Burnley and District Sunday School League Charity Cup Winners.
Back row - Will Greenwood, Billy Coulton, Stephen Crowther, Gordon Whitehead (trainer), Geoffrey Newham (goalie), Stanley Coulton, Peter Brownbridge, Joseph Jackson (Reserve?).
Tennis was one of the many sports and activities which were a popular feature of Birchcliffe Baptist Church. The only clues to the date and setting of this photo are an address at Wood End, Hebden Bridge, and the signature of Herbert Greenwood on the…
In the bottom the Manchester & Leeds Railway which has just crossed Whiteley Arches. Above Oakville Road coming down to King Street. Savile bowling green can be seen at the top of the picture. Just below the centre is the electricity sub-station.…
Bowling green and pavilion and above the trees the gable end of the large Station Warehouse demolished following a fire in 1969. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
A steam vehicle on Burnley Road passing tennis court and bowling green on Tillotson Holme and above long lines of railway goods wagons in the Station Goods Yard, closed 1962. St Mary's Church with its 126ft spire, demolished 1980, on the hillside
A good view of the cricket field with the railway line and Rochdale Canal to the left of the picture. The complex of buildings to the eft of the road is Gordon Rigg's Garden Centre.