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Pace Eggers - ALC00921
The ancient Pace Eggs plays were performed in Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge on Good Fridays. The practice has been re-introduced in Hebden Bridge by pupils from Calder High School with an adult caste in Heptonstall. Both draw large crowds.
Mr Harris - ALC00907
Family of wrestlers, lived at Nest Estate
Looking down Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall - ALC00895
Looking down Smithwell Lane towards Towngate after the sets (cobbles) had been covered with tarmacadam in the 1960s.
Midgehole Tennis Club members - ALC00893
The second person in on the back row left is Ivy Redman, the 5th person is Hilda Cockcroft (in white).
On the front row far right is Wallace Redman.
The tennis club appears on a 1934 map, but this photo was possibly taken in the early 1950s.
On the front row far right is Wallace Redman.
The tennis club appears on a 1934 map, but this photo was possibly taken in the early 1950s.
Top o'th Town, Heptonstall c1900 - ALC00890
The shop on the right was both grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The Royal Electric Theatre, Hebden Bridge - ALC00882
The Royal Electric Theatre' on New Road opened in 1913 on what is now the Memorial Gardens. It ceased as a cinema June 24th 1921 when the present day Picture House opened.
Regent House, New Road, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00854
Flower gardens fronted the busy Burnley Road before the road was widened in 1931, which necessitated the demolition of the building on the left fronting onto Bridge Gate; it was replaced with a shop on the truncated corner, now Holt’s greengrocers.…
Hole in the Wall - ALC00853
The old Hole in the Wall pub on Oldgate at the bottom of Buttress. Demolished and replaced by new pub in the 1890s.
Hebble Hole Bridge, Colden Clough - ALC00846
Postcard. 1960s.
Parrock, Mytholmroyd - ALC00845
Postcard. 1900s.
Blake Dean - ALC00844
Postcard. 1960s.
Pecket Well - ALC00843
Postcard. 1960s.
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean, c1902 - ALC00842
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…