left of the picture are White Houses. On the right is the site of Caldene, Nest and Stocks estates. Below the wood on the left of the picture is Scout road School, to the right of which is Woodleigh, then…
Hebden Bridge Railway Station, c1910 - ALC00228
To the left of the picture is the site of the Fairfield Estate which was built on Hebden Bridge Co-op land. The houses adjoining this land were built for the carters employed by the Co-op. On the right stands Victoria Mill which was occupied for many…
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield. c.1912. - ALC00229
Palace House is in the right foreground and to the left is the Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury adjoining which is the school, now demolished. Beyond Palace House is Calder Holmes and the original canal basin and New road. An open top…
Canal at Fallingroyd, c1910 - ALC00230
The barge 'James' on the Rochdale Canal at Fallingroyd between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd passing the Old Vicarage renamed Acacia House. Beyond the trees is Fallingroyd House.
Burnley Road at Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00231
The gentleman with the horse is George William Thomas, son of James Farrar Thomas. The building on the right was the Tythe Barn. It became a pub and restaurant of that name, later changed to The Thirsty Turtle, now a private house. Behind it is…
Royal Electric Theatre, Hebden Bridge, February 10th 1913 - ALC00233
This cinema opened on New Road on 1st January 1912 and closed June 24th 1921. It stood on the site of the Memorial Gardens along with the UCP shop and the Black and White Cafe. Later the cinema became a billiard hall.
The last hand loom weaver, c1896 - ALC00234
Possibly Jack-o-Bog Eggs, Wadsworth, possibly the last of the hand-loom weaver in the Hebden Bridge area.
Mytholmroyd Railway Station - ALC00239
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…
View over Hebden Bridge, c1898 - ALC00240
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…
Note the…
View over Hebden Bridge - ALC00242
View over Hebden Bridge showing Heptonstall Road and Queen's Terrace
Bottom of Buttress, Hebden Bridge - ALC00243
Known as Buttress Brink it was a warren of dwellings demolished in the 1960s.
Rochdale Canal Restoration Hebden Bridge - ALC00245
Restoration work on the Rochdale Canal showing the dry dock.
Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall - ALC00247
Children coming home from school in the 1890s.