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Hebden Bridge - 1911 Coronation Arch - ALC00345
ALC00345. West side of the festival arch for the coronation of George V in June 1911 looking through to Holme House. This side was lit by gas whilst the other was lit by electricity.
Hebden Bridge - 1911 Coronation Arch - ALC00346
ALC00346. East side of the festival arch for the coronation of George V in June 1911 looking through to Westbourne House. This side was lit by electricity whilst the other was lit by gas.
Hebden Bridge - Tram Terminus, 1910 - ALC00347
Pre First World War. Halifax Corporation tram number 73, came into service November 1902, photographed here at the terminus on New Road near the junction with Crown Street. Trams ran from Halifax to Hebden Bridge from 1901 to 1936. On the left is the…
Hebden Bridge - Tram Terminus - ALC00348
The tram terminus on New Road, near the junction with Holme Street, left, and Bridge Gate, right looking towards West End. The white sign on the right-hand building points to C Westerman, Photographer, on West End and the signs on the left-hand…
Hebden Bridge - New Road - ALC00349
About 1960 but a slushy New Road is still cobbled. Holts building originally jutted further out and the other buildings had gardens but all removed to widen the pavement.
Hebden Bridge - New Road - ALC00350
ALC00350. Looking towards West End. Timothy Whites was taken over by Boots in 1968 and most stores closed and in 1976 the one seen here became the Tourist Information Centre and is now AJs Fish & Chips. Next to it is the Yorkshire Bank, now…
Hebden Bridge - Crown Street - ALC00351
The junction of Crown Street and New Road. Spencer's building on the left was demolished and the gardens also removed when New Road was widened in the 1930s. The opening on the right is now Holt's yard.
Hebden Bridge - Memorial Garden - ALC00352
The Memorial Gardens on the official opening day 10th August 1938, many years after neighbouring War Memorials had been opened.
The public had subscribed £5,000 for the scheme which had been instigated by Cllr Arthur Holt and his daughter, Miss…
The public had subscribed £5,000 for the scheme which had been instigated by Cllr Arthur Holt and his daughter, Miss…
Hebden Bridge - Memorial Gardens - ALC00353
ALC00353. Opening day 10th August 1938.
Hebden Bridge - Calder Holmes - ALC00354
c1929. Hebden Bridge Agricultural Show. Hebden Bridge Urban District Council purchased Calder Holmes Park in 1931 to be an open space for the town. Here we have an uninterrupted view across to Riverside School prior to the building of the Little…
Hebden Bridge - General View - ALC00355
Rear of Holme House in the foreground and above it the now demolished mill on Bridge Gate; centre right the Hole-in-the-Wall hotel. Date unknown but prior to the demolition in 1931 of the building on Bridge Gate at its junction with New Road.
Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge, c1931 - ALC00356
Horsfall Hairdressers; left to right, Tom Horsfall, Ethel Wood, Arthur Widdop and J W Horsfall. Now the site of the St Pol Car Park. On the left the now demolished Bridge Gate mill or clothing shop.
Hebden Bridge - The Old Bridge - ALC00357
The Old Bridge looking downstream towards West End. The plaques on the abutment record it was repaired in 1602 and 1657. The building on the left on Bridge Gate was Thomas Marshall, coal merchant, that building and the mill beyond have long been…
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Bridge - ALC00358
ALC00358. St Georges Bridge across the Hebden Water was erected in 1893. The houses to the left on Blackwater Street were demolished about 1896 to make way for the new Council's Offices. On the right the rear of the Shoulder of Mutton and beyond is…
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Bridge. - ALC00359
ALC00359. St Georges Bridge was built in 1893 and here in about 1896 the partially constructed Council Offices are on the left. The rear of the Shoulder of Mutton on the right with Bridge Mill beyond.
Hebden Bridge - The Old Bridge - ALC00360
The Old Bridge originally built 1510 and repaired in 1602 and 1657 when it was described "in great ruin and decay". Seen here in about 1900 looking over to Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s, with the new 'Hole in the Wall' pub on the right.
Hebden Bridge - Buttress Brink - ALC00361
c.1890. The 'old' Hole in the Wall and Buttress Brink, a warren of dwellings, demolished 1960s.
Hebden Bridge - The Buttress Bottom - ALC00362
Looking at the bottom of the Buttress. Date unknown but the building on the right was part of Buttress Brink and demolished 1960s. Across on the hillside is Zion Baptist Chapel ,built 1881, and below that the buildings on Commercial Street and Garden…
Hebden Bridge - Hangingroyd Lane - ALC00363
Hangingroyd Lane about 1962; on the right Market Place before landscaping.
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Square - ALC00364
From the Square looking up to Keighley Road; on the left Bridge Mill, used by Chorlton Bros., Wholesale Clothiers, and beyond that the White Lion and opposite it the junction of Bridge Gate with Commercial Street before it was re-aligned 1964/65 to…
Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe - ALC00365
Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Square - ALC00366
St Georges Square looking across to the Shoulder of Mutton and behind can be seen partially demolished buildings on Buttress Brink.. The car in the foreground has a 1968/9 'G' registration number. Note the water tank on the top of the building on the…
Hebden Bridge - Albert Street - ALC00367
ALC00367.Top of Albert Street at its junction with Garden Street.
Hebden Bridge - White Horse Hotel - ALC00368
The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, it closed 1960, and on the Monday afternoon of 26th November, 1962, demolition workers were sending the walls of the White Horse Hotel crashing to the ground. A few hours later, across the street…
Hebden Bridge - Stubbings Steps - ALC00369
Stubbings Steps from School Street down to Commercial Street in the 1950s. The building at the bottom was originally the toll bar house on the Lees and Hebden Bridge Turnpike Road.
Recalling the days of moody black and white films such as “Room at…
Recalling the days of moody black and white films such as “Room at…