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Undated postcard. The Church foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small octagonal…

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Undated postcard showing an 1849 engraving of the church. The foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. Enlarged in 1887, the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small…

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Postcard with 1938 postmark. Still a busy small mill town! Scarbottom Mill with its mill dam is to the right of centre, with Thornber's poultry sheds to the left. On the skyline towards the left is Midgley Methodist Chapel.

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Undated between the wars postcard looking down the Calder Valley in the Halifax direction. Scout Road School can be seen left of centre, and to the left of that Scout Bottom Farm and cottages.

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Undated postcard but Calder High School, top centre, is under construction and although work on the school started before the war, it did not open until 1950, it was the West Riding's first comprehensive school. Redman's Scarbottom Mill, with its…

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Between the wars postcard. Diagonally to the left of St Michael's Church is the rear of the railway station with the overhanging timber buildings on the 'up' platform supported on stilts.

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Undated postcard but after erection of the War Memorial in 1922. Behind the Memorial is Grange Dean, now site of the Health Centre; note that the main road is still cobbled. The cobbles far right lead onto County Bridge.

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Looking in the Halifax direction with the junction onto County Bridge on the far right. The Halifax Corporation Tramway reached Mytholmroyd in 1901 and trams ceased running in 1936.

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Postcard postmarked 1913 looking in the Halifax direction. The Halifax Corporation Trams came to Mytholmroyd in 1901 and ceased running in 1936.

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The shops on the left have since been demolished.

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At the top of Colden Clough was Jack Bridge Mill. Production at the mill ceased early 20th century but it wasn't demolished until many years later. Colden School is to the left of the road. On the left of the picture you can just make out Broadstone…

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The ruined farmhouse on the moors above Haworth is believed to have been the setting for Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'. Postcard,

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Sir Bernard's brother farmed at Deerstones Farm, Triangle and Sir Bernard looked after the farm in August 1995 so that brother Derek could have a week's holiday. A neighbour helped out at milking time.

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Sir Bernard's brother farmed at Deerstones Farm, Triangle and Sir Bernard looked after the farm in August 1995 so that brother Derek could have a week's holiday. A neighbour helped out at milking time. The phonecall was not staged!

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Sir Bernard's brother farmed at Deerstones Farm, Triangle and Sir Bernard looked after the farm in August 1995 so that brother Derek could have a week's holiday. A neighbour helped out at milking time.

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Sir Bernard's brother farmed at Deerstones Farm, Triangle and Sir Bernard looked after the farm in August 1995 so that brother Derek could have a week's holiday. A neighbour helped out at milking time.

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Chairman of Hebden Royd Urban District Council, 1957/58

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1957 and Garnet was Chairman of Hebden Royd Urban District Concil, and the photo is taken in the Council Chamber, Hebden Bridge.

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Bernard and brother Derek, Derek is in the pram, in about 1936 at Albion Terrace, Hebden Bridge.

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This is where Sir Bernard started his career.

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Bernard with Charles Anson, former Queen's Press Secretary in Hebden Bridge in 1989 for a Walking Weekend.
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