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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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Midgley Road, Mytholmroyd. Built at a cost of £2,500, the chapel opened in 1882. Dryrot forced its closure in 1960 and there was a n amalgamation with Scout Road Wesleyan Methodist Church.

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Postcard addressed to Miss Eliza Stott, postmarked October 15 1908, with the message 'Many happy returns of your birthday, with love'.

F & H Sutcliffe Mill and offices is centre right of picture, with the awning to the railway platform to the…

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Shows Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge Parish Churches

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On back - Annie Joy, daughter of Mary (McDonald) Joy. Also - Addressed to Mr J.A. Wallin, Iam sending you this postcard so that you not forget what we are like. It isn't a good one as I was so silly as to moveand spoil it. We are in our garden. Yours…

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Merry Weather fire engine, named 'Alderman Pickles', of Todmorden Fire Service, heads a parade of engines. Photo taken in Cragg Vale, probably in the 1920s.

On 13 April 1923 the Todmorden & District News reported:

FIRE ENGINE TESTED,…

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Cragg Hall was the centre for many social events. It is interesting to note that Miss Clara Butt stayed at Cragg Hall when she sung at the Victoria Hall in Halifax. Henry Ainley the actor stayed there more than once. Melbourne Inman the billiard…

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The Hall is situated just above the A646 opposite the station and the former Mayroyd Mill.

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Formerly AT305. Buttress Brink, was a warren of dwellings on different levels at the bottom of the Buttress, off Old Gate opposite the Hole-in-the-Wall Inn. Occupants had to walk through a gloomy ground floor tunnel lit by gas lamps, climb steps set…

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At the bottom of The Buttress opposite 'The Hole in the Wall' Buttress Brink was a warren of apartments and demolished in the 1960s.

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At the bottom of The Buttress opposite 'The Hole in the Wall' Buttress Brink was a warren of apartments and demolished in the 1960s.

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At the bottom of The Buttress opposite 'The Hole in the Wall' Buttress Brink was a warren of apartments and demolished in the 1960s.

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At the bottom of the Buttress opposite 'The Hole in the Wall' Buttress Brink was a warren of apartments and demolished in the 1960s. Seen here is Buttress climbing it and Royd Terrace.

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On the right the Hole-in-theWall pub and on the left the tenements of Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s.

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Buttress Brink was a warren of dwellings near the end of Old Bridge and facing the old Hole-in-the-Wall Inn. When the buildings were scheduled for demolition many said they should be preserved, but no-one wanted to live there.
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