Viewed from West End Bridge looking upstream towards the Old Bridge. All the buildings on the right-hand river bank have now gone making way for the riverside path and car park on Bridge Gate.
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid 1960s as unfit for human habitation. Viewed here from The Buttress looking to the Old Bridge with The-Hole-in-the-Wall on the left.
The tenements at the bottom of the Buttress were demolished in the mid 1960s as unfit for human habitation. The houses to the right of the bridge were demolished and replaced by a riverside walk.
Looking upstream from West End Bridge with Old Gate on the left and on the right the rear of now demolished buildings on Bridge Gate. Above these is St John's Church now replaced by housing. Only the cottages in the centre on the left have been…
Three John Pickles employees, Tony Summerscales, apprentice foundary pattern maker (on left) Gainger Lee, apprentice centre lathe turner (centre) and Derek Pollard, apprentice fitter, on the right. c1959
HEPTON BRIDGE was written about by the late W.B. Crump at p121 in the 1924 HAS Transactions, in Part 111 of “Ancient Highways of the Parish of Halifax.”
The opening of the new Hole in the Wall in 1899. This replaced an earlier Inn which had been demolished a few years earlier and temperance groups unsuccessfully fought to prevent it being replaced.