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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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The railway track has been straightened, but the line of the infamous Charlestown curve can clearly be seen. Oakville Road is on the right.

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Colden Road, which runs from Mytholm to Jack Bridge, can be seen rising through the woodland. The "road" is known localley as the "Ragley".

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Taken on the first flight over the Calder Valley. Alice Longstaff was a passenger.

This is the newspaper report of the flight, probably written by Bernard Ingham, who was a cub reporter at the time and was also on the fight:

FLIGHT OVER THE…

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The church of St Thomas a Becket was built around the middle of the 13th century.

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The wooden 'city' was built to house the workmen and their families employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs, 1900 to 1912.

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Children from the encampment built to house the workmen and their families employed in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs, 1900 to 1912.

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Workers in Dawson City, which was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The ‘City’ housed many hundreds of men along with their wives and children. It was built in 1900 near Draper Corner, below Heptonstall Slack, as a settlement and depot for…

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Originally described as a cottage, this was rather a controversial building due to its size and grandeur. The foundation stone was laid in May 1903.

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This building, believed to have come from Dawson City, was situated at the end of Valley Road, opposite the market. At one time it housed the office of a coal merchants. It was destroyed by fire in 1996. Above right Stubbing School and left St.…

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The park is in the foreground and British Furtex in the centre. BT061JTS.

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The goit beside Furtex Mill. The mill has now been demolished and replaced by housing.
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