Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm…
Hebden Bridge Air Training Corps football team: back row, left to right, P. Tetlow, John Ingham. Harry Cocker and Charlie Blaylock. The officer in the middle is Harry Herdman. Middle row, l to r, John Hutchinson (officer), Eric Wilkinson, John Astin…
Back row L-R John Langan, Roy Patrick, David Greatorex, Seth Marney, Unknown, ? Webster, Geoff Woodhead.
Front row L- R Denis Rapier, Nick Helliwell, Unknown, Unknown, Bernard Ingram,
Seated: John ?
Probably a Mytholmroyd Team. Back row L - R: Unknown, John Langan, unknown, Seth Marney, Bernard Ingham, Alan Wild, Derek Elwood, unknown. Seated: unknown, John Stansfield., Laurie Patrick, unknown, Donald Sheard.
Seated in the centre behind the rose bowl is Fred Southwell. In the 1890s Fred lived at Hebble End with his parents and siblings. He moved to Garnet Street then later to Eaves and ended up on Erringden Road at Mytholmroyd.
The Cross Lanes Society was formed from two Methodist groups from Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall. They decided to join together and build a new chapel at a half way site. The land cost £289 4s 0d in 1838?. Plans by Mr John Nicholson were accepted. …
St Georges Square, left, and Bridge Gate right. The shop was Elton Jowett's tobacconist shop, his house was next door, and the shop on the corner behind the van was the Economic Stores. The wooden hut on Bridge Gate was Ma Jones'.
Albert Street looking down to Crossley Mill on New Road, with the Albert Hotel on the right and Croft Mill on the left. The floods of 1946 were generally regarded as the worst of the 20th century. Albert Street, Hebden Bridge, was among the areas…