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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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Rebuilding the bridge over the Rochdale canal at Moderna east of Mytholmroyd.

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West End looking towards New Road. Date unknown but the car has a post-1921 Leeds registration number. From the far end the shops are: first three Blackburn Ironmongers; Haighs Music Shop; Westerman's Photographic Studio; Cockcrofts and Watsons. On…

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Circa 1900. Foster Mill, owned by Redman Bros, was part of the Hebden Estate Company. William Henry Cockroft designed the Methodist Chapel. Moss Lane on the hillside leads to Heptonstall Road. Top left is Cross Lanes Chapel with the Manse on the…

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The canal is unusable, Mount Zion Church is being demolished, depressing times.

The chapel was opened in 1887, but by 1960 it was suffering from dry rot. It closed in August 1960 and was demolished in 1970.

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As we come down the hillside and along Heptonstall Road we pass Cross Lane Chapel (United Methodists) on the right of the picture. Further down the road we approach Queens Terrace and Albion Terrace.

On the left of the picture, beyond the three…

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Situated between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. Demolished around due to dry rot.

In 1873 Daniel Jones Crossley moved into his newly built Falling Royd House along with his wife and 2 sons. The wages book for the servants lists a cook, and three…

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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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The bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Fallingroyd, between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, was replaced by this tunnel in 1986 when the dangerous bend in the road over the canal was re-aligned.

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View from Wood Top across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, is wedged between, on the right Victoria Mill, occupied for many years by F. & H. Sutcliffe who manufactured portable wooden buildings, and on its left…

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Could this have been part of the 1911 Coronation celebrations?

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1937, Colden gala: From left to right
Ethel Smith(nee Platt) Molly Baskerville, Douglas Crabtree, Shirley Burton, Gala Queen Joyce Greenwood, Joyce Sutcliffe, Dennis Burton, Unknown, Greta Sutcliffe, Joyce Sunderland.

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Decorated horse-drawn float. On the pavement in front of Riverside School.

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Parade coming from Market Street to Bankfoot, possibly celebrating George V's Coronation. Card addressed to Mr J Stansfield, Melbourne St Hebden Bridge. Sent by S Pickles. General banners and horse pulling a "Golden Horse" (a model of the Gold State…

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See 00152 - 00159; 170 - 175; 223 - 225.

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Gala Queen - Nellie Speak, later Mrs Dawson. Attendants from left to right - Ida Burton, Clara Sutcliffe, Nellie Sutcliffe, Margaret Shaw, Alma Riley, Alice Greenwood, Norman Parker and Jonathan Forest. They had just got down from the float.
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