View from the bottom of School Street over Lees Yard and down Crown Street.
Mick Shepley believes the girl in the picture may well be his now wife, when she was about 13/14 in 1970. Her name then was Margaret (Maggie) Calver and she lived at 10…
c1970. The top of the tower like building centre left contained a water tank for the sprinkle system for the Co-op building just out of view on the left.
In the centre Lees Yard Car Park originally the site of the White Horse Hotel, demolished 1962. More or less in the centre the Town Hall with Bridge Mill and chimney to its right and to the left of the Town Hall the Hole-in-the-Wall and above that…
View of Garden Street in Hebden Bridge, August 1973. The top and bottom houses have been demolished but work to create a carpark not yet undertaken. The chimney of Bridge Mill and roof of the Council Offices are in the foreground.
A real action picture even though there are as many watchers as workers. In the background you can see the White Horse Inn and further still, Zion Chapel. The building on the right has since been given a new look. From a stereographic photograph.