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Acre Mill Canteen Staff - DEP00184
The BBC broadcast a Worker's Playtime from the canteen in the 1950s. Part of the mill can be seen in the background. Lily Young is front row left hand side, back row left hand side is Mrs Gough whose husband worked in the mill..
Acre Mill Canteen Staff, Old town - DEP00186
The BBC broadcast a "Workers Playtime" from the canteen in the 1950s.
Acre Mill, Billy Lane, Wadswoth - ALC00249
Across the centre is Acre Mill of Cape Asbestos. Known as 'The Killer Mill' after the asbestosis suffered by its workers due to breathing in asbestos dust. It closed in 1970 and was demolished in 1979 apart from the building seen down the centre of…
Acre Mill, Old town - DAH00217
The Hare and Hounds Inn is in the foreground and Acre Mill in the background. The mill was originally built as a textile mill but was taken over by Cape Asbestos in 1939. The company moved to Westmorland in the 1970s leaving a legacy of crippling…
Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge. - KEC00176
Bankfoot House and Adelaide Street on the left with Bankfoot Mill on the right, the mill was demolished in the 1970s. Beyond the trees in the centre Brown's engineering works just visible. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Bankfoot, Mytholm, Hebden Bridge. - DEF00290
Early 1960s looking down onto Bridge Lanes centre right, to the left Adelaide Street and Bankfoot Garage with Bankfoot Mill.
Bull Fall, Cragg Vale - CVH00146
Where did that name come from, can anyone help? St johns Church is at the bottom of the picture, with Church Bank Mill behind, beyond that Cragg School.
Bull Fall, Cragg Vale - MCH00114
"Bull Fall" is the name given to the woodland behind the Primary School, built high above the road. Across the road from the school is Church Bank Mill. St John in the Wilderness - Cragg Vale's Parish Church being in the foreground.
Cape Asbestos - KEC00322
Cape Asbestos, Old Town near Hebden Bridge Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Cape Asbestos, Acre Mill, Hebden Bridge. - KEC00322
The mill at Chiserley, Old Town gained notoriety as 'The Killer Mill, as many of its worker contracted asbestosis through breathing in asbestos dust. The mill closed in 1970 but wasn't largely demolished until 1978/9. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local…
Chiserley, Old Town, Hebden Bridge 1953. - HLS00330
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking West at junction with Estate Road. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their Ref: 32/3(6). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.…
Chiserley, Old Town, Hebden Bridge 1953. - HLS00334
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking West at junction. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their Ref: 32/3(7). On the left is Mitchell's Mill.
Chiserley, Old Town, Hebden Bridge 1953. - HLS00336
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking East. "Before" photo taken 10/4/53. Their Ref: 32/3(5). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield. Acre Mill asbestos works is…
Chiserley, Old Town, Hebden Bridge 1954. - HLS00331
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking West at junction with Estate Road. "After" photo taken 1/10/54. Their Ref: 32/3(6a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.…
Chiserley, Old Town, Hebden Bridge 1954. - HLS00337
Hepton R.D. Pecket and Luddendenfoot C.R. C.42. Improvement at Junction with Walker Lane, Chiserley Looking East. "After" photo taken 1/10/54 Their Ref: 32/3(5a). Highways and Bridges Department, County Hall, Wakefield.
Cragg Vale - CVH00117
An interesting shot with St John's church in the valley, and Church Bank Mill with the school behind it. Note how bare the hillside looks. Turvin Mill is to the right.
Hebden Bridge
HLS05081. Right of centre is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder. Above it Adelaide Street and above that Bankfoot Mill. In the centre Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and Eaves Mills. The Hall and all the…
Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot, c1930 - ALC00342
Looking down towards Bankfoot with well spaced gas lamps. Bankfoot House on the left and Bankfoot Dyeworks centre right. The days before 'smoke free zones' with smoke coming from the chimneys of several houses on the hillside. The car, perhaps being…