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Waterloo Bank, Old Town - HCC00713
Waterloo Bank, built in 1894 by the Mitchell family. These houses (and many others in the area) were at one time owned by Abraham Gibson (1887 - 1956) and Constance Calverley (1882 - 1948), who were the last survivors of the Mitchell and Gibson…
Official Opening of the Sowerby Bridge Lock - KST00122
Tuel Lane Lock was built in 1996 as part of the canal's restoration, and replaces two previous locks, locks 3 and 4, from the original canal system. With a fall of 19 feet 8.5 inches (6 m), it is the deepest lock in the United Kingdom. The official…
Tuel Lane Lock, Sowerby Bridge - KST00121
3rd May, 1996. Celebrating the re-opening of the Rochdale Canal through Sowerby Bridge with the construction of Tuel Lane Lock, now the deepest inland waterway lock in the UK at 19ft 8½inches, connecting to the Calder & Hebble Navigation.
rochdale Canal, Sowerby Bridge - KST00118
This is Waylon, the 1st broadbeam barge to pass through the new deep lock at Sowerby Bridge on 5.5.96 for the official opening. It took a party of vips to a civic reception in Hebden Bridge. It is here passing Corporation Mill in Sowerby Bridge.
Commemorative D Day Normandy Landings Coin 1994 - HCC00184
Reverse of HCC00178 - Coin minted to commemorate the end of WW11. Donated by Richard Baldwin
Commemorative D Day Normandy Landings Coin 1994 - HCC00178
Coin minted to commemorate the end of WW11. Donated by Richard Baldwin
Presentation to Donald Taylor - HCC00131
Frank Woolrych presenting Donald Taylor with a prize for a photographic competition staged by the Alice Longstaff Collection and the National Trust. Lloyd Greenwood on the right.
Midgley Providence Methodist Chapel prior to conversion. - HCC00116
Site of the pulpit in the centre and the choir pews being dismsntled in 1994.
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The chapel could…
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The chapel could…
Midgley Providence Methodist Chapel following closure in 1994. - HCC00113
Organ and pulpit.
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The chapel could hold 500/700 people and there were six class rooms and a…
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The chapel could hold 500/700 people and there were six class rooms and a…
Midgley Providence Methodist Chapel following closure in 1994. - HCC00112
The entrance door on the left with the steps up to the Chapel which as on the first floor.
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The…
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The…
Midgley Providence Methodist Chapel following closure in 1994. - HCC00111
Looking up to the rear gallery.
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The chapel could hold 500/700 people and there were six class…
The first chapel in the village, Union Chapel, was built in 1818 at a cost of £400 and replaced by Providence Chapel in 1883, built at a cost of £1420. The chapel could hold 500/700 people and there were six class…
Bacup Britannia Coconut Dancers - PNH00165
The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers of Bacup. The nut dance is most unusual and is performed either in a straight line or two lines of four with each of the dancers wearing wooden discs or nuts on their hands, and knees with a belly nut around the waist. …
Alice Longstaff's Shop, 1992 - ALC05174
Taken on the weekend of the closing down sale, Easter, 1992
The Alice Longstaff Gallery Logo - ALC00100
The Alice Longstaff Gallery logo. The idea for the collection’s logo came from a painting by Mr Donald Crossley that he presented to Alice in September 1991 to celebrate her 70 years in business. A few weeks later Alice had a heart attack and died…
Shop in St Georges Square - BIM00396
At the time the photo was taken this tobacconist /confectionary shop was run by Sandra Lomas, as you can partially see in the sign.
It later became Barkers newsagent / tobacconnist, run by Peter Barker, who formerly ran a newsagent at the Bridge…
It later became Barkers newsagent / tobacconnist, run by Peter Barker, who formerly ran a newsagent at the Bridge…
View of Hebden Bridge from The Buttress - BIM00393
Mount Zion Chapel and Stubbings School can be seen on the hillside with the Hole in the Wall public house at the foot of The Buttress, and the Council Offices (now the Town Hall) on the left.
Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge - BIM00392
Looking down from Keighley Road end.