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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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From the Square looking up to Keighley Road; on the left Bridge Mill, used by Chorlton Bros., Wholesale Clothiers, and beyond that the White Lion and opposite it the junction of Bridge Gate with Commercial Street before it was re-aligned 1964/65 to…

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Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.

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St Georges Square looking across to the Shoulder of Mutton and behind can be seen partially demolished buildings on Buttress Brink.. The car in the foreground has a 1968/9 'G' registration number. Note the water tank on the top of the building on the…

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ALC00367.Top of Albert Street at its junction with Garden Street. This section of Albert Street was at one time called Victoria Street - the sign for this can be seen on one of the stones to the right of the long sign above the shop window. The sign…

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The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, it closed 1960, and on the Monday afternoon of 26th November, 1962, demolition workers were sending the walls of the White Horse Hotel crashing to the ground. A few hours later, across the street…

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Stubbings Steps from School Street down to Commercial Street in the 1950s. The building at the bottom was originally the toll bar house on the Lees and Hebden Bridge Turnpike Road.

Recalling the days of moody black and white films such as “Room at…

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The bottom of Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street before Commercial Street was re-aligned in 1959 to carry straight on up Keighley Road; the buildings on the left were demolished at that time. The buildings on the right still…

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ALC00371. Horse and four wheeled trap on Burnley Road below Mayroyd Hall and the old Tythe Barn. The man with the horse is George Wm Thomas son of James Farrer Thomas.

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Situated between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. Demolished around due to dry rot.

See photograph Ref. 010a of Daniel Jones Crossley who moved into the newly built Fallingroyd House in 1873 with his wife and two sons.

In 1873 Daniel Jones Crossley…

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ALC00373. Looking down the Cuckoo Steps, still there, which run from Heptonstall Road, down to Bridge lanes. All of the buildings seen here have been demolished, centre right is High Street.

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ALC00374. Demolition of the warren like Buttress Brink started in 1967. The building in the foreground is the old "Hole in the Wall"

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Looking up Bridge Lanes towards its junction with Heptonstall Road. The large building on the left was Breck Mill, a corn mill, now demolished. On the right the buildings beyond the high gabled building were all demolished in 1964 and the area…

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The north side of Bridge Lanes prior to demolition in early 1964.

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High Street but not as in Main Street but as in 'high'. It ran parallel to Bridge Lanes below Heptonstall Road and was demolished at the same time as Bridge Lanes in 1963/4.

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ALC00378. In the centre is Foster Lane Wesleyan Chapel which opened in 1904 and closed and demolished in the mid-1960s. To the right is Foster Mill, demolished early 1980s, and top left Cross Lanes United Methodist Chapel, opened 1840 destroyed by…

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St Georges Square, left, and Bridge Gate right. The shop was Elton Jowett's tobacconist shop, his house was next door, and the shop on the corner behind the van was the Economic Stores. The wooden hut on Bridge Gate was Ma Jones'.

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Market Street looking towards Bridge Lanes and the chimney of Calder Mill.

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The great flood of September 20th 1946. Hebden Water and the Old Bridge. Taken from St Georges Bridge, the Council Offices are on the right.

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Albert Street looking down to Crossley Mill on New Road, with the Albert Hotel on the right and Croft Mill on the left. The floods of 1946 were generally regarded as the worst of the 20th century. Albert Street, Hebden Bridge, was among the areas…

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Hope Street. The building with the gabled porch was for many years the Police Station.

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Taken from the bridge leading to the Stubbing Wharf.

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1960s demolition of the corner of Savile Road on King Street. St James Church just visible in the centre.

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Clearing the site for flats at Mytholm Close. The near buildings on the right are opposite the bottom of Heptonstall Road. Just visible to their left is the Fox & Goose and to their right the undemolished north side of Bridge Lanes. Adelaide Street…
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