Work on the bridge connecting Stansfiled Road with Burnley Road to the top centre of the shot. The Abraham Ormerod health centre visible across the road.
Due to the increase in the weight of traffic many bridges had to be strengthened around this time. Hebden Bridge Council Offices are in the background.
ST. GEORGE'S BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge. was built in 1899, the cost being met by public subscription plus a grant from the West Riding County Council. The bridge had a very steep gradient, and before it was altered a chain horse was needed by loaded…
The chimney of Bridge Mill can be seen to the right of the picture. The houses on the left were pulled down and are now the site of the Council Offices.
Slide 15 - On taking our stand at the end of the bridge the ornamental stone parapets on each side forms a notable feature, and beyond it seen a fine avenue of trees on the road leading in the direction of Conisbrough.
This is Spa Bridge, Oldham Road, Rishworth where the A672 meets M62 at Windy Hill. The curved front wall of this bridge still exists though Sps Clough is now culveted not bridged.
SOYLAND MILL BRIDGE is at Dam Side over the Lumb Clough stream. It is a single-arch, undated, stone bridge. The following entries appear in the accounts for 1741 of John Normanton, the Sowerby Constable:¬
Paid Matthew Nickolson for Soyland Miln…
Undated postcard but the sender writes that "there was a railway accident here last Friday" which would have been the Charlestown Curve disaster of 21st June 1912. Another card with the same image is postmarked 17 July 1912.