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  • Collection: David Fletcher collection

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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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Between Mytholmroyd and Luddendenfoot.

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Above Hebden Bridge near Mount Skip. Early 1970s. the Civic Trust. highlighting environmental issues.

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To his left is Calder Mill with its landmark chimney. Much of the mill was gutted by fire in 1964.

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Civic Trust volunteers collecting rubbish from the Hebden Water in the centre of Hebden Bridge. Probably late 1960s. St George's Bridge at the top.

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The boyhood home of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998.

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Location not known.

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Shop on the corner of St George's Square and Crown Street.

Originally built by Hebden Bridge Co-operative Society with the water tank above to also serve the main retail and social facilities on the other side of Crown Street. The water tank has…

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On the right the rear of dwellings on Industrial Street, the lower block has now been demolished and replaced with landscaping and a small car park. Industrial Street was then re-named Garden Terrace. Stubbings School at the bottom.

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Early 1960s looking down onto Bridge Lanes centre right, to the left Adelaide Street and Bankfoot Garage with Bankfoot Mill.

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On the left the River Calder with Stubbing Holme Road. On the right is Calder Place, early 19th century 'bottom' houses, some single storey, with barreled arched stone ceilings, beneath the 'top' houses fronting Bridge Lanes.

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David Fletcher giving a talk at the Birchcliffe Centre in the upper floor of the chapel after its first conversion to form a community space. The Birchcliffe Centre received a Heritage Lottery grant to improve the facilities of this upper floor which…

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Lower left Foster Mill with Hangingroyd Mill, Hebden Works and Nutclough Mill and Hebden Water in the centre. Top left the old Bircliffe Chapel with Birchcliffe Road/Wadsworth Lane climbing the hillside.

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This was a General Improvement Area, c1972. The houses on Industrial Street were renovated and the street re-named Garden Terrace.

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This stone marks the old boundary between Heptonstall and Wadsworth civil parishes or townships.

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The planted areas in 1967, this area is now the Bridge Gate car park

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Landscaping by the Civic Trust with David Fletcher on the right. The buildings, including Bridge Gale Mill on the left, long demolished to make way for the St Pol Car Park and riverside walkway.

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Probably shortly after demolition to make way for the car park.

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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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Following demolition of dwellings on the north side of Bridge Lanes and High Street in 1964. The site was left derelict for some years.

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Soon after demolition of the High Street and Back High Street houses, c1966. This area stayed derelict for about ten years before it was landscaped. The white building on the left of the picture is the Fox and Goose.
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