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Alice Ogden - GMA00146
Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book"A Village Childhood"
Frank Woolrych watching Secretly Pleased - DMC00127
A play based on the life of Alice Longstaff, written by Anna Carlisle and performed in July 2007 by Alexandra Mathie and Robert Garrett in the beautiful setting of Land Farm Garden at Colden.
Mary Ann Hollingrake, left, with Colleagues - DEP00440
Left is Mary Ann Holinrake, Grandmother of Derek Pollard. She lived in Heptonstall and worked in a sewing shop in Hebden Bridge. Mary holds a pair of scissors in her hand, the girl in the centre has a tape measure round her neck and the one on the…
Councillor, Milton Sunderland, and his Lady, 1953 - HBC00968
Chairman and Consort of Hebden Bridge Urban District Council
Pastors of Heptonstall Slack Chapel - HBC01009
Rev. J. Hubbard, Rev. D.A. Spence, Rev. John Lawton, Rev. J.K. Archer, Rev. E.G. Thomas.
Hannah Riley and Daniel Jones Crossley, c1858 - HLS00147
They moved into the newly built Fallingroyd House, Hebden Bridge, with their two sons in 1873.
Daniel and Hannah were both born in 1824. A descendant of these two people, Mrs Duly, sent the photograph to Diana Monahan. The family believed the…
Daniel and Hannah were both born in 1824. A descendant of these two people, Mrs Duly, sent the photograph to Diana Monahan. The family believed the…
Portrait of a Man in Masonic Regalia - HLS00405
Probably one of the Gibsons. From the HBLHS Gibson Collection
Miss Audrey Bedford - HLS01214
Hebden Royd's "Miss Britannia" for Warship week February 1942 - a fund raising pageant. Miss Audrey Bedford of 19 White Lee Gardens, Mytholmyoyd.
HBLSS Local History Committee 2000. - HLS01220
Back Row L to R. Steve Murty, Pat Farthing (now Benson), Mike Tilley (Vice Chairman), Paul Monahan, Bill Marsden, Ann Kilbey, Brian Hoyle. Front Row. Jean Hamer, Diana Monahan, Frank Woolrych (President), Sheila Hopkinson, Beryl Woolrych.
Portrait - HLS01465
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Portrait - HLS01466
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Portrait - HLS01467
PH13m. May be Henry William Greenwood of Birchcliffe. Would be aged 10 in 1899.
Portrait - HLS01468
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Portrait - HLS01469
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The Rev Dan Taylor. Founder General Baptist Chapel, Birchcliffe. - HLS05117
Born in Northowram, Halifax, in 1738 the Rev Dan Taylor came to Hebden Bridge and held meetings in a room at Higher Needless near the top of Wadsworth Lane. As his congregation grew larger premises were required and a Chapel on Sandy Gate was opened…
The Rev John Fawcett. Baptist Minister at Wainsgate and Ebenezer - HLS05118
HLS05118. John Fawcett from Bradford became minister to the Particular Baptists at Wainsgate in 1764. Whislt still minister there he moved to Brearley Hall and opened a college there for young men. Then in 1777 he opened Ebenezer Chapel down in…
The Rev John Foster, Essayist - HLS05119
HLS05119. Born in 1770 to a farmer and weaver near Halifax and at about 17 he attended the Rev John Fawcett's Particular Baptist Academy at Brearley Hall. From there he went to the Baptist College but after several positions as a Baptist Minister…
Sally of Heptonstall - HLS05120
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The Bill Sticker - HLS05121
The Bill Sticker 1885
Advertising developed rapidly during the nineteenth century and even in small communities advertising hoardings existed. Poster advertising provided a livelihood for those who erected and rented the 'posting stations',…
Advertising developed rapidly during the nineteenth century and even in small communities advertising hoardings existed. Poster advertising provided a livelihood for those who erected and rented the 'posting stations',…
The Dining Room, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05865
Slide 9: It is a fine apartment, and very characteristic of the period at which it was built, namely the early part of the 18th century. The furniture in the room has a substantial and homely character about it. Over the mantle-piece are the arms…
The Dining Room, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05866
Slide 10: The house is rich in family portraits, one of which is seen over the sideboard at the end of the Dining room, and is a portrait of John Hutton, died 1782. Note also the peculiar weight clock in an upright oak case, standing on three claw…
The Library, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05867
Slide 11: Marske owes its splendid library of books to Mr John Hutton, who died in 1863, aged 84. A view of the room in which the books are stored is now shown. Over the mantle-piece hangs a portrait of Matthew Hutton, who formed the destinies of…
Marske Hall, portrait of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury
Slide 13: The next Hutton who figures in history was another with the Christian prefix Matthew, who was born at Marske, January 8th 1692, and who entered the Church, and became successively Bishop of Bangor in 1743, Archbishop of York in 1747, and…