Looking over from Heptonstall Hillside. Bottom left Foster Mill, centre Hangingroyd Works, centre right Hebden Works with Nutclough Mill above. With the exception of Nutclough Mill most now demolished. Centre left going off at an angle the so called…
This was the third General Baptist's Chapel on the Birchcliffe Hillside the first opened in 1764 on Sandy Gate although meetings had been held at Higher Needless at the top of Wadsworth Lane some years earlier. In 1833 the chapel was rebuilt to…
David Fletcher walking up to the door. This was the third General Baptist's Chapel on the Birchcliffe Hillside the first opened in 1764 on Sandy Gate although meetings had been held at Higher Needless at the top of Wadsworth Lane some years earlier.…
Purchased in 1978 with assistance from the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust (JRSST) to save it from demolition, the building was converted in 1979 to the Pennine Heritage HQ and low cost office space for…
More or less in the centre the 'new' Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel in course of construction with the old Chapel above it to the left. Lower centre Nutclough Mill with part of Hangingroyd Mill and Hebden Works below.
David Fletcher giving a talk at the Birchcliffe Centre in the upper floor of the chapel after its first conversion to form a community space. The Birchcliffe Centre received a Heritage Lottery grant to improve the facilities of this upper floor which…
Clive and Beryl Sunderland (nee Clark). Left to right:- Molly Sunderland (nee McAuliffe), Jean Greatorex (nee Lumb), Clive, Beryl, Christine Stansfield (nee Lord) and Gillian?
The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen with the graveyard visible before it was colonised by trees. Being built is the new Birchcliffe Chapel which was completed in 1898. Chapel Avenue is just a building site!