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Postcard with August 1915 postmark. Not to be confused with 'Old' Cragg Hall. The New Hall, or Lower Cragg Hall to distinguish it from Old Cragg Hall, was enlarged and embellished around 1904 and was destroyed by fire in 1921 with a much smaller…

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Undated postcard. Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.

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Undated postcard 'Exclusive to Mytholmroyd Post Office'. Rochdale Canal; Redacre Mill Hotel; The Dusty Miller; Rochdale Canal.

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Undated postcard 'Exclusive to B Adams, Newsagent, 8 New Road, Mytholmroyd'. Mytholmroyd War Memorial; St Michael's Church; Shoulder of Mutton; Cragg Vale.

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On the left is the loop line used by slow trains so that faster trains could overtake them.

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Pictured here after de-manning in 1987. The wooden building held the lift.

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Looking up the line with the signal box on the left and the station building on the right.

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The main station building on the 'down' Leeds platform. The building is three storeys high and the Booking Office was on the ground floor. Passengers for the 'up' platform had to go upstairs to the second floor and then across a walkway under the…

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Timber Waiting Rooms on the 'up' Manchester Platform, on the left-hand is the 'Ladies Room, now demolished. To the right of the building is the access from the main building on the other platform with the Booking Office at ground level.

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Mytholmroyd Co-op circa 1910. From left, Robert Boulton, Percy Horsfall, Fred Haigh, Fred Stansfield, Lewis Ackroyd and Bob Hartley. Inside the boy is Harry Greenwood and a man nicknamed "Luggage" so called because he once ran from Hollock Lea to the…

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Postcard with April 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.

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Townscape prior to construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908 but after the arrival of the trams in 1901. On the hillside is Scout Road School and along the bottom the Rochdale Canal.

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Postcard, with April 1910 postmark, caricaturing nightly chaos, presumably on a Saturday, when the last tram of the night left.

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The policeman is Harold Whiteley Oates who had served in the Royal Navy during the war https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/6467711

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Postcard with September 1914 postmark. Looking down Cragg vale to Dauber Bridge and Mytholmroyd beyond. In the days of the turnpike Dauber Bridge house, seen here, was a toll house.

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Halifax Corporation trams reached Mytholmroyd in 1901 and were withdrawn in 1936.

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Undated postcard showing the Church Institute Bowling Green 22 July 1911. Behind is St Michael's Church.

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Undated postcard but the image is prior to the construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908. Prominent left of centre is the Primitive Methodist Zion Chapel.

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Undated postcard. Taken from Daisy Bank looking across to Midgley Moor.
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