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Looking down the Buttress, Hebden Bridge - ALC05094
Buttress Brink is on the right with the Hole in the Wall beyond. Probably taken just before demolition of Buttress Brink started in the 1960s.
The Old Bridge, Hebden Bridge - ALC04598
On the right the Hole-in-theWall pub and on the left the tenements of Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s.
Carriages outside The Old White Lion Hotel, 1907 - ALC01453
From Mrs Carol Mosley (nee Astin). Some detail as to the people shown in the photographs might be useful. The four people seated in the 'landau' are my great grandparents on my father's side. On the left are John Astin (then a fustian manufacturer in…
Towngate, Heptonstall c1900 - ALC01412
This is Towngate, Heptonstall around 1900.
Group walking down Birchcliffe Road - ALC01391
These people have possibly just attended the Memorial Service for the death of Edward VII at Birchcliffe Chapel, Hebden Bridge
Top o'th Town, Heptonstall c1900 - ALC00890
The shop on the right was both grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The boy is Charles Taylor.
In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.
The photo…
The Royal Electric Theatre, Hebden Bridge - ALC00882
The Royal Electric Theatre' on New Road opened in 1913 on what is now the Memorial Gardens. It ceased as a cinema June 24th 1921 when the present day Picture House opened.
Regent House, New Road, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00854
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.…
Market Street/West End, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00699
The building on the corner of Market Street and Old Gate, pictured here as Jackson Merchant Taylor, ended its days as 'Nicky's Cafe'. In 1910 the street was gas light. Beyond is Bridge Gate Mill.
Fallingroyd Bridge, near Hebden Bridge - ALC00698
Alice Longstaff is standing on the bridge, the clog factory is in the background.
Todmorden Fire Brigade, at Mytholmroyd - ALC00600
Taken at Pall Mall, now a car park. Watson's mill on the left, now Russell Dean's furniture shop. Postcard.
Todmorden Viaduct. - ALC00459
Viaduct over Burnley Road and market early 20th century. .
Heptonstall 'Top o' th' Town' - ALC00420
The people of Heptonstall depended for their water on four pumps. Here 'Top o' th' Town' pump is shown locked up, which usually happened on Saturday night, and it remained locked until Monday morning. A careful housewife would fill her setpot on…
Hebden Bridge - Savile Road - ALC00387
1960s demolition of the corner of Savile Road on King Street. St James Church just visible in the centre.
Hebden Bridge - High Street - ALC00377
High Street but not as in Main Street but as in 'high'. It ran parallel to Bridge Lanes below Heptonstall Road and was demolished at the same time as Bridge Lanes in 1963/4.
Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe Road - ALC00370
The bottom of Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street before Commercial Street was re-aligned in 1959 to carry straight on up Keighley Road; the buildings on the left were demolished at that time. The buildings on the right still…
Hebden Bridge - White Horse Hotel - ALC00368
The White Horse Hotel was an inn at least since 1851, it closed 1960, and on the Monday afternoon of 26th November, 1962, demolition workers were sending the walls of the White Horse Hotel crashing to the ground. A few hours later, across the street…
Hebden Bridge - St Georges Square - ALC00364
From the Square looking up to Keighley Road; on the left Bridge Mill, used by Chorlton Bros., Wholesale Clothiers, and beyond that the White Lion and opposite it the junction of Bridge Gate with Commercial Street before it was re-aligned 1964/65 to…
Hebden Bridge - Buttress Brink - ALC00361
c.1890. The 'old' Hole in the Wall and Buttress Brink, a warren of dwellings, demolished 1960s.
Hebden Bridge - The Old Bridge - ALC00360
The Old Bridge originally built 1510 and repaired in 1602 and 1657 when it was described "in great ruin and decay". Seen here in about 1900 looking over to Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s, with the new 'Hole in the Wall' pub on the right.
Hebden Bridge - New Road - ALC00349
About 1960 but a slushy New Road is still cobbled. Holts building originally jutted further out and the other buildings had gardens but all removed to widen the pavement.
Hebden Bridge - Tram Terminus - ALC00348
The tram terminus on New Road, near the junction with Holme Street, left, and Bridge Gate, right looking towards West End. The white sign on the right-hand building points to C Westerman, Photographer, on West End and the signs on the left-hand…