Thanks to Mrs Eileen Crombie all except two boys in the cast of Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel's Nativity play c1957 have been named as follows: back row, left to right: Graham Walmsley, Graham Lord, Stephen Hardcastle, Martin Hoyle (in striped cap),…
View from Wood Top across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, is wedged between, on the right Victoria Mill, occupied for many years by F. & H. Sutcliffe who manufactured portable wooden buildings, and on its left…
The bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Fallingroyd, between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, was replaced by this tunnel in 1986 when the dangerous bend in the road over the canal was re-aligned.
Situated between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. Demolished around due to dry rot.
In 1873 Daniel Jones Crossley moved into his newly built Falling Royd House along with his wife and 2 sons. The wages book for the servants lists a cook, and three…
As we come down the hillside and along Heptonstall Road we pass Cross Lane Chapel (United Methodists) on the right of the picture. Further down the road we approach Queens Terrace and Albion Terrace.
Circa 1900. Foster Mill, owned by Redman Bros, was part of the Hebden Estate Company. William Henry Cockroft designed the Methodist Chapel. Moss Lane on the hillside leads to Heptonstall Road. Top left is Cross Lanes Chapel with the Manse on the…
West End looking towards New Road. Date unknown but the car has a post-1921 Leeds registration number. From the far end the shops are: first three Blackburn Ironmongers; Haighs Music Shop; Westerman's Photographic Studio; Cockcrofts and Watsons. On…
Circa 1930. The first building on the left is on the end of Bridge Gate and was partly demolished when New Road was widened in 1931. The remaining part of the building is now Holt's Greengrocers.