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Jack Bridge Mill, in the Colden Valley - ALC00787
Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Jack Bridge Mill, Colden - ALC00820
Postcard, published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. Colden School is on the left hand side. The row of cottages in the foreground on the right are called High Street. Towards the left at the top of the picture is Highgate Chapel.
View over Colden, Jack Bridge Mill - ALC00838
An early steam powered mill, built in 1861 by Colden Cotton & Commercial Company Limited, was the last to be built in the Colden Valley. It was demolished in the 1970s following a fire. Colden School can be seen left of centre. On the very left of…
Looking down Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall - ALC00895
Looking down Smithwell Lane towards Towngate after the sets (cobbles) had been covered with tarmacadam in the 1960s.
Riverside School, Hebden Bridge - ALC03450
Victorian games in the playground.
Heptonstall Board School, 1899 - ALC04785
Ref: AT503
Calder High School, Mytholmroyd - ALC05119
The school opened in 1950 and was the first comprehensive school in the West Riding.
General view of Mytholmroyd - ALC05125
In the foreground is the Moderna factory and above on the right Calder High School which had opened in 1950. The new housing estate of pre-fabricated Airey houses to the left of centre in the photo is the extension to the area known as Banksfields…
Todmorden Secondary School, Ferney Lee Road - ALC05137
The building was originally Todmorden Grammar, which brought us two Nobel Prize winners. In the late sixties or early seventies, Scaitcliffe School on the opposite side the Burnley Road was opened as a Secondary Modern School. Later the grammar…
Jack Bridge Mill - ALC05167
In the 1960's before Moderna Blankets a company called D.E.Stuttard Ltd made oil fired boilers called 'Desomatic'. R Thomas 01422 846392 as a brass plate which was attached to the boilers. Ref: 037.
Jack Bridge Mill 1910 - ALC05168
In the foreground is Colden Water, the houses top right are Lower Smithy. Colden school is to the right of the mill chimney
Stubbings Landslide, 1903 - ALC05179
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.
Central Board School, Hebden Bridge, 1900 - ALC05181
Central Board School was the second Board School in Hebden Bridge. (Stubbings, 1878 was the first), and was opened in July 1884 as the Todmorden United District Hebden Bridge Central Board School. Originally it was a one—storey building and the…
View over Hebden Bridge, c1910. - ALC06003
Looking over Valley Road to the Stubbings hillside.
Hebden Bridge Grammar School, Class 3A - ALC06365
An article in the Hebden Bridge times of 29th November 1996 gave the following identification: back row, left to right: Geoffrey Greenwood, Peter
Rushworth, Roland Greenwood, Geoffrey Peter Naylor (who lives in Manchester), Norman H. Wilcock (now of…
Rushworth, Roland Greenwood, Geoffrey Peter Naylor (who lives in Manchester), Norman H. Wilcock (now of…
Black Pit Lock, Hebden Bridge - JET00117
Work on the Rochdale Canal prior to its re-opening for navigation.
Vale School Play - MCR00112
"A Midsummer Night's Dream". Mabel Ormerod, Janet Mallison, Vera Hirst, Alice Dawson.
Cornholme Board School c. 1922 - MCR00118
Teachers: Mr J. Briggs and Miss Townsend
Back row - L to R
Lilian Crabtree, Florence Thomas, Vera Hirst, ? , Alice Dawson, Violetta Greenlees, Rebecca Holden?, Elizabeth Higgin, Alice Greenlees, Millie Jowett (next to Mr. Briggs)
Between…
Back row - L to R
Lilian Crabtree, Florence Thomas, Vera Hirst, ? , Alice Dawson, Violetta Greenlees, Rebecca Holden?, Elizabeth Higgin, Alice Greenlees, Millie Jowett (next to Mr. Briggs)
Between…
Cornholme Board School - MCR00127
Taken after 1916 and before 1923. A lot of these pupils came from Robinwood. Sitting front left is Alice Crowther.
