The trowel used by Mrs Joseph Thomas for the occasion of the ceremonial laying of the first foundation stone for the Birchcliffe New Baptist Chapel, 3rd July 1897.
The key is believed to have been used for the ceremonial opening of the…
The trowel used by Mrs Joseph Thomas for the occasion of the ceremonial laying of the first foundation stone for the Birchcliffe New Baptist Chapel, 3rd July 1897.
Top left the former Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel and Sunday School. To the right housing developed in the 1890s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
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.
Tennis was one of the many sports and activities which were a popular feature of Birchcliffe Baptist Church. The only clues to the date and setting of this photo are an address at Wood End, Hebden Bridge, and the signature of Herbert Greenwood on the…
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.
In the centre Nutclough Mill and above it the old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel and Sunday School. Centre right Birchcliffe Road sweeps up and round. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
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.
Nutclough Mill in the foreground, Yorkshire Water Board excavations behind Dodnaze estate, and the Birchcliffe Centre to the right of the centre of the picture.