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Hyundai ship yard - DEP00196
Broadbent centre Lathe - one of 4 installed.
Computer Controlled Lathe. - DEP00195
Derek Pollard with the lathe in the fitting shop of Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd in 1998.
Aerial view of Mytholmroyd - DEP00194
Showing the outline of the goit to the waterwheel at Grange Mill.
Calder Terrace, Mytholmroyd - DEP00190
This stone wall shows evidence of where the sluice gate was situated that fed water from the River Calder to the old goit that in turn fed water to the reservoir at Grange Mill, Mytholmroyd. It is because of this that the end house of Calder Terrace…
Ada Arden in Hebden Bridge - DEP00188
The café was owned in the 1950s by Charlie Hyman and Mrs. Hyman. Their niece Dorothy Hyman was an Olympic runner. Ada Arden lived at Shawcroft Hill, Pecket Well. She was a war widow, her husband, George Thomas Arden is buried in Thailand at Chungkai…
School holidays - DEP00187
Derek Pollard ready for work on Mr John Butterworth's Old Town Hall Farm, c1950.
Acre Mill Canteen Staff, Old town - DEP00186
The BBC broadcast a "Workers Playtime" from the canteen in the 1950s.
Ada Arden in Hebden Bridge - DEP00185
Ada (nee Middleton) was Lily Young's sister and Derek's mother-in-law. Her husband, George Thomas Arden is buried in Thailand at Chungkai War Cemetery next to the bridge overthe River Kwai. He was in RAF 84 Squadron.
Acre Mill Canteen Staff - DEP00184
The BBC broadcast a Worker's Playtime from the canteen in the 1950s. Part of the mill can be seen in the background. Lily Young is front row left hand side, back row left hand side is Mrs Gough whose husband worked in the mill..