In the top left hand corner is the road to Heptonstall, with Cross Lanes Chapel close by. The white house in the foreground is Palace House after which Palace House Road is named. The large building to the right of centre is Hope Baptist Church.
You can clearly see that Nutclough Mill, in the centre of the picture, was built in stages. The dark part is the earliest, it was extended to one side and then the other and then upwards. To the left of the mill you can see the town's gas holder.…
The foreground of the photograph shows the terrace houses off Stubbing Holme Road, which are approached from a turning halfway up Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge. You can see the reflections of the terrace ends in the Rochdale Canal. The houses are built…
The road entering the photo bottom left is Church Lane. After the sharp left hand bend it passes Bank Terrace and Glen view and is known locally as ‘Mytholm Steeps’, further up becoming Badger Lane as it reaches Blackshawhead.
Also known as Co-op Buildings, the photo is taken from Albert Street. the White Horse Inn can be seen to the right of Carlton Buildings. The building just visible on Crown Street was a foundry, it later became Sowden's blacksmith shop.
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…
The price of fish, chips, tea and bread and butter is 8d. in the cafe nick named Mrs Cuddys on New Road. It was moved to the canal side on Holme Street and converted into a garage later becoming Southwells Coaches, which later became the site of the…
A view into the chancel of St James the Great, now the parish church of Hebden Bridge. A Grade II listed Commissioner's Church. Rev. A Rhodes and his wife Mary gave the land for the church to be built and the stone from a local quarry. The Church was…
Crossley Mill is to be found in the centre of the right hand edge of the picture. The main building of the Co-operative Industrial Society, Carlton Buildings, is in the centre of the photo, with Hope Baptist Church, in the foreground. Heptonstall…
Looking over Hebden Bridge to the Birchcliffe hillside. In the centre of the picture with its arched portico is the former Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, opened in 1899, now the Birchcliffe Centre, home of Pennine Heritage Ltd. The chapel looks newly…
The Old Bridge looking upstream from Old Gate.. The plaques on the abutment record it was repaired in 1602 and 1657. The building on the right on Bridge Gate was Thomas Marshall, coal merchant, that building and the mill beyond have long been…