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The Bridge, Station Road, Luddendenfoot. - WAO00249
Postcard with September 1922 postmark. Looking up to the junction with Burnley Road with the bridge over the River Calder in the foreground and then the bridge over the Rochdale Canal further on.
Luddendenfoot General View. - WAO00246
Holmes Park and Recreation Ground on the left.
Cragg Vale, near Mytholmroyd - WAO00227
Looking down Cragg Road towards Mytholmroyd. The Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is on the left.
Hebden Bridge General View. - WAO00211
Postcard with July 1954 postmark. Bottom left is the Hangingroyd area and above it the Birchcliffe Hillside. Right of centre is the station area with the large station warehouse, Victoria Mill and the gas works, all now demolished.
Mytholmroyd. - WAO00191
Townscape prior to construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908 but after the arrival of the trams in 1901. On the hillside is Scout Road School and along the bottom the Rochdale Canal.
Hebden Bridge. - WAO00187
Undated postcard. The image is probably early 20th century. Right of centre is Foster Mill and dam with Hebden Water below it. The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen on the hillside above town.
Mytholmroyd General View. - WAO00178
Undated postcard but the image is prior to the construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908. Prominent left of centre is the Primitive Methodist Zion Chapel.
Railway at Mytholmroyd - WAO00175
Unknown locomotive heading from Mytholmroyd towards Hebden Bridge. The line had been increased to four tracks between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd in 1906 but reverted to two tracks in the 1980s.
Mytholmroyd Townscape - WAO00108
Postcard with 1938 postmark. Still a busy small mill town! Scarbottom Mill with its mill dam is to the right of centre, with Thornber's poultry sheds to the left. On the skyline towards the left is Midgley Methodist Chapel.
St George's Square, Hebden Bridge - RAW00119
Taken in the 1960s. Crown Street going off to the left.
View over Hebden Bridge - RAW00106
Looking over to the Birchcliffe hillside with the distinctive arches of Stubbings School in the centre. To the left of the school is St John's C of E Church consecrated in 1931 but closed in the 1980s.
Hebden Bridge Rooftops - KEC00430
Bridge Mll is on the left and the shops of St Georges Square are in the foreground Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Hebden Bridge rooftops. To the left is Bridge Mill. The houses on Moss Lane can be seen top left - KEC00429
SONY DSC Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale - KEC00114
The church tennis court is on the right of the picture. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale - KEC00113
Vale Mill chimney can be seen on the far side of the church. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Hebden Bridge from Horsehold, 1960s. - KEC00106
The chimney of Calder Mill can be seen prominently on the left. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags - EIL00132
Probably early 20th century picture, before the mill was converted for dancing and refreshments. Later photos have windows let into the roof, possibly to light the dance hall.
Evercreme Toffee Works, Brearley - ALC06362
Burnley Road at the top of Brearley Lane was the site of the Evercreme Toffee Works. On every 'Toyplane' toffee was printed a letter from the word 'Toyplane'. When you had collected all the letters you could send in the wrappers in exchange for a…
View over Hebden Bridge c1920 - ALC06347
The town has changed a good deal since this photo was taken. Several of the mills have gone, along with the Bridge Lane houses, running from bottom left to right. Looking at the Birchcliffe area, centre right, a good many more house have been built.…
View over Mytholm, c1900 - ALC05184
The house in the lower centre of the photo was a Lock Keeper's House on the Rochdale Canal. To the right-hand side of the Photo is Mytholm Hall with behind it the Parish Church of Hebden Bridge - St. James the Great, and behind that the two Eaves…
Silk Mills, Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge - ALC05176
Silk Mills, Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge
Folly Mill and Cottages, Todmorden - ALC05169
Folly Mill, in Lumbutts Clough. Seen here in a derelict condition, it was demolished in the 1920s. The row of houses was known locally as Mouse Nest.
Jack Bridge Mill 1910 - ALC05168
In the foreground is Colden Water, the houses top right are Lower Smithy. Colden school is to the right of the mill chimney
Jack Bridge Mill - ALC05167
In the 1960's before Moderna Blankets a company called D.E.Stuttard Ltd made oil fired boilers called 'Desomatic'. R Thomas 01422 846392 as a brass plate which was attached to the boilers. Ref: 037.
Looking down onto Hebden Bridge - ALC05166
Nutclough Mill is in the centre of the picture, above its chimney is Sandy Gate, with the fields of Old town behind. Birchcliffe Chapel centre right. Source: Barbara Shepherd. Ref: At568BAS.