Band outside the bank building at the corner of Albert Street and Hope Street, name of the bank on the windows not discernible but now Lloyds Bank (2015). Date unknown.
Part of a collection of postcards posted to Mr A Barrett, 147 Halifax Road, Todmorden dated 15.7.1918. written on the rear is: 'A Leyland which had 500gallons of petrol on board, which had the misfortune to be struck by lightning. This is what…
The aqueduct carrying the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder. On the left Central Dyeworks now enlarged and converted into apartments Above the aqueduct Queens Terrace on Heptonstall Road. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
The long, rambling and oddly-shaped old building occupies a somewhat obscure site directly beneath St George’s Church at Quarry Hill. No connected story…
The building in the centre of the picture is the rear of the shops fronting onto Bridge Gate that were demolished, the space is now occupied by a car park. The foreground is the river wall.
One of the engines used in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This picture is believed to have been taken in 1903 at the halt below Heptonstall Slack.
Bankfoot Garage, with a single petrol pump, looking up towards buildings on Heptonstall Road. The left-hand drive car by the garage has a post-1921 Leeds registration number.
Looking down towards Bankfoot. Bankfoot House on the left and Bankfoot Dyeworks centre right. The car, perhaps being towed, has a West Riding 'U' number plate which would go for a goodly sum today. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society…
Bankfoot House and Adelaide Street on the left with Bankfoot Mill on the right, the mill was demolished in the 1970s. Beyond the trees in the centre Brown's engineering works just visible. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The houses on the left front onto Cliffe Street and above the wall on the right the roof of Stubbings School. The path is the remains of the old packhorse road between Heptonstall and Halifax from which a branch ran up to Old Town and on to Haworth.…
Arthur Comfort, born in London in 1864, became a master wood engraver. He worked for some years on "The Graphic", the National illustrated journal, and exhibited his work at the Royal Academy and abroad. Around 1900 he moved north and began work as a…
The large and magnificent Barkisland Hall loudly proclaims the middling gentry status of its builder, John Gledhill. Unique within the district in being three storeys high, it has a fully developed F-plan with a projecting porch dated 1638 and…