We have this photo dated 1961, but Jonathan Greenwood comments: “I have a copy of this print because the building in the centre used to belong to my great grandparents, Thomas (Tommy) & Harriet Louisa (Louie) Knight, who ran it as a bakery. They both…
The big warehouse under construction is the Orchard Business Park. Mytholmroyd Farm is to the left of the picture. The buildings to the top left were part of Thornber Chicks. The open ground is now (2026) the community centre.
The bridge carrying Station Road over the Rochdale Canal with Machpelah Works above. The bridge was widened in 1913/4 after many years of wrangling between successive Local Authorities and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. The extension with the…
Looking across Hebden Bridge from Fairfield, Palace House road is in the foreground with the railway station behind. Note all the trucks in the sidings. Behind the station on the far side of the field, next to the canal, the large Crossley Mill…