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View of the town centre c.1880 with Hope Baptist Chapel in the foreground. Centre left the large storeyed Foster Mill. Above the mill the chimneys of Lee Mill and Lower and upper Midgehole Mills. Climbing top centre right is Keighley Road

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View across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, wedged between Victoria Mill to its right and the large railway warehouse to the left and beyond it Crossley Mill. Bottom right the Crow Nest Works of the joint…

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Bottom centre the passenger station and to its left the large railway warehouse and goods sidings. Above them can be seen Riverside School, originally Hebden Bridge Grammar School which opened 1909. At the top of Station Road by Princes Bridge is…

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ALC00406. View of the town and its mills c.1895. Behind Hope Baptist Chapel the large Co-Op Bulding and clock tower completed 1889 but looking left from it the Council Offices (1896) not yet built. Just visible lower right are railway wagons in the…

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This can be accurately dated as to the right of Stubbings School, left centre, can be seen work on the construction of Zion Baptist Chapel which opened in 1882. Below it are the buildings on both sides of Commercial Street which were demolished in…

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Pre-1960. Looking from above Palace House Road over to Heptonstall Road and Cross Lanes Chapel on the hillside, demolished in the mid-1960s. Bottom right corner the top of Hope Baptist just visible.

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An Evening with Julie Felix the iconic singer/song-writer celebrating peace, freedom and love. Heptonstall Methodist Chapel.

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An Evening with Julie Felix, the iconic singer/song-writer, celebrating peace,freedom and love at Heptonstall Methodist Chapel.

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Hepton Singers, under the direction of Alison West, in St Thomas's Church, Heptonstall.

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The Catholic Church at Fairfield. St. Thomas of Canterbury was opened on 31st October 1896. The converted premises in Union Street became too small so land was purchased at Fairfield. Members of the congregation helped with its construction as there…

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Date unknown but seemingly prior to the building of the Council offices in 1897/8 but after the enlargement of the impressive Co-op building with its clock tower in 1889, seen here behind Hope Baptist Chapel.

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Palace House is in the right foreground and to the left is the Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury adjoining which is the school, now demolished. Beyond Palace House is Calder Holmes and the original canal basin and New road. An open top…

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This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…

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General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.

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View across the town late 19th or early 20th century prior to the building of Riverside School in 1908. Bottom right is Central School following enlargement in 1895. Looking up the river beyond the second bridge the Council Offices built in 1897/8.…

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Old Gate on the left and in the centre is the chimney of Bridge Mill, above it St John's Church and just visible above that the pediment of Birchcliffe Chapel. The buildings on the right have been demolished and a water side walkway over the…

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Looking across Hebden Bridge from Fairfield, Palace House road is in the foreground with the railway station behind. Note all the trucks in the sidings. Behind the station on the far side of the field, next to the canal, the large Crossley Mill…

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Looking into the yard at the back of the White Lion Hotel. They even had their own petrol pump. Behind the big house at the bottom of Birchcliffe Road can be seen the parish church of St John with Stubbing School to the right of it.
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