Derek Pollard identified the chimney as that of Crossley Mill, which is beside the canal in Hebden Bridge. Have these people a ringside view of something happening on what is now Calder Holmes Park, a football match perhaps?
Undated postcard. Visitors walking up Keighley Road to Hardcastle Crags from the railway station early 20th century. All in their Sunday best for a day out in the country! At weekends and particularly at holiday times visitors to Hardcastle Crags and…
This shop is on the corner of Crown Street and St Georges Square. The bakery is at Mytholmroyd and there is another shop in Mytholmroyd. See reflection of Carlton Buildings in the plate glass window.
Just visible on the far right are houses on Heptonstall Road and above them Badger Lane climbing up to Blackshawhead Almost dead centre of the photo is the landmark chimney of Calder Mill.
Undated postcard. The women's dresses suggest that the photo is pre-First World War. Would hitching their dresses above the knees to paddle have been considered risque at the time?
Pictured in the Board Room at the Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge discussing an HLF application for funding are: standing L to R: Michael Newton with Phil Kennedy, David Fletcher and Frank Woolrych from Pennine Heritage Ltd. Seated: Nick Wilding,…