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Hebden Bridge - Victoria Bridge. - HLS05025
Victoria Bridge carries Station Road over the Calder; it was built in 1855 replacing a timber trestle bridge built for the station in 1839/40. The weir was to direct water to the wheelhouse for Mayroyd Mill. Just visible in the background Queens…
Hebden Bridge - View up the Calder Valley from Eaves Wood.. - HLS05095
A snow covered view up the Calder Valley over Adelaide Street, Stubbing Holme and dye works and along King Street to Calderside Mill with the railway over Whiteley Arches next to it and onto Charlestown. Far right the terraced houses of Saville…
Hebden Bridge - West End and Bridge Gate 1855/6 - HLS05073
West End at the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Chambers shop on the right later becomes Blackburn Ironmongers and Greaves Draper and Hosiery was later Z Spence florist who later moved to the corner of New Road and Crown…
Hebden Bridge - West End and Bridge Gate 1855/6 - HLS05074
West End at the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Chambers shop on the right later becomes Blackburn Ironmongers and Greaves Draper and Hosiery was later Z Spence florist who later moved to the corner of New Road and Crown…
Hebden Bridge - West End Bridge - HLS05069
Looking down Hebden Water to West End Bridge with Old Gate on the right. The building on the left, which is to the rear of Westbourne House, was converted into a dwelling in 2012 and windows added. Beyond the bridge is Central Dyeworks to which an…
Hebden Bridge - Whiteley Arches, Charlestown. - HLS05092
HLS05092. Constructed by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and named after the Whitleys whose Calderside Mill was adjacent. When built the bow string bridge over the Rochdale Canal along with that at Gauxholme were about the first such bridges…
Hebden Bridge - Whitley Arches, Charlestown. - HLS05091
HLS05091. Constructed by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and named after the Whitleys whose Calderside Mill was adjacent. When built the bow string bridge over the Rochdale Canal along with that at Gauxholme were about the first such bridges…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05096
HLS05096. Working a band knife at Nutclough Mill c.1890. The machinists behind working treadle sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05097
HLS05097. Band knife cutters. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy fustians such as moleskins for heavy work wear but in…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05098
Cutting room pre- First World War with sewing machinists in the background with treadle Singer sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05101
Sewing machinists at Nutclough Mill c.1910 with treadle Singer sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05104
HLS05104. Finishers and special cutters in a Clothing Shop pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05107
HLS05107. Wholesale Clothing Shop warehouse pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy fustians such as…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade. - HLS05100
HLS05100. Sewing machinists at treadle sewing machines in a large Machine Room pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade. - HLS05102
Sewing machinists in a large Machine Room working on sewing machines pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade. - HLS05103
HLS05103. Button sewing machinists in a Machine Room with treadle Singer sewing machines pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade. - HLS05105
HLS05105. Cutters and hand sewers pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy fustians such as moleskins…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade. - HLS05106
Hand finishing in a Sewing Shop pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy or other heavy fustians such as moleskins for…
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - HLS05035
Date unknown but seemingly prior to the building of the Council offices in 1897/8 but after the enlargement of the impressive Co-op building with its clock tower in 1889, seen here behind Hope Baptist Chapel.
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield about 1885 - HLS05038
General view up Hebden Dale. Top left Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel, opened 1840, and centre right dominating the vista is Foster Mill and in the far right is Crossley mill.
Hebden Bridge from Horsehold Road c.1885. - HLS05028
This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
Hebden Bridge from the Heptonstall Hillside. 1881 - HLS05033
General view down the valley with left centre the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
Hebden Bridge from the Heptonstall Hillside. 1881. - HLS05032
General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
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