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Engine Derailment at Todmorden Viaduct, September 1942. - MOT00473
Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm…
Engine Derailment at Todmorden Viaduct, September 1942. - MOT00474
Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm…
Flood Damage, Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd, 1946 - HBC00938
Showing the damage done to the buildings that overhang the river. Ironically this building was a dry cleaners. The large mill facing the road is Clough Mill.
Floods in Mytholmroyd, 1946 - HBC00901
Probably taken from the top of the tower of St Michaels'. It looks as if the policeman is suggesting to the car driver on the bridge that it may not be a good idea to continue!
Floods in Mytholmroyd, 1946 - HBC00902
The aftermath of the floods. The railings and entrance are to Burnley Road School.
Football Team, 1947/48 - ALC00870
Back row L-R John Langan, Roy Patrick, David Greatorex, Seth Marney, Unknown, ? Webster, Geoff Woodhead.
Front row L- R Denis Rapier, Nick Helliwell, Unknown, Unknown, Bernard Ingram,
Seated: John ?
Front row L- R Denis Rapier, Nick Helliwell, Unknown, Unknown, Bernard Ingram,
Seated: John ?
Girl's Hockey Team, 1949-50 - ALC00914
Standing L to R: Lillian Southwell, Barbara Jones, Margaret Robertshaw , Sheila Scott, Joyce Bricknell, Wendy Casson, nee Marshall, Beryl Stocks. Middle row, L to R: Eileen Mortimer, Constance Jackson, Sheila ? , Jean Walmsley, Eileen Sayer. Front…
Group of Servicemen, c1940 - JET00275
Briscoe Haworth, born 13.5.1924, is on the left on back row.
Hebden Bridge 1946 - ALC00382
The great flood of September 20th 1946. Hebden Water and the Old Bridge. Taken from St Georges Bridge, the Council Offices are on the right.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00379
St Georges Square, left, and Bridge Gate right. The shop was Elton Jowett's tobacconist shop, his house was next door, and the shop on the corner behind the van was the Economic Stores. The wooden hut on Bridge Gate was Ma Jones'.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00380
New Road and the Picture House.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00381
Market Street looking towards Bridge Lanes and the chimney of Calder Mill.
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00383
Albert Street looking down to Crossley Mill on New Road, with the Albert Hotel on the right and Croft Mill on the left. The floods of 1946 were generally regarded as the worst of the 20th century. Albert Street, Hebden Bridge, was among the areas…
Hebden Bridge 1946 Flood - ALC00384
Hope Street. The building with the gabled porch was for many years the Police Station.
Hebden Bridge Foster Lane Chapel Choir, 1948. - HLS00138
The Chapel closed in 1960 and was demolished.
Hebden Bridge Grammar School football team, 1947/48 - ING00104
Hebden Bridge Grammar School football team 1947 –’48. Sir Bernard, seated first right, started his career in journalism not long after this photo was taken. Taken at the Alice Longstaff Studio, West End, Hebden Bridge. Old code No. AT002 ALGC.
Hebden Bridge Grammar School hockey team, 1942-43 - ALC00863
L to R: Back row: Mavis Dawson, Mary McGregor , ? ,Kathleen Heron. Front row: Rita ?, ? , Marjorie Smith, Margaret Wignell (Jones), ? .
Heysham June 20th 1940 - EIL00174
The two ladies are Emma Longbottom and Dorothy Smith, and the event was possibly a Heptonstall Methodist Sunday School trip.
Holdsworth House, Halifax, 1948 - HLS01420
Now a hotel.