Hebden Bridge - 1979

8mm film from 1979 filmed by my Grandfather, featuring my grandmother. A fascinating look around Hebden Bridge and a great comparison of over 40 years past
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[@sallybutton6237]

Thank you ! I stayed at Hebden bridge in 1982 when I was seventeen, this video brings back so many memories, I was there with my then boyfriend & stayed in a beautiful little b&b at “Slack Top”..it was only for a few days but it was such a lovely time I’ll never forget. We travelled up from Essex on a Yamaha 1100..the time of my life, sadly in the distant past now along with my youth, I never thought I’d ever get old..haha..such happy days well spent 🥀

[@carriem362]

It's kind of sweet these people waving at us out of the past. I'm visiting Hebden Bridge & this was cool to see :)

[@africadreamin]

How many times have I driven up from the Rossendale Valley then over the tops from Cliviger to Hebden Bridge in the sixties working on tractors and hay balers through the summer, miking machines and water bowls in the winter, memories.

[@johnfrancis5673]

Great video!

[@JaneDoe-zk4uk]

Oh, wonderful, I drive all those roads most days and it hasn't changed too much! They start out at Burnley, drive through Cliviger and up over the tops, above Todmorden (not featured in the film), through Blackshaw Head and Colden and then Heptonstall, (these days the road in Heptonstall is cobbled but in the film it has tarmac over it) and finally on to Hebden Bridge. When they leave it looks like they are taking the Keighley Road, which takes you to Haworth, where the Brontë family lived.

[@rogermellie8068]

It hasn't changed much, true. It is Mereclough where they turn left at the Kettledrum pub and along Long Causeway to Blackshawhead. Not quite Cliviger. You would carry on straight down the hill from the Kettledrum on Red Lees Road to get to Cliviger.

[@Nick-bp7jf]

That brought back some memories for me. Feeling quite melancholy now. I would have been 16 back then. I lived for a time on Crown Street.

[@pershaankhan1662]

Went to hedben bridge in the early 90s with school. Had many vists since, a fantastic place.

[@caleblindley7142]

Great video, not much has changed if you drive round today.

[@Guytarist38granada]

Touching testimony, Great, thank you for sharing ! At that time, my uncle John was a car mechanic at Vauxhall garage there. Maybe the one shown by the 12'

[@Nick-bp7jf]

I remember Wilf and Trevor Shepherd well.

[@gilljames6485]

at 2.50 the farm I lived in when I was small - pottery farm , looking pretty much as I remember it, before it got ''done up''.

[@RideBikes_Walkplaces]

Thanks for the share. Awesome footage.

[@danielhaslam5179]

Phenomenal footage 👏

[@jamus9_games967]

Thank you so much. My grandfarther was very enthuiastic about film back in the 70s. If he were around today he would have loved comments like this.

[@shakerson]

@@jamus9_games967 If he were around today, he would have taught you not to leave hateful comments about trans people all over the internet and live your own life.

[@Alanhock75]

My home town

[@ShaunMurray63]

Great little film , I live in Todmorden just up the road from Hebden Bridge.

[@paulmonaghan311]

Bloody Hell - I'm sure Delboy & Rodney Trotter drove past @ 10.46

[@peterdockrill9653]

Advertisement for rothmans cigs 10.21

[@GanachoJr]

I live here despite being italian

[@davidhartley9115]

I’m from here and still live here for 26 years and I’ve been trying to get out of it lol it’s a dive when you look deeper under the surface you realise what a shithole it really is. It’s a small drug capital this place. When I hear of my 15 year old cousin that his 13 and 14 year friends at football are on cocaine and weed then nah not good. It’s a heavy drug town even without the hippy southerners

[@elwolf8536]

Still nicer than sowerby bridge 😅

[@pakocards]

Looking at this video you realise the town hasn’t changed for the better. Nice to remember Valet Stores , Bankfoot as it was. Big drug problems there now. A hideout for those living outside society norms.

[@rogermellie8068]

I moved back to Burnley in 2021 after 12 years in Hebden. Couldn't stand all the champagne socialists and wealthy plastic hippies from Manchester and down south. Glad to be back amongst "reyt folk"