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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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

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This photograph is taken from stepping stones half way up the valley side, and the view today (2000) is almost identical. Photo taken in Callis Wood, Erringden by Thomas Morgan. Ref: 005 Morgan Lit & Sci.

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The big chimney is Thornber's, when it was demolished it was taken down brick by brick.

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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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The Nook, Nest Lane, Mytholmroyd, 1980. Formerly the home of Ben Stansfield who collaborated with Edgar Thornber in setting up the appliance side of Thornber Bros. Ltd. Ref: 007GreenKC Lit & Sci.

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They moved into the newly built Fallingroyd House, Hebden Bridge, with their two sons in 1873.

Daniel and Hannah were both born in 1824. A descendant of these two people, Mrs Duly, sent the photograph to Diana Monahan. The family believed the…

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Showing the rear of the 'up' Manchester Platform across the viaduct. The platforms not only extended across the viaduct but overhung it supported by massive brackets as seen here. This was not without incident and on more than one occasion flags and…

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The plan was drawn in relation to litigation over water rights on the Birchcliffe hillside late circa 1775.

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The plaque was located in the memorial gardens, Hebden Bridge.

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The mill became notorious for asbestos related diseases amongst its workforce many of whom died from their illnesses. The mill closed and was demolished in 1979.

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Looking up the valley with the chimney of Calderside Mill next to Whiteley Arches top centre. On the left houses on Stubbing Holme under construction and to their right Stubbing Holme Dyeworks.

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The old church dedicated to St Thomas a Becket was damaged by a gale in 1847 and replaced by a new church on the same site dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle. Much of the stone and roof was subsequently pillaged but its ruins remain.

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St Thomas' RC Church and Fairfield in the background.

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This eye-catching monument on the Pennine Way stands 1,310 feet above sea level and some 120 feet high on the crest of a windswept hill. It was erected to commemorate the surrender of Paris to the Allied Armies in March 1814: during the Napoleonic…

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The Parish Church but at Mytholm, well out of the town centre.

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The Grade II listed house dates from about 1640.

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Grave of Rev N. Daniel Towne, Vicar of Heptonstall for 44 years, died 1712.
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