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Born in Northowram, Halifax, in 1738 the Rev Dan Taylor came to Hebden Bridge and held meetings in a room at Higher Needless near the top of Wadsworth Lane. As his congregation grew larger premises were required and a Chapel on Sandy Gate was opened…

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Man with a donkey on the tow path where it inclines up to the bridge at the top of Holme Street. The river is below the wall which today is replaced by railings around the children's playground. The tow path has now been re-aligned at this point.…

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A snow covered view up the Calder Valley over Adelaide Street, Stubbing Holme and dye works and along King Street to Calderside Mill with the railway over Whiteley Arches next to it and onto Charlestown. Far right the terraced houses of Saville…

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HLS05085. Looking up Colden Clough. In the left foreground is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks and next to it Trinity Street on Stubbing Holme between the canal and the river. Above St James Parish Church and Bankfoot Mill with the Eaves Mills beyond. Date…

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HLS05081. Right of centre is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder. Above it Adelaide Street and above that Bankfoot Mill. In the centre Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and Eaves Mills. The Hall and all the…

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HLS05078. The church viewed from the 'inner lane' to Eaves. That lane passing the church is now only access to the school and Eaves Road has been cut into the hill on the right joining the 'lane' about by the end of the building on the left.

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New Road junction with Holme Street, left, and Bridge Gate, right looking towards West End. The signs on the left-hand building, below the lamp, point up Bridge Gate to Keighley and Hardcastle Crags. The policeman on point duty at the junction, a…

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Date unknown but prior to the widening of New Road in 1931 when the end shop, Z Spencer & Sons Florists, was demolished and the second shop was reconstructed at then road end, now Holts Green Grocers.

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Looking across St Georges Bridge, built 1893, to the Square and the large Co-op building with its clock tower. The building on the right on Blackwater Street was demolished to make way for the Council Offices which were built in 1897.

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Looking down Hebden Water to West End Bridge with Old Gate on the right. The building on the left, which is to the rear of Westbourne House, was converted into a dwelling in 2012 and windows added. Beyond the bridge is Central Dyeworks to which an…

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Donkey cart on Albert Street crossing Hope Street; Hope Chapel to the right. Bank doorway behind (The plate is labelled "possibly with Dan Wilcock in 1920s" but the absence of tram cables visible on New Road would date it pre1901/2) Another caption…

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Band outside the bank building at the corner of Albert Street and Hope Street, name of the bank on the windows not discernible but now Lloyds Bank (2015). Date unknown.

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Possibly the oldest photograph in the collection.

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The old inn at the bottom of the Buttress next to the Old Bridge prior to demolition and replacement in 1899 with the building we see today.

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An unusual view looking up the Calder Valley towards Calderside Mill with its tall chimney and the railway crossing Whiteley Arches. The road to the right is Burnley Road into King Street. To the left between the Calder and the Rochdale Canal are the…

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Terraced housing in the Hangingroyd area with above, top right, Nutclough Mill showing the extensions on 2 sides, and to its right Keighley Road climbing up but prior to the construction of its retaining wall. The two chimneys in the centre are R B…

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View across the town late 19th or early 20th century prior to the building of Riverside School in 1908. Bottom right is Central School following enlargement in 1895. Looking up the river beyond the second bridge the Council Offices built in 1897/8.…
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