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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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Looking down Hebden Water to West End Bridge with Old Gate on the right. The building on the left, which is to the rear of Westbourne House, was converted into a dwelling in 2012 and windows added. Beyond the bridge is Central Dyeworks to which an…

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Possibly the oldest picture in the Pennine Horizons Archive.

Whit Monday 1856 with 3000 Sunday School scholars and teachers with banners, gathered in The Croft, or more correctly the White Horse Croft. Seen here looking over to the rear of…

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HLS05092. Constructed by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and named after the Whitleys whose Calderside Mill was adjacent. When built the bow string bridge over the Rochdale Canal along with that at Gauxholme were about the first such bridges…

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HLS05091. Constructed by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and named after the Whitleys whose Calderside Mill was adjacent. When built the bow string bridge over the Rochdale Canal along with that at Gauxholme were about the first such bridges…

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Plan drawn in relation to litigation over water rights. Top right the recently constructed Station Road.

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The small town or even village on the right with New Road and the Calder. On the left Birchcliffe area with Keighley Road and Foster Lane. Ref: 006 Lit & Sci

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This can be accurately dated as to the right of Stubbings School, left centre, can be seen work on the construction of Zion Baptist Chapel which opened in 1882. Below it are the buildings on both sides of Commercial Street which were demolished in…

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In the centre Hope Baptist Chapel, and above the buildings the large storeyed Foster Mill, far right the chimney of Crossley Mill. Top left Cross Lanes Chapel at the top of The Buttress Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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At the bottom Pallis House and above it Hope Baptist Chapel. The large storeyed mill more or less in the centre is Foster Mill. Top left Heptonstall Road and Cross Lanes Chapel. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Taken prior to construction of the Co-Op (now Carlton Building) in 1876. At the bottom Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road and centre of the photo the large storeyed Foster Mill. top right below the quarry scar Keighley Road, or at the time this photo…

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Looking North East. Bottom centre Stubbing Holme with Calder Mill, destroyed by fire 1964. To the centre right of the photo the arches of Stubbings School and on the top hillside Old Town Mill. Demolition of Bridge Lanes and High Street houses is…

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Noticeboard of the low wooden building reads Marble, Granite, Stone MONUMENTS lettered

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In the foreground the station warehouse and sidings and above them across Calder Holmes is Crossley Mill.

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Poster offering a cheap trip to Hull in open wagons! At 3 shillings (15p) it wouldn't have seemed cheap to a textile worker on 15 shillings a week. However the Leeds Mercury reported that "people flocked from the hills and adjacent country including…

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HLS05096. Working a band knife at Nutclough Mill c.1890. The machinists behind working treadle sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made…

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HLS05097. Band knife cutters. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy fustians such as moleskins for heavy work wear but in…

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Cutting room pre- First World War with sewing machinists in the background with treadle Singer sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made…

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Sewing machinists at Nutclough Mill c.1910 with treadle Singer sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy…

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HLS05104. Finishers and special cutters in a Clothing Shop pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy…

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HLS05107. Wholesale Clothing Shop warehouse pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy fustians such as…
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