At the time of this photograph it was being used as a storage building for Fred Temperley & Sons Ltd - Salt Glazed Stoneware Pipes and Fittings. Just up the road at Saunderclough Works. It is now a private dwelling.
On the left the 'Hole in the Wall' pub with the buildings of Buttress Brink demolished mid-1960s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
A regular truck stop for hungry lorry drivers, much the same as modern day service areas on our motorways. Standing outside the doorway of the Bird i'th Hand inn is a Leyland very similar to the one owned and used by the LMS Railway at Todmorden…
The man in the photo is the Landlord. His name is Lummas Lumb. Former Landlord of Royal Oak, Mytholmroyd. Great-Grandfather of Max Sunderland. The lady may be Lummas's daughter, Ethel ,who would have been living there too.