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Turvin Mill was built in 1808. By 1833 it had a 10 HP water wheel and employed 57 workers (of which 31 were children). The water in the brook was supplemented by a catchwater drain half a mile long which collected the overflow from Whiteholm…

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Willy Wilkinson who worked for Thornbers.

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3rd May, 1996. Celebrating the re-opening of the Rochdale Canal through Sowerby Bridge with the construction of Tuel Lane Lock, now the deepest inland waterway lock in the UK at 19ft 8½inches, connecting to the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

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Highgate can be seen on the left. Photo taken 3rd May 1959.

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Sutcliffe Farrar and Company Ltd., Mount Pleasant Mill., Mytholmroyd. Trouser making machinists. c2012 prior to
factory closure.

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Cornholme Methodians won the cup at Turf Moor. Donald Dean (committee member) Roy Wadsworth, Geoff Newsome (goalie) Wallace Winter, Jack Nesbit, Stanley Coulton, Joe Jackson, Gordon Whitehead, Billy Coulton, Rev Arthur Hunt, Stephen Crowther, Will…

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Picture of an unknown team, probably taken just before the war. Player standing far left is Geoffrey Gordon Greenwood.

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Mytholmroyd Football Team, photograph taken in front of Mytholmroyd Bowling Club pavilion.

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Second on back row Tom Sunderland

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Pictured here with the Major Oak, a large English oak tree near the village of Edwinstowe in the heart of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept. It weighs an…

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Bridesmaids at a wedding at St John's, Cragg Vale. The bridesmaid on the right is Yvonne Broadbent, nee Holdsworth.

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Skeleton in the chapel of 1797.

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A school and preaching room opened here in 1841 but they soon outgrew it and a new school and chapel opened in 1848 at Inchfield Bottom. This too proved too small and another chapel was built in 1861 as seen here.

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Possibly 1950s. Part of Crossley Mill is on the left.

Interestingly, in the 1970s there were 5 petrol stations in Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, now there is only one.

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Trig point near Bridestones, Todmorden.
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