Foster Holme. Nutclough Mill has been extended on one side only. The old Birchcliffe Chapel is in the centre towards the top of the picture, with High Hurst behind it.
From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900. This picture shows a very new looking Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, it opened in 1898. PH86.
Bottom of Birchcliffe Road c1947. The buildings to the left of the picture were later pulled down to enable the road junction with the Keighley Road to be widened.
Looking down from above Heptonstall Road. Lower right are the terraced houses off Hangingroyd Lane with the housing on Birchcliffe hillside above. Almost in the centre is part of Hangingroyd Mill and diagonally above it Hebden Works and Nutclough…
Looking down from above Heptonstall Road. Lower right terraced houses off Hangingroyd Lane with housing on Birchcliffe Hillside above. Almost in the centre ia part of Hangingroyd Mill and diagonally above it Hebden Works and Nutclough Mill. Centre…
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…
Lower left Foster Mill with Hangingroyd Mill, Hebden Works and Nutclough Mill and Hebden Water in the centre. Top left the old Bircliffe Chapel with Birchcliffe Road/Wadsworth Lane climbing the hillside.
More or less in the centre the 'new' Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel in course of construction with the old Chapel above it to the left. Lower centre Nutclough Mill with part of Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works below.
Bottom right of centre is Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works with Nutclough Mill before it was extended to the left. Above and top centre is the old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel.
The New Birchcliffe Chapel is being built, the roof is not yet on. The old Birchcliffe chapel can be seen on the hillside beyond. In town the big mill in the centre is Nutclough Mill, clearly showing that the mill has been considerably enlarged over…
The first General Baptist's meetings were held in a house on Wadsworth Lane but requiring bigger premises the congregation built the first Birchcliffe Chapel in 1764 on Sandy Gate.
This was re-built and enlarged in 1825 and then replaced in 1898 by…
Date unknown but probably late 1940s/early 1950s as the first steel pre-fabricated houses at Dodnaze on Wadsworth Lane can be seen. Central Street and Riverside Schools feature prominently