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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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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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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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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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Hebden Bridge Local History Group members investigated the turnpike road at Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge. It was abandoned in 1825. It proved to be made entirely of apple sized sandstone.

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Flood prevention work at County Bridge, Mytholmroyd reveals timber foundation of the bridge built 400 years ago.

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Rochdale Gate' - the packhorse route from Hebden Bridge to Rochdale, near Lumbutts.

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Commercial Street, Hebden Bridge built 1786

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Information from Miss Olga Smith who was a pupil at the school from 1925(?) - 1932. 'Morton Wager - front row - Headmaster from 1908 to 1927. I think the man in the middle of the back row must be Hamlet Helliwell who was still Chemistry master…

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Postcard from Textile Department of Bankfield Museum.
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