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This look like a woollen card hopper, but actually the photo was taken in the Blowing Room and shows a hopper opener, feeding a line of machines leading to the scutcher. Cotton comes in press-packed bales, and it must be loosened up or 'opened' and…

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Cllr Jonathan Timbers, Mayor of Hebden Road 2014/15, examining documents from the archive of Hebden Bridge Local History Society, January 2015.

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In January 2015 Mayor Cllr Jonathan Timbers visited the Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge, and met members of the Pennine Horizons team, Hebden Bridge Local History Society and Pennine Heritage. Pictured l to r: Alice Law , Sarah Shooter, Jonathan…

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Above Hebden Bridge near Mount Skip. Early 1970s. the Civic Trust. highlighting environmental issues.

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The BBC broadcast a Worker's Playtime from the canteen in the 1950s. Part of the mill can be seen in the background. Lily Young is front row left hand side, back row left hand side is Mrs Gough whose husband worked in the mill..

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The BBC broadcast a "Workers Playtime" from the canteen in the 1950s.

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The Hare and Hounds Inn is in the foreground and Acre Mill in the background. The mill was originally built as a textile mill but was taken over by Cape Asbestos in 1939. The company moved to Westmorland in the 1970s leaving a legacy of crippling…

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Ada Arden, on the right, taken outside Hymans Corner Cafe in the Square, Hebden Bridge.

Ada was mother-in-law to Derek Pollard and she and her husband were Aunt and Uncle to Dorothy Hyman, who was an Olympic athlete in the 60s.

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Stubbings School is just above the centre of this photo, and top right is the Birchcliffe Centre. Ref 419158

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Listed as Halifax Courier 24.1.1948, but the White Horse Inn has gone, so more likely to be 1968.

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Date unknown but prior to the demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street, Garden Street and Buttress Brink in the mid-1960s.

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

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The playground of Riverside School is at the bottom of the picture, with the Memorial Gardens to the right of it. Heptonstall Road is to the left with Queen's Terrace. Ref 419157

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Taken from the Keighley Road side of the town, Calder Holmes Park is at the top of the picture.

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The railway line runs diagonally across the picture, with Fairfield on the left and Calder Holmes Park on the right.
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