Lloyd Greenwood was born at Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. In 1938, he won a place at the Halifax Junior Technical School, now Calderdale College, and went on to become a clerk with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
He started work at the…
The church was built in 1848 in an Early English Style; it was a Million Pound church. The Sunday school, which can be seen on the left, was reduced to one story in the 1970s; this is now the church hall.
Date unknown but probably late 1940s/early 1950s as the first steel pre-fabricated houses at Dodnaze on Wadsworth Lane can be seen. Central Street and Riverside Schools feature prominently
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.
In the centre is Heath House and the track going off to the right goes up the Colden Valley to Jack Bridge.Winding up the hillside Mytholm Steeps which in pack-horse days was the main route between Hebden Bridge and Burnley. In the corner bottom…
Heptonstall has two churches within one graveyard. Although not unique, there is another instance at Alvingham in Lincolnshire, this is unusual. At the centre of the village are the ruins of the Church of St Thomas à Becket built between 1256 and…