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The weaving shed with its north lights roof and Hebden Water taken from Nutclough Mill. Victoria Road top centre going off to the left; top left part of Hangingroyd Mill, long demolished, and the single storey building in front of it is now the…

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View over the town from the Buttress with Buttress Brink tenements on the right, demolished 1967/8.

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From Old Gate looking at the back of Bridge Gate. All the buildings seen here on the river bank have been demolished to make way for the riverside path and Bridge Gate car park.

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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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Looking across from the Buttress to Nutclough Mill and chimney.

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. The view here if of one of the maze of landings in the block accessed by external steps and alleys.

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here probably after they had been evacuated for demolition looking up the Buttress from Old Bridge. Royd Terrace in the centre and the…

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The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid-1960s as unfit for human habitation. Seen here probably not long before demolition from Hangingroyd Lane looking up the Buttress with Royd Terrace on the right.

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Top of the '100 Steps' coming up from Commercial Street to the bottom of Marlborough Road.

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Above the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on Stubbing Holme.

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Taken from the Old Bridge looking towards the Birchcliffe hillside with Bridge Gate is in the foreground. The building with the corrugated roof was for many years Albert Fielden's bookies shop whilst on Bridge Gate the building with the shutters at…

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Rear of the 'top and bottom' terraced houses on Bridge Lanes with the River Calder on the left.

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On the left is Croft Mill with its chimney and behind the chimney is Zion Particular Baptist Chapel. Running down the centre of the photo are the 100 Steps from Marlborough Road to Commercial Street. The houses on the right are the rear of Crossley…

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At the far end is Breck Mill originally occupied by Sowerby Bridge Flour Society. The mill burnt down as the result of the fire, believed to have been stared deliberately, in 1971. The upper floors of the buildings on the left were demolished after a…

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Taken from the Old Bridge looking up to the Buttress with Royd Terrace on the right. The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid 1960s as unfit for human habitation.

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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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Flood in Market Street, Hebden Bridge, possibly 1946

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Flood in Market Street, Hebden Bridge, possibly 1946

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Is this Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd?

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Looking down the road in the Mytholmroyd direction. The newspaper bill boards are mentioning the total eclipse which took place 27th June 1927. The tram lines were lifted mid-1930s.

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A steam vehicle on Burnley Road passing tennis court and bowling green on Tillotson Holme and above long lines of railway goods wagons in the Station Goods Yard, closed 1962. St Mary's Church with its 126ft spire, demolished 1980, on the hillside

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Looking along Burnley Road in the Halifax direction. The Halifax Corporation trams were withdrawn in the mid-1930s and all the buildings seen here on the left were demolished probably late 1970s.

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The church opened Good Friday 1859 with the lower part used as a school for mill workers. The church has closed and the building converted into dwellings.

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Undated postcard. The building in the centre with name boards is the Sportsman Inn, now a private house, on Cragg Road. Below the building on the right is the road dropping down to St John's Church and the Hinchliffe Arms.
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