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Left is Mary Ann Holinrake, Grandmother of Derek Pollard. She lived in Heptonstall and worked in a sewing shop in Hebden Bridge. Mary holds a pair of scissors in her hand, the girl in the centre has a tape measure round her neck and the one on the…

View over Mytholm showing Mytholm Hall, and the King Street cottages that were prone to flooding. Right hand end of two storey house opposite was a Co-op. Bungalow in centre bottom was originally a Dawson City hut that was stone clad.
Christine…

Whilst working on the roof of his barn at higher blacks haw Farm, Ian Coates fell through this hole onto the concrete floor below.

The Yorkshire Air ambulance, seen here at Higher Blackshaw Farm, about to take Derek's cousin, Ian coates, to Leeds hospital after he had fallen through the roof of his barn. The BBC "Helicopter Heroes" team were on board and filmed the event which…

In July 2010 the old bridge was taken down and replaced.

When Mitchell's Mill closed down c1962, Percy Pollard got a job working for John Pickles at Mytholm, but steam was in his blood so he borrowed the money to buy this steam engine which he kept at home at Old Town house. c1963.

This photograph, attributed to the Hebden Bridge Times, appeared in "The Hebden", Calder High School's magazine for March 1952. The play was A A Milne's "Make Believe" and was the first full length play to be staged in the theatre at Calder High…

Flood defence work has just started.

Flood defence work.

Showing work on deepening the channel.

Flood defence work.

Flood defence work.

In December 1984 a train of petrol tankers derailed in the tunnel resulting in a fierce fire with flames rising out of the shafts visible for miles around high over the hillsides and the fire continued burning for several days. Remarkably there was…