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.
Nutclough Mill is in the centre of the picture, above its chimney is Sandy Gate, with the fields of Old town behind. Birchcliffe Chapel centre right. Source: Barbara Shepherd. Ref: At568BAS.
The buildings in the foreground are Regent Street / Sackville Street / Cleveland Place / Oak Street as they were initially developed. The deeds to 2 Regent Street and 6 Sackville Street indicate the properties were built in the1890's. The houses 2…
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!
Undated postcard. Hangingroyd housing can be seen bottom left with Old Town top left. Old Birchcliffe Chapel is towards the top right with the new 1898 Chapel below it. Demolition appears to be taking place at the old Birchcliffe Chapel, the stone…
Hebden Water below the huge retaining wall supporting Keighley Road. When the turnpike was built c.1815 a shelf was cut out of the cliff to accommodate it.
Looking up Hebden Water to Nutclough Mill top right. Keighley Road is supported above the river by a huge retaining wall at this point. When constructed as the Lees & Hebden Bridge Turnpike in about 1815 it was built on a shelf cut out of the cliff.
Looking along the road with Nutclough Mill water tower in the centre and on the right part of Hangingroyd Mill, the home of Hoyles, now long demolished. The car in the centre has a 1978/9 registration.