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A consignment of Thornbers hatching eggs for export being delivered to BOAC (merged with BEA 1974)

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Stubbings Drive bridge over the Rochdale Canal in Hebden Bridge looking east.

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PNH00700. Vintage coach at Hippins Bridge near Blackshawhead. Date unknown.

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Vintage coach, PPC 275, at Hippins Bridge near Blackshawhead. Date unknown.

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PNH00644. Paddle gear at Todmorden.

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Bridge between Walsden and Summit.

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Hebden Bridge Marina. The horse, pictured here with Carol South, was used for towing a pleasure boat along a section of the canal for a period of several years.

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PNH00637. Hebden Bridge. Mayroyd Lock No. 8 looking towards Princess Bridge on Station Road.

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Rakehead viaduct under construction. 15th January 1970.

The motorway, which was first proposed in the 1930s, and originally conceived as two separate routes, was opened in stages between 1971 and 1976, with construction beginning at Pole Moor and…

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Now the site of Fielden Factors. Harry Ingham stored buses here. The brown corrugated roof (the tin shop) was Blackburn's car repairers, is now (2015) Bentley's Mobility Shop.

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The now disused warehouse a little to the south of the station with the site of former sidings now car parking for Eureka Children's Museum.

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The high level access was built in the mid-1880s when the station was considerably enlarged including sidings, lines and platforms to the front of the station now, as seen here, car parking and access road to Eureka Children’s Museum. To the right a…

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The Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway, later a part of the MR, between Shipley and Colne opened through Keighley in 1847 giving the town its first station. The station seen here dates from 1883 and is on the opposite side of Bradford Road to the…

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The station on the Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne opened at the same time as the section of the line between Shipley and Keighley in March 1847. The station on its last day as seen here was near the Bingley Three Rise…

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The state of the art Leeds Station sitting atop a labyrinth of Victorian vaults and arches known as the Dark Arches. The surrounding area has been further re-developed since this photo and there is now also a passenger foot access to the station…

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On the right the imposing general Post Office building which still stands today although no longer the post Office. On the left just out of view to the front of the tram was the entrance to Wellington Station whilst looking ahead is Wellington Street…

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The Station Car Park at the top of Station Road in 2013. This had been the site of the large two bay Station Warehouse which was demolished in 1969 following serious fire damage. The formal landscaped car park was constructed in 1994.

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Walkley's Clog Mill, Bridge Gate and the Rochdale Canal. Postcard dated 1990.

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The sign says Death Trap, there were many accidents here because of the sharpness of the turns on and off the bridge.

The tramcar to Hebden Bridge crossing Falling Royd Bridge is No 107, constructed at the Halifax Corporation Tramways workshops in…
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