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.…
A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.
Looking towards West End and the junction with Holme Street and Bridge Gate. Note the Yorkshire Penny Bank. The roof line of Queens Terrace can just be seen over the roof of Timothy Whites and Taylors. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society…
Crown Street at its junction with New Road. The gardens seen here and the buildings at the end demolished when New Road was widened in the mid-1930s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The gardens seen here and the buildings at the end demolished when New Road was widened in the mid-1930s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Halifax Corporation tram in May 1911 just prior to the Hebden Urban District Council road widening improvements. Not much shelter from the elements for the driver. Commercial Street going off to the right.
Date unknown but before the building in the centre at the junction of Bridge Gate and New Road was demolished in the 1930s for road widening. Blackburn's Ironmongers is on the end of the row of shops, and the window of Alice Longstaff's shop,…
Holt's Greengrocers served Hebden Bridge and the Upper Calder Valley for generations. William Holt started the business in the late 1800s with a horse and cart. The first shop was just up from the Bank on the…
c1966, this was one of Calder Civic Trust's first projects - creating a small garden on a piece of long derelict land in the ownership of British Rail. The relic of this garden remains (2014) in front of the Catholic Church, which has replaced the…
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…