Yorkshire based sand artist Jamie Wardley and the Sand In Your Eye Team created a 10 tonne sand sculpture in the courtyard at Hebden Royd Town Hall in August 2014. The piece was entitled ‘Loss is Eternal’ and depicts the moment when the wife of a…
The chapel front on the left and the side of the Town Hall on the right. A breakaway group from the Wesleyan York Street Chapel had opened a chapel here in 1838 but that chapel was demolished and replaced by this much larger one in 1873, dubbed the…
No 2 bus outside the Town Hall on 1st January 1907 prior to the inaugural run to Steanor Bottom. The Mayor, Alderman Abraham Crossley, is standing at the extreme right surrounded by children and well-wishers. The bus, one of two supplied by…
In July 2007 the Town Council granted £1,700 to the Alice Longstaff Gallery Collection. Pictured L to R: Mayor Cllr Nadir Fekri, Alexandra (Alex) Mathie, Angie Cairns, Robert Garrett and Frank Woolrych. The money was used to help fund a play written…
Left to right: David Taylor (Friends of Hebden Bridge Station); Molly Sunderland (Hebden Bridge Local History Society); Jim Strom, Frank Woolrych and Graham Ramsden (Pennine Horizons).
In 1926 the wall along Church Street was moved back two or three feet to provide extra road width, and a footpath was constructed between White Hart Fold and Rise Lane. A number of graves had to be moved in the process and screens were erected…
A Grade 2 listed dating from 1897, the Town Hall is a Victorian building with a rich history having previously being used as the local fire station and council offices. In 2010 the Hebden Bridge Community Association acquired The Town Hall from…