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HebWeb Features

Our feature pages are the more magazine type sections of HebWeb, and will be regularly updated as new information or links become available.

  • THIRTY YEARS OF THE HEBWEB: The summer of 2025 marked 30 years since HebWeb began. In 1995, the internet was just starting to take off, and few people knew what it was. Yet, Hebden Bridge was home to many forward-thinking artists, writers, musicians, and small business owners - precisely the kind of people who could see the potential of a site like HebWeb and help it thrive.

    Read the story of how the HebWeb started and the challenges it faced.

  • COVID AND LOCKDOWN: FIVE YEARS ON: On the early evening of Monday, 23 March 2020, the first Lockdown was announced. The HebWeb reported upon it daily with facts and figures from reliable sources. The HebWeb has now created this Covid Feature with info, links to the news from five years ago, George Murphy's Lockdown Diary, photos, charts and video. Read the Covid Feature.
  • HEBDEN BRIDGE HANDMADE PARADE - FROM 2008 - Hebden Bridge became vibrant and energised by the annual Handmade Parade, with thousands lining our sunny streets to watch all sorts of colourful and wonderful creations soar above their heads. See photos and info.
  • SLICING THROUGH THE VALLEY: Matt Hilton's memory of Hebden Bridge in the early 1980s. "The place had become something of a way station of the peculiar. In no other small declining Yorkshire textile town could you run into P. J. Proby, Bernard Ingham, Ken Campbell or Ted Hughes on the street. I passed the best and the worst of times there."
  • THE MAKING OF A TOWN HALL - read how the development of this groundmaking project was reported on the HebWeb from 2007 until 2012 when it opened.
  • ONE HOUR FROM HEBDEN BRIDGE - some of the fascinating places to visit, less than an hour's drive from Hebden Bridge; places many of us probably don't know.
  • HEBDEN BRIDGE HIPPIES - how the hippies changed Hebden Bridge from the 1970s.
  • THE BOXING DAY FLOODS 2015: video footage, photos, links and links to HebWeb new coverage.
  • TOUR DE FRANCE Oooh la la. The day that the Tour de France came to Hebden Bridge.
  • CHAINSAW TUESDAY: The Battle for the Mill Pond and its wet woodland - fighting in a small back street of Hebden Bridge
  • BRIDGE MILL AT 700: A potted history of Bridge Mill and Hebden Bridge
  • CRAIG WHITTAKER ON THE HEBWEB
  • DON'T READ THIS - the sacking of teachers Leonora Rustamova (Miss Rusty) and Steve Cann from Calder High School in 2009
  • BILLY HOLT - memories of this remarkable local character and writer by Frans van Schaik, Roy Stockdill and his son Vincent Holt - updated August, 2010
  • GARDEN STREET - Hebden Bridge Web coverage of the controversial Garden Street proposed development over the past few years.
  • ASBESTOS AND THE LEGACY OF ACRE MILL: Hundreds of people in the Hebden Bridge area have died from asbestos related cancers, mainly contracted from working at Acre Mill in the 50s and 60s - the UK's biggest industrial disaster.
  • IAN COATES, Riding round the world on a Honda
    - irregular reports from 2001 of Ian’s trip round the world.
  • JOHN MORRISON - milltown revisited and farewell to milltown
  • PACE EGG PLAY - as performed each Easter,
    history and photos, old and new
  • WILDLIFE in the Hebden Bridge region
  • TEN YEARS OF THE HEBDEN BRIDGE WEB
  • GIBSON MILL, Hardcastle Crags
    Renovated with cafe and exhibition centre, using alternative technology.

Poems by Glyn Hughes, first published on the Hebden Bridge Web