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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.

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The bus destination board shows the intermediate points on the route from Leeds: Dudley Hill, Halifax, Hebden Bridge.

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The lintel bears the initials J.B. (John Bentley) and the date 1578. The fine house beyond the arch is Whitehall, a farmhouse.

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Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.

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SD 92SE HEBDEN ROYD C.P. (off) SWINE MARKET LANE, SD 998235 Cragg Vale 3/266 Old Cragg Hall (formerly listed as Cragg Old Hall) 19.7.63 IIHouse, dated 1617. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. F-shaped plan, 5 divisions. 1st 2 formed by…

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Many changes have transformed the scene at Old Town, viewed here in the early years of the last century. The big mill an the right is Acre Mill, which was a weaving mill, later owned by Cape Asbestos; the smaller mill on the left of it was the…

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Heavy snow had prevented provisions being delivered to Blackshaw Head, so this team is delivering 'relief' supplies to Blackshaw Head Co-op. They have come up Ragley and have just passed Hudson Mill on the way to the Devil's Elbow.

Hebden Bridge…

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Outside the White Lion & Greyhound, Shade.
An early open top bus with external stairs at the rear to the upper deck and solid rubber tyres. Open top buses were not popular in winter and started to be replaced by covered top deck models from the…

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Albion Barker b. 1879 standing 5th from left.
Probably Unitarian Church outing to Hardcastle Crags c1900.

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The mill was occupied by the Calder Valley Engineering Company, owned by James Maud of Maud's Clog Soles.

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30th October 1920. An outing of 37 people from the Robin Hood Inn at Pecket Well to Keighley ended in disaster when their charabanc overturned on a bend coming down from Cock Hill to Oxenhope. Five people were killed and four seriously injured. The…

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Pace Eggers from Calder High School outside the Post Office in Holme Street, Hebden Bridge, late 1980s

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This is part of a painting looking from a field at Mulcture Hall towards Callis and Horsehold. The original is at Banksfield Museum, Halifax.

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Calderside Mill and Whiteley Arches. When it was built in 1842, at 300 feet the chimney was said to be the tallest in the area.

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Charity Demonstration Half the money raised went to the Mytholmroyd Nursing Association and the other half to the Royal Halifax Infirmary.
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