Hebden Royd Urban District. Estimates 1951-52. Unclassified County Road, towards Hebden Bridge. Reconstruction at Towngate, Heptonstall. After improvement.
The building on the right was the Heptonstall Co-operative Industrial Society - built on the site of 7 former cottages on Church Street. The Co-op was established in 1860, in rented premises and moved into a new shop in 1866. Note the glass structure…
Hebden Royd Urban District. Estimates 1951-52. Unclassified County Road, towards Hebden Bridge. Reconstruction at Towngate, Heptonstall. After improvement.
The old church at Heptonstall was dedicated to God and St Thomas a Becket – Thomas a Becket being in great popularity after his murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 and his canonisation three years later. There may have been a structure in the…