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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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The lady and gentleman are Mr and Mrs Crossley Ashworth, and the children are Alice and Thomas Ashworth.

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In 1813 they laid the foundation stone of a small church at Marshaw Bridge. The building was completed 1815. There was accommodation for 250, but it soon became inadequate and was in a state of disrepair.
1838 New church commenced.
1839 Church of St.…

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The houses in the left foreground are opposite the Marina. The two storey building being the Railway Hotel, the right hand end of the building next to it is Croft House. The tall chimney to the right will be at Crossley Mill.

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Savile Road climbs up the hillside, the River Calder is in the foreground.

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On the far hillside the newly built houses on the Banksfield Estate, built as post-war housing, date this photo to around 1948

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The town has changed a good deal since this photo was taken. Several of the mills have gone, along with the Bridge Lane houses, running from bottom left to right. Looking at the Birchcliffe area, centre right, a good many more house have been built.…

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The New Church was built in 1854. It contains a fine Italian painting of the "Last Supper".

The Old Church was originally built in the 13th century, but was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries. The two churches are extremely unusual in that…

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Bankfoot House on the left and Mill on the right.

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The double-fronted shop in the centre was a grocer's shop run for many years by Nancy Swain.

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This photo features the newly built (1875) Prospect Terrace, the space to the left of it is where Nazebottom Baptist Church will be built in 1908. The extremely tall chimney was for Calderside Mill. The houses centre right are Thistle Bottom.

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The farmhouse was originally on the other side of the road, but it was in the way of the railway so it was demolished and this 'compensation' house was built. Above one of the windows is the word 'Dairy'. Latterly the house was used by the Manager of…

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HEPTONSTALL
According to an old deed, in the early part of the 17th century there was a Cloth Hall, the property of John Sunderland , of Horshold.
But the glory of Heptonstall is the old church, or rather it is sad to write, the ruins of the old…

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Burnley Road at the top of Brearley Lane was the site of the Evercreme Toffee Works. On every 'Toyplane' toffee was printed a letter from the word 'Toyplane'. When you had collected all the letters you could send in the wrappers in exchange for a…
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