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Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, probably ready for its opening on 31st October 1899. It closed as a chapel in February 1974 and was bought by the Joseph Rowntree Social Services Trust. A floor was built across at balcony level to provide an upper storey.…

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General view over Woodend, Nutclough and Birchcliffe. View over Hebden Bridge with Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel on the right and above them Nutclough Mill. On the far hillside is the old Birchcliffe Chapel. Heptonstall Road is on the left.

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ALC00407. General town view c.1900. The new Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel (1899) just visible on the righthand hillside above Stubbings School but Riverside School (1908/9) being built on the land above the houses in the foreground. The Council Offices…

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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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In the centre the almost complete 'new' and much larger Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel with Edward Street below in course of construction The large retaining walls supporting Keighley Road and Birchcliffe Road now in place.

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ALC00400. c.1890. In the foreground the Hangingroyd area and behind the steep cliff through which Keighley Road has been cut but not yet supported by the large retaining walls. To the left Hangingroyd Mill; in the centre Nutclough Mill and above it…

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c.1888. In the centre is Nutclough Mill before the extension to the left, and above 'old' Birchcliffe Chapel. Housing starting to be developed on the hillside; top right Cliffe Royd on Wadsworth Lane and right behind the north side of Blenheim…

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ALC00398. c. 1880. Looking across to Birchcliffe with Foster Mill and Foster Lane on the left. On the left hillside is the 'old' Birchcliffe Chapel and graveyard on Sandy Gate. Wadsworth Lane climbs the hill and to its right are the houses on Cliff…

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Market Street looking towards West End in the 19th century. The building at the far end is Jackson Merchant Tailors. The horse drawn vehicle on the left is a two seater carriage but that on the right too indistinct. The shop bottom left is Joe Jagger…

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View over Hebden Bridge, with High Hurst on the horizon and showing the old Birchcliffe Chapel with its graveyard and the new one, now the Birchcliffe Centre, under construction. The houses of Eiffel Street are also under construction.

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Service at Birchcliffe Chapel to commemorate Edward VII, who died 6th May, 1910.

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The chapel had opened in 1825 but was replaced by the larger chapel lower down Birchcliffe Road in 1898, now the Birchcliffe Centre.

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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.

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Birchcliffe Tennis Club
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