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Hebden Bridge looking over to the Birchcliffe hillside. Lower centre are the huge retaining walls supporting Keighley Road and Birchcliffe Road which were cut into the hillside early 19th century when the turnpike from Hebden Bridge to Lees was…

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Birchcliffe Tennis Club

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The chapel had opened in 1825 but was replaced by the larger chapel lower down Birchcliffe Road in 1898, now the Birchcliffe Centre.

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The first General Baptist's meetings were held in a house on Wadsworth Lane but requiring bigger premises the congregation built the first Birchcliffe Chapel in 1764 on Sandy Gate.

This was re-built and enlarged in 1825 and then replaced in 1898 by…

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L to R: David Fletcher; Carol South; Margaret (Meg) Phipps; Mary Hurst; Sandra Lomas; Hilary Darby; Christine Booth; ?

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Footpath up from behind the former Birchcliffe Manse. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Service at Birchcliffe Chapel to commemorate Edward VII, who died 6th May, 1910.

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Top of the '100 Steps' coming up from Commercial Street to the bottom of Marlborough Road.

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The wall at the bottom of Keighley Road bearing a poster dated 1903. Behind you can just see Stubbings School which was opened in 1878.

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Now the home of Pennine Heritage Limited.

Purchased in 1978 with assistance from the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust (JRSST) to save it from demolition, the building was converted in 1979 to the Pennine Heritage HQ and low cost office space for…

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The new and old Birchcliffe chapels can be seen. Towards the bottom left is Nutclough Mill.

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More or less in the centre the 'new' Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel in course of construction with the old Chapel above it to the left. Lower centre Nutclough Mill with part of Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works below.

Hebden Bridge's famous…

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The Birchcliffe Hillside, Hebden Bridge, c1920

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The old Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel. Some of the stone was later used to build a Sunday School located behind the 'new' chapel which opened in 1898.

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The white building on the left has been demolished and has been replaced by a courtyard area.

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The white building on the left has been demolished and has been replaced by a courtyard area.

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Mount Zion Chapel and Stubbings School can be seen on the hillside with the Hole in the Wall public house at the foot of The Buttress, and the Council Offices (now the Town Hall) on the left.

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General view over Woodend, Nutclough and Birchcliffe. View over Hebden Bridge with Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel on the right and above them Nutclough Mill. On the far hillside is the old Birchcliffe Chapel. Heptonstall Road is on the left.
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