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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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The original Salem Chapel, built 1885, replaced an earlier chapel built 1824 which only had seating for 750 with a schoolroom underneath. The new chapel had seating 1050. Falling membership after the Second World War meant eventual amalgamation with…

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The houses on the left-hand edge of the photo are Crowther Terrace.

Left of centre in the valley bottom is the mill complex of Upper and Lower Lumb Mills , and Lumb Bank is on the right, part way up the hill.

The road on the left of the photo…

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The shop on the right was both a grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).

The boy is Charles Taylor.

In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.

The photo…

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The building on the left is the rear of the "Shoulder of Mutton" Inn. The remnants of the steps down to the stepping stones had been saved and located outside a house adjacent to the pub but were lost in the flood prevention work in 2018. The…

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Playing outside the bank at the junction of Albert Street and Hope Street.

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As the tourist will plainly perceive a new church has been built, at a cost of £6666, and was consecrated October 26, 1854. But we cannot refrain from stating that the architect lamentably erred in planning the church in that particular style of…

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Gibson Mill began its life around 1803 as a water-powered spinning mill. Less than a hundred years later, it was called Lord Holme Mill, and part of a major tourist attraction. It was eventually left to and restored by the National Trust by Abraham…

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Possibly the oldest photograph of the town.

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Photo taken in the late 30s/early 40s

Mr H Potts, headmaster in the centre.
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