1993, and there has been a disastrous fire at Edmondsons on Valley Road. Fortunately the Fire Brigade were able to prevent the fire spreading to Shepherds Garage next door.
The building on the right of the picture is Bridge Mill and behind it can…
Situated on Holme Street, the brick building is the Trades Club, and behind the trees is Riverside School. The old Little Theatre has been demolished and preparations are starting for building the new one.
Date unknown but probably late 1940s/early 1950s as the first steel pre-fabricated houses at Dodnaze on Wadsworth Lane can be seen. Central Street and Riverside Schools feature prominently
On the left is the Sportsman Inn which closed many years ago and now a private house. On the right, by the lamp post, is the road down to St John's Church, and the Hinchliffe Arms. In the centre is the Board, ie Council, School. The car has a…
Undated postcard but Calder High School, top centre, is under construction and although work on the school started before the war, it did not open until 1950, it was the West Riding's first comprehensive school. Redman's Scarbottom Mill, with its…
Possibly Mr Collins of Heptonstall by the Old Bridge in Hebden Bridge, taken from Old Gate, March 1970. Stubbings School is in the centre of the picture, and St john's Church on the left.
Looking towards Todmorden and the footbridge at the end of Holme Street, which leads to Calder Holmes Park. On the right you can just see Riverside School.
Stubbing School is to the left of the picture, behind it is the back-to-back terrace of Osborne Street. The large building on the right hand side of the picture is Zion Chapel
Date unknown but between construction of Riverside School in 1908/9 and the Picture House in 1921. The dark wooden building on the other side of the road to Hope Chapel was the Black & White Cafe.
At the top of Colden Clough was Jack Bridge Mill. Production at the mill ceased early 20th century but it wasn't demolished until many years later. Colden School is to the left of the road. On the left of the picture you can just make out Broadstone…
Date unknown. Noticeable in the centre are the arches of Stubbings School and next to it on the left is St John's Church, demolished in the 1980s. The 4 storeyed mill bottom centre was known as Melbourne Mill, which was demolished in 1983, now the…