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  • Collection: Mick Chatham Collection

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This large residential hotel, originally built in 1840 to serve the adjacent railway and formerly linked to the station platform via a footbridge, was badly damaged by fire in 1997, but was later restored. This photo was taken early 1998 before the…

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A Grade 2 listed building
Scaitcliffe Hall is beautifully situated in a picturesque part of the Burnley valley. The south part was re-built in 1666 and the north part in 1738, but it was completely pulled down and re-erected in 1833. It is now a…

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On 7th April 1906, there was a fatal accident near the Derby Inn, Rishworth.

A horse pulling a trap down the hill past the Derby Inn, Rishworth was frightened when some sheep ran across the road. The horse backed into a wall which collapsed,…

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There was a camp at Silkstone near Barnsley during both the first and the second World Wars.

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Site opposite the former Stansfield View Hospital prior to the building of a housing estate.

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Site opposite the former Stansfield View Hospital prior to the building of a housing estate.

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To be found at West View Park, Halifax, off Warley Road.

The land was given to the town by local mill-owners Henry Charles McCrea (Mayor of Halifax 1869-1871) and Enoch Robinson (Mayor of Halifax 1904-1905). The park was opened in 1897.

The war…

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St Luke’s Hospital was built around 1897 as the Poor Law Union infirmary for the sick poor in Halifax. During World War I it became a military hospital. After the abolition of the Poor Laws in the 1920s the hospital was eventually transferred to the…

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The parish church was built in 1847 in Early English style. It was badly damaged in the 2015 floods but has since re-opened. The Sunday school in front of the church was reduced to one storey and is now used as a community hall and meeting spaces…

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Postcard from 1939. Situated on the south facing side of the Cornholme valley. The present house is divided into east and west.

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The balcony of the Pike can be reached from the west facing side via a dark spiral staircase.

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Photo taken of the western facade.
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