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Mrs May Foster & Mrs Lumb - ALC00225
See 00152 - 00159; 170 - 175; 223 - 225.
Parade, Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge - ALC00226
Hebden Bridge Brass Band leading a parade down Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge
View over Mytholmroyd - ALC00227
Taken from above Broadbottom, c1910. On the left of the picture are White Houses. On the right is the site of Caldene, Nest and Stocks estates. Below the wood on the left of the picture is Scout road School, to the right of which is Woodleigh, then…
Hebden Bridge Railway Station, c1910 - ALC00228
To the left of the picture is the site of the Fairfield Estate which was built on Hebden Bridge Co-op land. The houses adjoining this land were built for the carters employed by the Co-op. On the right stands Victoria Mill which was occupied for many…
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield. c.1912. - ALC00229
Palace House is in the right foreground and to the left is the Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury adjoining which is the school, now demolished. Beyond Palace House is Calder Holmes and the original canal basin and New road. An open top…
Canal at Fallingroyd, c1910 - ALC00230
The barge 'James' on the Rochdale Canal at Fallingroyd between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd passing the Old Vicarage renamed Acacia House. Beyond the trees is Fallingroyd House.
Burnley Road at Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00231
The gentleman with the horse is George William Thomas, son of James Farrar Thomas. The building on the right was the Tythe Barn. It became a pub and restaurant of that name, later changed to The Thirsty Turtle, now a private house. Behind it is…
Station Road, Hebden Bridge - ALC00232
An open top tram on Burnley Road looking up Station Road to the large station warehouse, early 20th century. The Halifax Corporation trams reached Hebden Bridge in November 1901.
Royal Electric Theatre, Hebden Bridge, February 10th 1913 - ALC00233
This cinema opened on New Road on 1st January 1912 and closed June 24th 1921. It stood on the site of the Memorial Gardens along with the UCP shop and the Black and White Cafe. Later the cinema became a billiard hall.
The last hand loom weaver, c1896 - ALC00234
Possibly Jack-o-Bog Eggs, Wadsworth, possibly the last of the hand-loom weaver in the Hebden Bridge area.
Mytholmroyd Railway Station - ALC00239
The station is on a narrow embankment with the 'up', Manchester, platform buildings supported by stilts. The covered structure to the left of the building crossed under the viaduct to the main station building at first floor level. At the time this…
View over Hebden Bridge, c1898 - ALC00240
View over Hebden Bridge, with High Hurst on the horizon and showing the old Birchcliffe Chapel with its graveyard and the new one, now the Birchcliffe Centre, under construction. The houses of Eiffel Street are also under construction.
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View over Hebden Bridge - ALC00242
View over Hebden Bridge showing Heptonstall Road and Queen's Terrace
Bottom of Buttress, Hebden Bridge - ALC00243
Known as Buttress Brink it was a warren of dwellings demolished in the 1960s.
Rochdale Canal Restoration Hebden Bridge - ALC00245
Restoration work on the Rochdale Canal showing the dry dock.
View over Hebden Bridge - ALC00246
General view of Hebden Bridge showing Bridge Lanes, Heptonstall Road and the track leading to Hell Hole Rocks. In the foreground Calder Mill which was largely destroyed by fire in 1968 although by then no longer a cotton mill.
Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall - ALC00247
Children coming home from school in the 1890s.
Acre Mill, Billy Lane, Wadswoth - ALC00249
Across the centre is Acre Mill of Cape Asbestos. Known as 'The Killer Mill' after the asbestosis suffered by its workers due to breathing in asbestos dust. It closed in 1970 and was demolished in 1979 apart from the building seen down the centre of…