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Showing the rear of Heptonstall Grammar School, now the home of Heptonstall Museum. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The houses on the left front onto Cliffe Street and above the wall on the right the roof of Stubbings School. The path is the remains of the old packhorse road between Heptonstall and Halifax from which a branch ran up to Old Town and on to Haworth.…

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The wooden building straddling the river in the viaduct arch had at one time a cafe. The station platforms extended along the viaduct but also over hung it supported by the massive brackets seen here. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society…

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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Author and adventurer William Holt set up a holiday camp, Hawden Hall Holiday Camp and Tea Gardens, in the early 1920's. He ran it for a year before selling out to an ex-soldier.
Hawden Hall is sometimes described as Hebden Hey in the early…

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Towards the end of the 19th century this housed a number of Wood Cutters working on the Savile Estate. Postcard.

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The gaily striped pavilion, a little downstream from Gibson Mill, was a popular venue for visitors to the Crags. Today the building remains but near derelict and the stepping stones have been dislodged by successive floods and not repaired.

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The lodge at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is on the left of the picture, and in the foreground the popular Lello's Tea Rooms.

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Gibson Mill began its life around 1803 as a water-powered spinning mill. Less than a hundred years later, it was called Lord Holme Mill, part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to the National Trust by Abraham Gibson of Greenwood…

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The houses on the left-hand edge of the photo are Crowther Terrace.

Left of centre in the valley bottom is the mill complex of Upper and Lower Lumb Mills , and Lumb Bank is on the right, part way up the hill.

The road on the left of the photo…

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Buttress Brink is on the right with the Hole in the Wall beyond. Probably taken just before demolition of Buttress Brink started in the 1960s.

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Colden Road, which runs from Mytholm to Jack Bridge, can be seen rising through the woodland. The "road" is known localley as the "Ragley".

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The Old Bridge originally built 1510 and repaired in 1602 and 1657 when it was described "in great ruin and decay". Seen here in about 1900 looking over to Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s, with the new 'Hole in the Wall' pub on the right.

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The Old Bridge looking downstream towards West End. The plaques on the abutment record it was repaired in 1602 and 1657. The building on the left on Bridge Gate was Thomas Marshall, coal merchant, that building and the mill beyond have long been…

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This was the home of the Stell family around 1920.
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