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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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Delivery van of Henry Fray beef and pork butcher of Luddenden and Hebden Bridge. Fray sold out to Elias Hillyard just before WW2 and his name is just visible on the van side.

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Delivery van of Henry Fray beef and pork butcher of Luddenden and Hebden Bridge. Fray sold out to Elias Hillyard just before WW2 and his name is just visible on the van side.

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30th October 1920. An outing of 37 people from the Robin Hood Inn at Pecket Well to Keighley ended in disaster when their charabanc overturned on a bend coming down from Cock Hill to Oxenhope. Five people were killed and four seriously injured. The…

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The foundation stone for this church was laid on 26th June 1929. The church opened on 6th May 1931. Those who gave money for the building included Mary Sowden.

The church became redundant in 1984 and is now private dwellings.

The pulpit and…

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The church became redundant in 1984 and was converted into private dwellings.

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Postcard. The cast iron Gauxholme Bridge over the Rochdale Canal was built by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and was described at the time as "a costly and beautiful structure possessing a most graceful appearance". Postcard.

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Hebden Bridge girl who attended Sowerby Bridge Grammar School. Photo taken c1966.

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Probably early 1920s. The photo was taken at the junction of Bridge Gate, Holme Street and New Road. Many years later these premises became the Tourist Information Centre.

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This was the original bridge on A646 between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. Note the sign 'Death Trap' because of the sharp right-angled bend. The bridge was rebuilt and further rebuilt when the canal was opened up. To the left of this photograph…

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Is this in a theatre or a church hall?

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Pre First World War. Halifax Corporation tram number 73, came into service November 1902, photographed here at the terminus on New Road near the junction with Crown Street. Trams ran from Halifax to Hebden Bridge from 1901 to 1936. On the left is the…

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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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William Simpson-Hinchcliffe is seated in the centre of the picture. The band is proudly showing the trophies they have won as well as their new uniforms which were paid for by Mr Hinchliffe.

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William Algenon Simpson-Hinchcliffe and Mrs Helen Simpson-Hinchcliffe with staff and workers gathered in the grounds of Cragg Hall to celebrate the re-modelling of Cragg Hall.

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Cragg Hall in its prime before the disastrous fire of 1921. Old Cragg Hall can be seen top left.

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Photograph of Cragg Hall, the grounds and mill employees, taken in 1907 after the Hall had been rebuilt and enlarged and the grounds laid out as shown.

Thanks to Sam Hellowell we are fortunate indeed to have nearly all 180 people named.


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