Taken from the bridge on Midgley Road, the low wall on the left is all that remains of Mytholmroyd Mill. The large mill on the left is Westfield Mill. The gas holder can be seen on the right of the picture.
A Hebden Bridge Light opera production, 1949. L_R Back Row Enid Irving, Audrey Beasley, Margaret Dunkley, Gladys Wills
Front row: Inez Norrish, Kathleen Horner, Nora Wheatley, Marjory Holmes. (Marjorie married Derek Powell and Kenneth Lord for her…
The Catholic movement in Hebden Bridge appears to have taken shape during the missionary activities of Father Joseph Geary, who settled at St. Mary’s, Halifax in 1870. The few who were gathered together in Hebden Bridge began meetings in a room at…
Back Row L-R Gladys Wills, Jean McAuliffe, Jack McHale, Barbara Hartley, Barbara Noon.
Front Row L-R Clifford Uttley ? Hannah Jackson, Alice Booth, Mary Simkin, Jim Brown.
Moderna blankets, made in Mytholmroyd, were guaranteed to be mothproof, fadeless, unshrinkable and odourless - and which became world-famous. The firm developed a material known as wool-fibro, which was used for making coats and clothing. In 1951,…