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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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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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The blocks of flats at Mytholm Close, replaced early 21st with houses. Behind left is Bankfoot Mill which was demolished in 1971 and centre right Bridge Lanes and the bottom of Heptonstall Road.

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Looking across Mytholm to the Steeps up to Blackshawhead. In the foreground the canal and towpath and centre right Mytholm Hall is just visible. In the foreground Stubbings Holme Dyeworks and above it Brown's factory, both now long gone.

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c. 1900 view across Mytholm looking up Colden Valley. On the right Mytholm Hall with St James Church behind. The hall was demolished late 1960s and replaced with accommodation for the elderly. Above the church are Eaves Lower and Upper Mills…

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Date unknown. In the centre the engineering works of Pickles, later Browns, and now demolished. The Parish Church of St James to the right was built in 1832, and to the right of that is Mytholm Hall.

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Looking up the valley to Charlestown. The tall chimney is Calderside Mill built in 1824 as a cotton mill but converted to a dyeworks in 1875. It was built by John Whiteley and the neighbouring railway viaduct became known as Whitley Arches. The mill…

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Looking over the buildings on the south side of Bridge Lanes to Heptonstall Road shortly after the north side had been demolished in 1964.

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Pre-1960. Looking from above Palace House Road over to Heptonstall Road and Cross Lanes Chapel on the hillside, demolished in the mid-1960s. Bottom right corner the top of Hope Baptist just visible.

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ALC00397. Bottom of Heptonstall Road prior to the demolition of the north side of Bridge Lanes in 1964.

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ALC00398. c. 1880. Looking across to Birchcliffe with Foster Mill and Foster Lane on the left. On the left hillside is the 'old' Birchcliffe Chapel and graveyard on Sandy Gate. Wadsworth Lane climbs the hill and to its right are the houses on Cliff…

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c.1888. In the centre is Nutclough Mill before the extension to the left, and above 'old' Birchcliffe Chapel. Housing starting to be developed on the hillside; top right Cliffe Royd on Wadsworth Lane and right behind the north side of Blenheim…
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