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Crossing the picture is the railway line as it goes over the road to Bacup at Gauxholme. Looking towards Littleborough, Copperas House Bridge over the Rochdale Canal can be seen further along the line. The former Mason's Arms can be seen in close…

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Stoodley Pike refers to a 1400 feet (400m) hill although it is better known for its 121feet (37m) monument which was designed by local architect James Green and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War.

The monument replaced an earlier…

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The car park in the foreground is on the site of the former White horse Inn. Looking across St George'd Square the top of the tall building was a water tank.

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The car park in the foreground is on the site of the former White horse Inn. Looking across St George's Square the top of the tall building was a water tank.

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Looking down on Market Street up the valley towards Todmorden. The landmark chimney of Calder Mill in the centre, much of the mill itself was destroyed by fire in November 1964.

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Looking down on Market Street up the valley towards Todmorden. The landmark chimney of Calder Mill in the centre, much of the mill itself was destroyed by fire in November 1964.

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In the centre is the Co-op Car Park. Beehive Mill is bottom left and the former Neptune pub, now two dwellings, bottom right.

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In the valley Hebden Bridge Parish Church of St James the Great, out of the town centre at Mytholm, and above Heptonstall Church of St Thomas the Apostle.

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Clearly a mill town. In the foreground is Pallis House and to its left smoke from a train in the cutting and above the smoke Holme House. On the left hillside Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel and dominant in the top centre Foster Mill.

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Clearly a mill town. In the foreground is Pallis House and to its left smoke from a train in the cutting and above the smoke Holme House. On the left hillside Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel and dominant in the top centre Foster Mill.

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c1970. The top of the tower like building centre left contained a water tank for the sprinkle system for the Co-op building just out of view on the left.

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Part of Bridge Mill is on the left, Stubbing School is to the top.

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Bottom right Calder Holmes playing field. On the left housing climbing the Birchcliffe hillside and top centre Chiserley.

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The storey flats on the left have been replaced with private housing. Snow still in the wall bottoms on Wadsworth Moor.

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The church well to the west of the town centre at Mytholm.

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Opened in 1921.

The History of Cinema-going in the Upper Calder Valley

ONCE there were six cinemas in the Upper Calder Valley. Now there’s just one - the Picture House in Hebden Bridge.

Not all were purpose-built (shows were held in venues…
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