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Top centre Stubbings School then dropping down to the White Lion Yard and Shepherd's Garage.

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Centre left the Shoulder of Mutton with to its right Bridge Mill and chimney and to the right of that the Council Offices now re-named the Town Hall.

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Looking up Hebden Water to Nutclough Mill top right. Keighley Road is supported above the river by a huge retaining wall at this point. When constructed as the Lees & Hebden Bridge Turnpike in about 1815 it was built on a shelf cut out of the cliff.

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The market has since been moved to a new site on Lees Yard.

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Looking acros an industrial scene to the Birchcliffe hillside. Behind the trees on the left is Foster Mill and below the terraced houses on the hillside is Nutclough Mill and below that Hangingroyd Mill.

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Looking down Hebden Water to first St Georges Bridge and then the Old Bridge. On the left the huge retaining wall supporting Keighley Road which at this point is on a ledge cut out of the cliff side. The buildings on the right-hand river bank have…

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Town view from beside Zion Chapel on Osborne Street with in the foreground buildings on Union Street and below that houses on both sides of Commercial Street, demolished mid-1960s. On the left near the top is Hope Baptist Chapel on New Road

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Partly hidden by the tree on the left is the main building of Foster Mill and then partly hidden by the tree on the right is Hangingroyd Mill and above it Nutclough Mill, the only one to remain.

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Dropping down from Birchcliffe Road behind Cliffe Street it is the remains of the old packhorse route from Heptonstall to both Halifax and Haworth. Originally it dropped steeply straight down to the Old Bridge passing right in front of the White…

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In the centre Lees Yard Car Park originally the site of the White Horse Hotel, which was demolished 1962. More or less in the centre the Town Hall with Bridge Mill and chimney to its right and to the left of the Town Hall the Hole-in-the-Wall and…

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Far right part of The -hole-in-the-Wall pub, the building in the centre on Hangingroyd Lane has long gone.

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Built by the Hebden Bridge Fustian Manufacturing Society a commercially successful co-operative. It was taken over by the Co-operative Wholesale Society after the First World War. Production of fustians ceased in the 1960s. Today it is once again…

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Looking down on the town with the landmark chimney of Calder Mill on the right, the mill itself was gutted by fire in November 1964. Heptonstall Road climbing the hillside in the centre but below it housing on High Street and on the north side of…

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View over the town from the Chapel Graveyard at the top of the Buttress. The Chapel closed in 1958 and was destroyed by fire in the mid-1960s. The debris here could be following demolition.

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To its left Bridge Mill and chimney and left of that the Shoulder of Mutton.

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In the centre Lees Yard Car Park originally the site of the White Horse Hotel, demolished 1962. More or less in the centre the Town Hall with Bridge Mill and chimney to its right and to the left of the Town Hall the Hole-in-the-Wall and above that…

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The weaving shed with its north lights roof and Hebden Water taken from Nutclough Mill. Victoria Road top centre going off to the left; top left part of Hangingroyd Mill, long demolished, and the single storey building in front of it is now the…

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Date unknown but prior to demolition of Buttress Brink 1967/8.

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View over the town from the Buttress with Buttress Brink tenements on the right, demolished 1967/8.

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Looking across over Pallis House, centre bottom, with St Thomas RC Church and presbytery next to it. Date unknown but not a car to be seen but what appear to be open top trams on New Road which would date it pre- First World War.

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Hebden Bridge's Parish Church situated out of the town to the west at Mytholm. One of the so called 'million pound' churches it was built on land donated by the Rev. John Armytage Rhodes of adjacent Mytholm Hall. it was consecrated in 1933.

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From Old Gate looking at the back of Bridge Gate. All the buildings seen here on the river bank have been demolished to make way for the riverside path and Bridge Gate car park.

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Looking across the town from Cross Lanes Chapel Grave Yard at the top of the Buttress. Date unknown but prior to demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street in 1965.
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