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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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Date unknown but prior to the widening of New Road in 1931 when the end shop, Z Spencer & Sons Florists, was demolished and the second shop was reconstructed at then road end, now Holts Green Grocers.

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The building in the centre of the picture is the rear of Nickies cafe. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Looking along to the junction with New Road and Holme Street. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The large building in the centre of the picture, beyond the shops, is Salem Methodist Church. The building far right is Brecks Mill. Salem was replaced by the present Methodist Churci in the mid-1970s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society…

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Buildings on the north side of Bridge Lanes and High Street in course of demolition in 1964. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Buildings on the north side of Bridge Lanes and High Street in course of demolition in 1964. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Buildings on the north side of Bridge Lanes and High Street ready for demolition in 1964. In the foreground Calder Mill destroyed by fire in November 1964. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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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 sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Outrageously presumptuous by today

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Broadbottom, a cluster of houses rather than a single homestead is an ancient settlement on the Wadsworth side of Calder Valley, on the edge of the wood…

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This sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

“One of the beautiful halls of Ovenden Wood, overlooking the Wheatley Valley from the Mount Tabor side. It derives its name from the Broadley or…

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Original drawing by Alan D. Jones, published by Halifax Courier.

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Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Outside Burnley Road School, Mytholmroyd looking east, before reconstruction. Photo dated 28/4/52.

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Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Outside Burnley Road School, Mytholmroyd looking east, after reconstruction.

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Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Junction of Burnley Road with Station Road, Hebden Bridge. Photo dated 28/4/52. Below the arm pointing to the station the former Gas Works at…

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At the bottom of the buttress, opposite the Hole-in-the-Wall pub, Buttress Brink was a warren of dwellings demolished in the 1960s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The Hole in the Wall is on the right, and Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel can be seen towards the top of the picture. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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A warren of tenements at the bottom of the Buttress opposite the Hole-in-the-Wall pub they were demolished in the 1960s as unfit for human habitation.
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