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Poster offering a cheap trip to Hull in open wagons! At 3 shillings (15p) it wouldn't have seemed cheap to a textile worker on 15 shillings a week. However the Leeds Mercury reported that "people flocked from the hills and adjacent country including…

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Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Junction of Burnley Road with Station Road, Hebden Bridge. Photo dated 28/4/52. Below the arm pointing to the station the former Gas Works at…

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Tinted lithograph of Whitely Arches by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway' published in 1845. The valley is so narrow at this point with the river, canal and turnpike all squeezed into the valley bottom that with the…

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In the foreground the station warehouse and sidings and above them across Calder Holmes is Crossley Mill.

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Looking up the valley with the chimney of Calderside Mill next to Whiteley Arches top centre. On the left houses on Stubbing Holme under construction and to their right Stubbing Holme Dyeworks.

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Tinted lithograph of the station by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway, published in 1845. This section of the line had opened in October 1840.

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Showing the rear of the 'up' Manchester Platform across the viaduct. The platforms not only extended across the viaduct but overhung it supported by massive brackets as seen here. This was not without incident and on more than one occasion flags and…

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c.1912. In the foreground the large station warehouse which had been extended in 1884 and the sidings. The warehouse was demolished in 1969 following serious fire damage but goods facilities had been withdrawn in 1966.

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Goods facilities at the station were withdrawn in 1966 and the warehouse was let for general storage including by Moderna Blankets were. It was badly damaged by fire in 1969 as seen here and subsequently demolished. The site is now the station car…

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The junction of Cragg Road, New Road and Scout Road. The houses of Royal Fold are on the right.

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Approaching Mytholmroyd Railway Station, 1987
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