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  • Collection: David Fletcher collection

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The Civic Trust's annual clean-up of Hebden Water in the town centre seen here by the weir adjacent to Bridge Mill. Philip Round in the centre.

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The Civic Trust's annual river clean-up in the town centre seen here from Old Bridge looking towards St George's Bridge.

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Market Street, Hebden Bridge. The former Ebenezer Chapel. Now a gallery and the Hebden Bridge Times no longer has a presence in the town! See it now. The following text is taken from Looking Back at Hebden Bridge by Frank Horsfall & Terry Wyke…

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The former Ebenezer Chapel on Market Street, Hebden Bridge. The Latin inscription on the sun dial reads "What thou seekest is a shadow". The Hebden Bridge Times moved out many years ago to Crown Street and now no longer have an office in the town!

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Queens Terrace on the road up to Heptonstall. Sir Bernard Ingham was born here.

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Montrose Buildings, Lee View & Illingworth Villas, Lee Mill Road, Hebden Bridge.

A good example of the famous Hebden Bridge "Top & Bottom" houses, it can be seen from the differing paintwork that the top 2 storeys are in seperate ownership to the…

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The new Methodist Sunday School is in the process of being built with Salem Chapel to its left. The large building to the left is Melbourne Mill prior to its demolition (illegally, at 6 am on a Sunday morning without planning consent) to make way…

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Date unknown but after 1969 when the station warehouse was demolished following fire damage.

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On the right looking down Heptonstall Road to its junction with Bridge lanes and on the left a view of Bridge Lanes from Heptonstall Road.

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Bottom right of centre is Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works with Nutclough Mill before it was extended to the left. Above and top centre is the old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel.

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Looking from St Georges Street with Valley Road going off bottom right and the corner of the Council Offices on the left.

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Location unknown, but shows preparation ready for tree planting.

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Grade II listed, large yeoman clothiers house, probably late 17th century. The house as it was in 1965, prior to later ownership which abused and allowed it to fall into semi-dereliction. It has now been restored.

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Cllr Fred Barker, David Fletcher, Chairman Calder civic Trust, Douglas Houghton MP, Jim Wignall, Sec Calder Civic Trust. c1966

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The former Royal Oak on the right, now residential, and the White lion on the left as of 2015 vacant and for sale.

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Young volunteers creating a garden at Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge. Autumn 1968. Chris Greenwood standing left, 2nd girl from left Jane Longbottom now Brook, Susan Parker, Dianne Sayer now Harwood. Organised by Calder Civic Trust.

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The completed garden at Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge. Probably 1968/9.

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When the school had openrd in 1950 it was the first comprehensive in the West Riding.

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Birchcliffe Road, with Eiffel Street the first on the left and Edward Street the second. The date on the stone at the top of this first end house is 1839, and on the end house on the corner of Edward Street, the date is 1899.

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Typical of the town's near unique over and under double decker houses; technically 'Flying Freeholds'.
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