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NEWS
  • Hebden Royd Council rejects new plans for housing on Linden Mill Bank (13 Jan)

  • Listen to Glyn Hughes' afternoon talks on Radio 4 which on 12th Jan featured Hebden Bridge. Glyn talks with John Billingsley, David Fletcher, Chris Ratcliffe, Elaine Connell, canal boat dwellers and others.
  • Job vacancy at Laughing Gravy - 9 Jan
  • Ted Hughes' house for sale
    - BBC news - 5 Jan

Christmas Day  2004

Christmas Day 2004: snow!

 Carols in the Square: Christmas Eve 2004

Carols in the Square: Christmas Eve 2004

Green-washing
When a company planning to build environmentally friendly eco-houses in the Pennines took chainsaws to nearby woodland containing protected trees, locals in Hebden Bridge cried foul. They say the developers are guilty of 'greenwashing' - just pretending to be environmentally friendly to get planning permission - from Radio 4's You and Yours site
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Background info

Unity Street Tin Tabernacle, former weavers' strike HQ, faces demolition - update 3 Dec - old photos added (6 Dec) Tin Tabernacles

TEN YEARS ON: there has still been no arrest for the terrible murder of Lindsay Rimer in 1994. Police make their annual appeal for information - but just how well have they investigated the case? See also Hebweb feature

HB Fireworks 2004

HB Firework Display
Slideshow of images
Saturday, November 6, 2004

More News

Discussion Forum

There is considerable discussion about unwanted or ill thought out developments now going on all over Hebden Bridge. If you have a view about this, the coming elections or some other topic, use our discussion area

"What a clear, informative, friendly site. It's also inspiring to see people working together to create community - where HB leads the rest will follow?" - Message to Hebweb

THE LEGACY OF ACRE MILL
The Hebden Bridge Web has a own ongoing feature recounting the story and history of this tragedy
  • Asbestos: the Legacy of Acre Mill
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    A Race Against Time

    A Race Against Time

    Video/DVD documentary featuring Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd from Nick Wilding - more info

    Alice's Story

    The story of Alice Longstaff and her Hebden Bridge Photographer's Studio is available for online ordering - compiled by Issy Shannon and Frank Woolrych. More info

    Published by Pennine Pens, Gone Walkabout continues to feature in the local bestsellers' list.

    Anna Carlisle - £6 - buy online now - More info

    Donald Crossley, childhood friend of Ted Hughes (pictured below right with brother Gerald and sister Olwyn) solves a poetic puzzle in the latest issue of Milltown Memories (No 10)

    Ted, Gerald and Olwyn

    Walking by Hardcastle Crags with Ted Hughes - latest online poem by award-winning local writer, Glyn Hughes (14 Dec). More poems by Glyn are in our Features Section

    Stop Green Tops demo

    The Stop Green Tops Demo

    Green Tops meeting - a "shambles"
    Questions asked by the community.
    Background
    (25th Nov)

    Demonstration against Green Tops and inappropriate development in Hebden Bridge - photos and info. Saturday, October 30, 2004

    BATTLE OF THE MILL POND
    Photos | Video Clips | Messages | Background

    Trust me - I am a developer

    "We thoroughly recommend the community website (Hebweb) for the passion and the humour with which the residents are tackling the situation." (Corporate Watch)

    Save Salem Community Centre

    "Step one: bulldoze an area of ancient woodland and kill every living thing. Step two: build shoddy detached houses of no architectural merit whatsoever"
    - written well before recent events by John Morrison in "Milltown: an Unreliable History". Read more

    Demonstration to save Salem Community Centre - Sat, Oct 23 - more photos

    MP does Street Art
    Chris McCafferty MP opens Street Art Exhibition today - more photos

    GONE WALKABOUT

    Hebden Bridge History Group - see dozens of photos of old Hebden Bridge
    Hebweb Online Columns

    JOHN MORRISON

    JILL ROBINSON

    • BERRINGDEN BROW: Memoirs of Single Mother with a Crush- a novel by local author Jill Robinson published as a book by Pennine Pens. Read online samples



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