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View from Birchcliffe Road down to the junction of Bridge Gate and Keighley Road.

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Situated on the corner of Keighley Road and Bridge Gate, this is one of the oldest buildings in Hebden Bridge.

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The "White Lion" was orginally built as a private residence for the King family around 1657, and was known as Kings Farm. It became a pub and posting house in the mid 1700's. It is reported that the composer F Liszt stayed there in 1840. The pub had…

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Site of the former White horse Inn and Bannisters Farm.

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Site of the former White horse Inn and Bannisters Farm.

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The buildings on the right are part of the White Lion and the cobbles going up to the left join onto Birchcliffe Road, now blocked off at the top other than for pedestrians. Prior to demolition of the buildings at the bottom in 1959 Keighley Road…

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Re-alignment of the junction of Commercial Street and Keighley Road nearly complete. Prior to this Commercial Street ran to the door of the White lion and then turned left to go down Bridgegate or right to join Keighley Road. The open road seen here…

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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.

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From the Square looking up to Keighley Road; on the left Bridge Mill, used by Chorlton Bros., Wholesale Clothiers, and beyond that the White Lion and opposite it the junction of Bridge Gate with Commercial Street before it was re-aligned 1964/65 to…

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Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.
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