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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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Mytholmroyd Historical Society visited Halifax Parish Church, now Halifax Minster, 14 July 2006 with leader Geoffrey Washington

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Presented to the Chapel trustees by his wife.

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Outside unknown building. Can anybody identify?

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This picture of the interior of Mytholmroyd Parish Church, painted by Mr Joseph Mac Fall, Stationmaster and sometime churchwarden, was presented by the teachers and friends of the Sunday School on Christmas Day 1852 to the Rev. William Baldwin as a…

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Foster Holme. Nutclough Mill has been extended on one side only. The old Birchcliffe Chapel is in the centre towards the top of the picture, with High Hurst behind it.

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Nutclough Mill has just been extended upwards. The Birchcliffe hillside has yet to be developed, but the old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen near the top of the picture.

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View from Moss Lane probably early 1890s. On the hillside on the left the Stubbings estate built during the 1880s and climbing up the hill Cliffe Street and above that Blenheim Street. Nutclough Mill has extensions to left and right.

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Princes Bridge on Station Road over the Rochdale Canal with Machpelah Works above it. Date unknown but the bridge was widened following years of requests to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

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Birchcliffe Road at its junction with Commercial Street. The buildings on the left were demolished in 1959.

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Victoria Bridge carries Station Road over the Calder; it was built in 1855 replacing a timber trestle bridge built for the station in 1839/40. To the left of the weir is the wheelhouse for Mayroyd Mill. Just visible in the background Queens Terrace…

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Victoria Bridge carries Station Road over the Calder; it was built in 1855 replacing a timber trestle bridge built for the station in 1839/40. The weir was to direct water to the wheelhouse for Mayroyd Mill. Just visible in the background Queens…

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One of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. To the left of the station the trestle bridge carrying the station road over the Calder and left…

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Enlarged extract from one of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. Seen here the small station building on the 'Leeds line' is almost hidden…

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This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…

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The low white building to the right is Palace House or 'Pallisser's House', the home of the pallisser who looked after the fence or pallisade around the deer park which used to occupy the land now called Erringden. New Road is in the background. …

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Palace House or 'Pallisser's House', the home of the pallisser who looked after the fence or pallisade around the deer park which used to occupy the land now called Erringden.

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Nothing to do with a 'palace' but a derivation from Pallis House i.e. the house of the 'palliser,' the person responsible in the middle ages for maintaining the fence around Erringden Deer Park. The house is now demolished.

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General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.

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