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…
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…
The mill became notorious for asbestos related diseases amongst its workforce many of whom died from their illnesses. The mill closed and was demolished in 1979.
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (uncl). Reconstruction works at Chisley. Looking north at junction with The Avenue. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their ref: 32/3(3). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (uncl). Reconstruction works at Chisley. Looking north at junction with The Avenue. "After" photo taken 1/10/54. Their ref: 32/3(3a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (uncl). Reconstruction works at Chisley. Looking north at "Club House". "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their ref: 32/3(2). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (uncl). Reconstruction works at Chisley. Looking north at "Club House". "After" photo taken 1/10/54. Their ref: 32/3(2a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking West at junction with Estate Road. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their Ref: 32/3(6). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.…
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking West at junction with Estate Road. "After" photo taken 1/10/54. Their Ref: 32/3(6a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.…
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (Unclas), Reconstruction works at Chiserley. "After" photo taken 1/10/54. Their Ref: 32/3(4a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield. On the left the Old Town Co-op building, and the gable end of Green…
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (Unclas), Reconstruction works at Chiserley. Looking North at "Green End". "After" photo taken 1/10/54. Their Ref: 32/3(4). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield. On the left the former Old Town Co-op…
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking West at junction. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their Ref: 32/3(7). On the left is Mitchell's Mill.
Hepton R.D. Walker Lane C.R. (Unclas), Reconstruction works at Chiserley. Looking North at Methodist Church. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Although individual workers were rarely in a position to buy their own cottages, friendly societies and…
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking East. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their Ref: 32/3(5). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield. Acre Mill asbestos works is…
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking East. "After" photo taken 1/10/54 Their Ref: 32/3(5a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.
Across the centre is Acre Mill of Cape Asbestos. Known as 'The Killer Mill' after the asbestosis suffered by its workers due to breathing in asbestos dust. It closed in 1970 and was demolished in 1979 apart from the building seen down the centre of…
ALC00407. General town view c.1900. The new Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel (1899) just visible on the righthand hillside above Stubbings School but Riverside School (1908/9) being built on the land above the houses in the foreground. The Council Offices…
ALC00415. Looking across to Nursery Nook and Spring Wood Terrace at the junction of Midgehole Road and Keighley Road with Hurst Road going off diagonally left. Early 20th century pre First World War.