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The Hare and Hounds Inn is in the foreground and Acre Mill in the background. The mill was originally built as a textile mill but was taken over by Cape Asbestos in 1939. The company moved to Westmorland in the 1970s leaving a legacy of crippling…

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Taken from Badger Lane, Blackshaw Head

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The tram terminus. The building on the left is on the corner of Holme Street. The shop bearing the name Spencer & Nicholl was later demolished to widen the junction with Bridge Gate. Queens Terrace is towards the top of the picture.

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The Little School on the Moors

An Upper Calder Valley school enjoyed unusual celebrity status in the 1950s when it claimed to be the smallest in Yorkshire.

Following a story in the press that Snilesworth School, Northallerton - with six pupils…

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Looking down New Road. The railway station building is on the right above the roofs of Royal Fold.

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Front row, third from right, small boy with white collar is Donald Sunderland

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Soldier on left is Sam Sunderland, Duke of Wellington's regiment.

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Rascal the dog was owned by Walshaw gamekeepers employed by Lord Savile.  He was stuck down a fox hole for days and eventually rescued unharmed.  The gamekeeper at the front of this picture is Fred Sayer senior.

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