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Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire

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Heckmondwike maps

Historic maps of Heckmondwike and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Heckmondwike maps

Heckmondwike map

Historic map of Heckmondwike

West Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire

Heckmondwike map

Historic Map of any Heckmondwike postcode

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Heckmondwike books

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Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
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Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
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Heckmondwike books
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Memories of Heckmondwike

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Cinemas in the 1950s

In the 1950s there were two cinemas, 'The Pavilion' and 'The Palace' and every Christmas there was the famous Heckmondwike Illuminations which ran for the full length of the town and attracted thousands of visitors from a wide area. For many years my grandfather George Arthur Fisher ran a greengrocer's stall on the market.

Shared on 28 October 2008

Heckmondwike in the early 1960s

I remember the market so well, it was the heart of Heckmondwike. You could buy anything from it, including clothes, meat and veg. The pork pies sold there were beautiful, and the beef dripping. I remember buying a dress from Rothery's stall, she let me take it home to try on. It was the height of fashion for me then, in... [more]

Shared on 16 January 2009 by Jan Mason.

West Yorkshire memories

Royal Hotel

Does anyone remember the Royal Hotel in Batley, it was on a corner I think of Bradford Road and a road that went up a very steep hill to a village. Lived there from 1963-1965 and went to Park Road School. Looking for a photo of the pub if anyone has one. Remember traffic lights being outside on the corner and... [more]

Shared on 21 January 2009 by Sandra Browne.

LIFE IN BATLEY 1938 to 1948 royel navy to1955 to New ZEALAND 1956 royal new zealand navy to 1962to1988 new zealand prison service retired now resided in westaustralia andthat is another story w a clark BCL02059@bigpond.net.au

THE WAR YEARS WAR WEPONSWEEK ANDALLTHEWAR SAVINGS WEEKS VE NIGHT VJ NIGHTSWORKING AT THE BUS COMPANY IN THE SAVEL TOWN DEP OF THE YORKSHIRE WOOLEN DISTRICT TRANSPORT THE ARMY CADET CORP AT THE WARICK ROAD SCHOOL & THE DRILL SHED ON BRADFORD ROAD

Shared on 06 January 2008 by Arnold Clark.

rosies

does any one remember rosies cheap shop on commercial street we all used to go there for our cheap things

Shared on 10 November 2007 by Gillian Walker.

Hare Park Terrace

My uncle and aunt, Frank and Lilian Simpson (nee Wilson)used to live over looking the Spen Valley in a terraced house on a hill at the bottom of which was Rawfolds Mill. Is the photo H199022 this road and is the wall on left the entrance to the terrace houses? If not, is there a map showing this terrace,... [more]

Shared on 11 October 2009 by Eunice Wilson.

Roberttown Infants School

It sits opposite Roberttown community centre and it used to be a school but it's been renovated now to an apartment block. Luckily, it still resembles my old infants school - I live in America now but I have such fond memories of my childhood growing up in Roberttown. This was before Roberttown Grange was built too, I think that was... [more]

Shared on 22 June 2009 by Gillian Walker.

Birstall life, 1970

Does anybody remember Clifford the milkman, he had a barrel in a yard that he used as a dog kennel in the village. Or the Co-op in the village, I think it was that sold record players and I  think shirts folded up, and kept in drawers behind the counter. I was 4 at the time of these memories. The dry... [more]

Shared on 27 October 2008 by Patricia Breakell.

Extracts From Heckmondwike & West Yorkshire books

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Yorkshire Living Memories

The pavements of Market Street were crowded with pram-pushing mothers shopping for the week's provisions. Another of the region's many woollen manufacturing towns, Heckmondwike still exhibits the same no-nonsense, down-to-earth air which characterises this part of the county.

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Yorkshire Living Memories

Busy market stalls cluster around the Victorian clock-topped monument in the Market Square of Heckmondwike on a summer afternoon. The Red Lion public house is on the right, while the factory chimney in the background is a reminder of the town's industrial base.

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West Yorkshire Photographic Memories

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion and the Brown Cow. Another popular place in the winter months was George Scott's blacksmiths shop. The forge lit up the whole street at night-time.

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