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Construction of Gorple Reservoir, Heptonstall, 1928 - HBC01063
Gorple Lower Reservoir looking north. 10.4.28
Hebden Bridge - General View Up Hebden Dale - HLS00114
c.1912. In the foreground the large station warehouse which had been extended in 1884 and the sidings. The warehouse was demolished in 1969 following serious fire damage but goods facilities had been withdrawn in 1966.
Bridges at Mytholmroyd, 1960 - HLS00159
Showing the rear of the 'up' Manchester Platform across the viaduct. The platforms not only extended across the viaduct but overhung it supported by massive brackets as seen here. This was not without incident and on more than one occasion flags and…
Hebden Bridge Station c.1845 - HLS00169
Tinted lithograph of the station by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway, published in 1845. This section of the line had opened in October 1840.
Mytholm & Stubbing Holme, Hebden Bridge. - HLS00172
Looking up the valley with the chimney of Calderside Mill next to Whiteley Arches top centre. On the left houses on Stubbing Holme under construction and to their right Stubbing Holme Dyeworks.
Hebden Bridge c.1912 - HLS00195
In the foreground the station warehouse and sidings and above them across Calder Holmes is Crossley Mill.
Whitely Arches, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge - HLS00283
Tinted lithograph of Whitely Arches by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway' published in 1845. The valley is so narrow at this point with the river, canal and turnpike all squeezed into the valley bottom that with the…
Burnley Road, Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge 1952. - HLS00319
Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Junction of Burnley Road with Station Road, Hebden Bridge. Photo dated 28/4/52. Below the arm pointing to the station the former Gas Works at…
Hebden Bridge Cheap Trip to Hull - HLS00340
Poster offering a cheap trip to Hull in open wagons! At 3 shillings (15p) it wouldn't have seemed cheap to a textile worker on 15 shillings a week. However the Leeds Mercury reported that "people flocked from the hills and adjacent country including…
Hebden Bridge - HLS00342
c. 1880. In the foreground the railway sidings which were constructed in 1877 and just visible to their right part of the station warehouse before it was extended in 1884. In the centre Crossley Mill and behind it Stubbings School (1878) and housing…
Hebden Bridge Eastbound Train - HLS00343
An east bound train leaving the town. Date unknown but before the track was quadrupled in 1906. Victoria Mill can be seen above the smoke.
Mytholmroyd Station - HLS00344
Mytholmroyd Station around 100 years ago: but the new buildings failed to impress critics. St Michael’s Church, top left, remains but much else has since disappeared including parts of the station and the signal box. The rear of the 'up' Manchester…
Sowerby Bridge Station - HLS00345
The station approach in BR days. The station was demolished in 1978 following serious fire damage and all that remains is the single storey building on the left now the Jubilee Refreshment Rooms.
Baldersdale - HLS00364
One of the engines used in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This picture is believed to have been taken in 1903 at the halt below Heptonstall Slack.
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - HLS00438
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