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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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The stone on the Old Bridge reads 'repaired by help John Grewod sessions 1602'

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Top left - Cross Stone Church. Bottom left - Town Hall, Bottom Right - Unitarian Chapel, Top Right - Stoodley Pike.

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This Grade II listed chapel is situated off Northgate, Heptonstall, and is one of the earliest Wesleyan chapels in the country. John Wesley laid the foundation stone for the unusual octagonal building which was completed in 1764, since when it has…

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June 5th 1923. Dear E, Are these the photos spoken of? You may keep these if they are of any use to you. W.A. Addressed to E. W. Watson Esq. The photos referred to are HLS01038/40/41.

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The chapel was built in 1777. Seen here in use as the premises of the Hebden Bridge Times. This photo therefore predates its move to a new location in Crown Street in1979.

The following text is taken from Looking Back at Hebden Bridge by Frank…

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This picture was presented to Hebden Bridge Local History Society by Mr D Thomas of Wyke. 4th February 1988. For details of the memorial stone see HLS01044.

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This picture was presented to Hebden Bridge Local History Society by Mr D Thomas of Wyke. 4th February 1988.

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L to R. Back Row - Mr George Seal, George Croad, Terence Mitchell, Joe Thomas, Willie Wade, George Horsfall, Harold Horsfall, Howard Thomas, Ronald Craven, Jimmy Ackroyd (Stumpy Jim). 3rd Row from front - Ida Windle, Mary Ashworth, Gwen Pickles,…

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L to R. Back Row - Miss Lottie Eastwood, Selwyn Berkley, Albert Parker, Fred Bramall, Ronald Greenwood, Edward Astin, Eric Shaw, James Stansfield, Denis Parker, Kenneth Wilcock, Mr George Seel. Middle Row - Raymond Pickles, Hida (Hilda?) Jackson,…

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Back Row, 4th from left, Mr L Lord. 7th from left Mrs E Spencer. Middle Row, 6th from left, Mary Leedham, 8th from left Mrs E Thomas, 11th from left (Polka Dot dress) Lilliam Milner.

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The Time They Won the Shield, but can anyone say when and what for?

From Mr Joe Thomas per Mrs Mary Crabtree. L to R. Back Row - Edith Warmsley, Martha Lord, Nora Crowther, Doris Bankcroft, ?, Nellie Moss, Gladys Wild, Winnie Hamer, Ive Coals,…

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This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom left to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…

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Barber Gledhill papers found for removal. See also HLS01055 and 6 for full story.

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Bob Gledhill (left) and Mr Taylor, Geography Master at Todmorden Grammar School with papers found for removal. See also HLS01054 and 6 for full story.

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Quote from Bob Gledhill, the photographer of these images. 'Documents in the attic as we found them. The boy of the house had been rummaging through for postage stamps. Industrial Accounts. Ovenden Township lists. Letter from Dorothy Wordsworth.'…

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Outing to Beamish Open Air Museum. Preparing to go into the mine.

PH49.

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Cleaning gravestones in Heptonstall Churchyard before recording the inscriptions.

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Hebden Bridge Local History Group members investigating the turnpike road at Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge. It was abandoned in 1825. .
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