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  • Collection: W. Shepherd collection

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Possibly the part of the disused Hangingroyd Mill at the top of Valley Road.

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A famous photo of the station area about 1900. Bottom right the Municipal Gas Works at Crow Nest, above it Mayroyd Mill and then the five storey Victoria Mill with the small station dwarfed by it and the large station warehouse on the other side.…

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Town view from beside Zion Chapel on Osborne Street with in the foreground buildings on Union Street and below that houses on both sides of Commercial Street, demolished mid-1960s. On the left near the top is Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road

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Top centre Stubbings School then dropping down to the White Lion Yard and Shepherd's Garage.

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Looking across from Union Street on the Birchcliffe Hillside to terraces off Palace House Road along with the abattoir. In the centre Croft Mill and chimney.

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Looking upstream from West End Bridge with Old Gate on the left and on the right the rear of now demolished buildings on Bridge Gate. Above these is St John's Church now replaced by housing. Only the cottages in the centre on the left have been…

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Viewed from West End Bridge looking upstream towards the Old Bridge. All the buildings on the right-hand river bank have now gone making way for the riverside path and car park on Bridge Gate.

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The gable end immediately behind the horse is Middle Nook.

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The 'new' Victorian Church on the left and the tower of the ruined medieval church to the right. The buildings on the left are old people's flats.

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The 'new' Victorian Church is on the left and the tower of the ruined medieval church to the right.

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Looking towards Heptonstall from Nook Lane

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The houses on the right are Cliffe Royd and to their left terraced houses on Blenheim Street. Heptonstall Road climbing up to the village.

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Probably taken from Nook Lane looking over Lane Ends Lane and Ibbotroyd Clough.

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Taken from the top of the tower of the new church. This old medieval church was replaced by the new church in the same churchyard in the 1850s.

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An engraving before the old medieval church dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett was replaced by a new church, unusually in the same churchyard, dedicated in a more protestant tradition to St Thomas the Apostle.

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Looking down from Sandy Gate over Ibbotroyd Clough to houses on Heptonstall Road with Hebden Bridge itself largely out of sight in the valley bottom. In the centre of the photo is the landmark chimney of Calder Mill and to its left Horsehold Road…

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The mill behind Hangingroyd Lane is now known as the Artsmill founded in 2003. Originally it was a purpose built clothing factory, c.1905, producing ready made fustian garments, that is heavy cotton workware such as corduroys and moleskins for which…

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The Rochdale Canal and towpath prior to restoration in the mid-1980s with Machpelah on the left and Princes Bridge on Station Road.
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