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Heptonstall Church - DEF00112
This picture was taken as part of Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, to draw attention to squalid places and litter detracting from attractions of the area, such as Heptonstall Church shown here. The aim was to bring it to wider attention and shame…
The Methodist Chapel at Blackshaw Head - DEF00104
Taken in 1976 by a Manchester Polytechnic photographer as part of a research project on the area.
Luddendenfoot Congregational Chapel, Burnley Road. - WAO00245
The church opened Good Friday 1859 with the lower part used as a school for mill workers. The church has closed and the building converted into dwellings.
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00233
Postcard with 1917 postmark. This church, built in 1838 to replace a smaller church constructed in 1813, was paid for from the 'million pound fund'. An Act of Parliament allocated £1 million to build churches in the rapidly expanding industrial areas…
Cragg Vale, near Mytholmroyd - WAO00227
Looking down Cragg Road towards Mytholmroyd. The Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is on the left.
Hebden Bridge and Birchcliffe Hillside. - WAO00207
Undated postcard. Hangingroyd housing can be seen bottom left with Old Town top left. Old Birchcliffe Chapel is towards the top right with the new 1898 Chapel below it. Demolition appears to be taking place at the old Birchcliffe Chapel, the stone…
Mytholmroyd - WAO00181
Undated postcard showing the Church Institute Bowling Green 22 July 1911. Behind is St Michael's Church.
Clegg Nook, Mytholmroyd, c1950 - WAO00155
Undated postcard. Bottom centre is Scout Road leading to its junction with Cragg Road. Bottom left are the railings of the Weslyan Chapel. Running above the top of the buildings is the railway viaduct.
Mytholmroyd Looking North from Daisy Bank. - WAO00149
Postcard with August 1913 postmark. A long, westbound passenger train is passing Mytholmroyd station.
The Old Vicarage, Mytholmroyd - WAO00143
Undated postcard. The Vicarage at Mytholmroyd, situated on Cragg Road. The house is still there but no longer a vicarage. The field with the horse in it is now where a row of red brick houses stands- they are known locally as Blackpool houses…
Mytholmroyd c.1900. - WAO00133
Across the lower part of the photo are Mytholmroyd Station and Goods Shed with the structures on the Manchester 'up' line supported on stilts and the platforms extending over the viaduct. In the centre of this photo can be seen St Michael’s Church…
Mytholmroyd Scenes - WAO00124
Poatcard with1931 postmark. Top left a tram on Burnley Road, they were withdrawn in 1936. Top right Dauber Bridge on Cragg Road and bottom right Hawksclough and bridge over the River Calder.
St Michael's Church Gates, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00119
Postcard with 1906 postmark.
St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00118
Undated postcard. Looking down the River Calder from Caldene Bridge. The roof of the Sunday school building over the bridge has since been lowered.
St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00116
Undated postcard. Taken outside St Michael's Sunday School. A note on the reverse gives the Vicar as Thomas Metcalfe and John Willie Fielding centre front and on the right hand side Elsie Hargreaves.
St Michael's Church and Graveyard, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00112
Postcard with possible 1909 postmark. The foundation stone for the Church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively…
St Michael's Church and Graveyard, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00111
Post card with 1917 postmark. The foundation stone for the church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a…
St Michael's Church and Graveyard, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00110
Undated postcard. The Church foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small octagonal…
St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00109
Undated postcard showing an 1849 engraving of the church. The foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. Enlarged in 1887, the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small…
Mytholmroyd Townscape - WAO00105
Between the wars postcard. Diagonally to the left of St Michael's Church is the rear of the railway station with the overhanging timber buildings on the 'up' platform supported on stilts.
Mytholmroyd Scenes - WAO00101
Postcard with postmark 25 August 1909.
Looking Down on Mytholm - EIL00300
Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall churches can be seen here, also Eaves Mill, Mytholm Hall and Hell Hole rocks
Fundraising in Weaver's Square, Heptonstall - EIL00162
Ladies of Heptonstall Methodist Chapel at a village fete in Weavers Square, at a stall with a nautical theme. L to R: Vera Ingham, Marian Greenwood, Eileen Longbottom, Margaret Harwood, Dorothy Smith, Emma Longbottom.
Heptonstall Methodist Church - EIL00159
The church is decorated but only with flowers, so what was the event?
Bible Tableau, Hope Baptist Church, 1965 - EIL00155
Scenes from the Bible, organised by Mothers of Salem, the ladies of the church. Information provided by Helen Ranton, nee Waterworth, who is the little girl in the centre of the front row. Also included are Doris Horner, Philip and Gwen Shackleton,…