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Fielden Square, Todmorden - MCH00175
Postcard dated 1906. The statue of John Fielden designed by J.H. Foley and cast in 1869, was moved here from its original site outside the Town Hall. In 1939 it was again moved to its current site (2019) in Centre Vale Park.
Hope Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge - MCH00156
Postcard dated 1905. Hope Baptist Church with the adjacent Manse - Hope House.
Market Street, Hebden Bridge - MCH00124
Market Street used to be main shopping street in the town. Note the architecture of the buildings above ground floor level. The mill closing off the view of the street was Barbreck Mill.
Guided Walk in Hebden Bridge
Tony Wright leading the walk.
Guided Walk in Hebden Bridge
Tony Wright leading the walk.
Guided Walk in Hebden Bridge
Tony Wright leading the walk.
Crown Street, Halifax - DPC00562
An atmospheric shot of Crown Street with a full moon highlighting the scene.
Top of Woolshops & Market Street, Halifax, 1830 - DPC00558
Postcard of a print drawn by Joseph Rideal Smith and printed by Stott Brothers, lithographers of Halifax, from Smith's series of a dozen views, "Old Halifax", the set selling for 50 shillings. So commercially successful were Smith's drawings that he…
The Post Office, Halifax - DPC00535
The very handsome Post Office building on Commercial Street, now disused, with the main office at present in the WH Smith shop at Woolshops. The shop on the left was for many years a very popular toyshop. Postcard dated 1019.
The Post Office - DPC00533
The very handsome Post Office building on Commercial Street, now disused, with the main office at present in the WH Smith shop at Woolshops. The shop on the left was for many years a very popular toyshop.
Commercial Street, Halifax - DPC00531
The view along this busy street is just the same today, nut the shops on the left side of the street are used today by Harvey's Department Store. The Clarks store was used by the Coop with many different departments for many years until the 1990s.…
Borough Market and arcades, Halifax - DPC00449
The date on the reverse of this card is 1940 and the buildings on the left remain today, although they are very much cleaner. The buildings on the right were all demolished to make way for the Woolshops development in the 1980s. The building to the…
Union Street Tram Terminus, Halifax - DPC00429
This view is the lower end of Union Street with Westgate on the right (sign visible above the gent leaning on the lamp-post). The shop fronts on the left remain today, the date of the picture is probably the 1920s. The cobbles and tramlines have…
Union Street, Halifax - DPC00419
The view along this street bears no resemblance to today's scene apart from the lower end of the Borough Market on the right. The only building that remained after the redevelopment in the 1980s is on the right with the two gable ends and is now a…
Todmorden 2003 - CRN00399
By St Mary's Church.
Todmorden 2003 - CRN00398
This work was carried out on the site of the Barclays Bank branch, opposite the town hall, which was demolished. The White Hart pub (now Wetherspoons) can be seen on the top right of the shot.
Midgley Road, Mytholmroyd - MOS00181
The large mill on the left, Clough Mill, was demolished to allow the widening of the junction of Midgley Road with the main Halifax road.
New Road, Mytholmroyd - MOS00178
The Mytholmroyd Industrial Society store is on the right.
Liberal Club, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge - MOS00140
In the latter part of the 19th Century the Liberals bought a plot of land between Carlton Street and Cheetham Street in Hebden Bridge for £1,400. They then sold half of it to the Co-operative Society for £1,350 and built the Liberal Club on the…
Hebden Bridge - West End and Bridge Gate 1855/6 - HLS05074
West End at the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Chambers shop on the right later becomes Blackburn Ironmongers and Greaves Draper and Hosiery was later Z Spence florist who later moved to the corner of New Road and Crown…
Hebden Bridge - West End and Bridge Gate 1855/6 - HLS05073
West End at the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Chambers shop on the right later becomes Blackburn Ironmongers and Greaves Draper and Hosiery was later Z Spence florist who later moved to the corner of New Road and Crown…
Birchcliffe Hillside, Hebden Bridge - DEF00510
Birchcliffe hillside taken from Heptonstall Road circa 1970. Eiffel Tower is in the foreground and Birchcliffe Chapel to the right.
- DPC00299
Postcard dated November 1907