View from the bottom of School Street over Lees Yard and down Crown Street.
Mick Shepley believes the girl in the picture may well be his now wife, when she was about 13/14 in 1970. Her name then was Margaret (Maggie) Calver and she lived at 10…
ALC00350. Looking towards West End. Timothy Whites was taken over by Boots in 1968 and most stores closed and in 1976 the one seen here became the Tourist Information Centre and is now AJs Fish & Chips. Next to it is the Yorkshire Bank, now…
The junction of Crown Street and New Road. Spencer's building on the left was demolished and the gardens also removed when New Road was widened in the 1930s. The opening on the right is now Holt's yard.
Flower gardens fronted the busy Burnley Road before the road was widened in 1931, which necessitated the demolition of the building on the left fronting onto Bridge Gate; it was replaced with a shop on the truncated corner, now Holt’s greengrocers.…
Shop on the corner of St George's Square and Crown Street.
Originally built by Hebden Bridge Co-operative Society with the water tank above to also serve the main retail and social facilities on the other side of Crown Street. The water tank has…
In the latter part of the 19th Century the Liberals bought a plot of land between Carlton Street and Cheetham Street in Hebden Bridge for £1,400. They then sold half of it to the Co-operative Society for £1,350 and built the Liberal Club on the…
The former Hebden Bridge Co-Operative Society central building. It opened in 1876 and was extended, including the clock tower, a few years later. The Co-op closed in the late 1960s and the ground floor sold off as shops and the upper floors became…