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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Sunnybank is one of the few remaining timber-built houses in the parish. It presents a quaint sight and a decaying one, especially on the north side. …

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Back row, 3rd from left James Sutcliffe Smith 1908~1972. Middle row, 4th from right Dorothy Smith nee Lowe 1907~2003. They married. James was brother to Graham Smith's grandfather Thomas Smith.

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

One of several old homesteads in Shibden valley. Staups dates back well over 300 years, for documentary evidence tells of a John Bentley compounding for…

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Postcard date stamped May 1916. Looking down the road from the canal bridge; over the river, past the Goods Yard and then over the railway and up to St Mary's Church. The church was built in 1873, closed in 1977 and its 126ft spire was demolished in…

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Post card with 1917 postmark. The foundation stone for the church 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…

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Postcard with 1917 postmark. This church, built in 1838 to replace a smaller church constructed in 1813, was paid for from the 'million pound fund'. An Act of Parliament allocated £1 million to build churches in the rapidly expanding industrial areas…

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Postcard with 1917 postmark. This church, built in 1838 to replace a smaller church constructed in 1813, was paid for from the 'million pound fund'. An Act of Parliament allocated £1 million to build churches in the rapidly expanding industrial areas…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The building is a fine, antiquated, ivy-clad, pointed gable house, the owner of which is Mr Richard Kershaw of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe and the present…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The name St Anne’s-in-the-Grove is usually associated with Southowram Church but the original title belongs to the residence situated further down the…

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View looking towards Springside from Lob Mill area, c1910.

The long wooden building by the canalside was originally a rope works, erected Jonas Clegg in 1887.

The buildings on the roadside have all disappeared, along with the place names: Nell Cote…

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LYRS 4330 - Sowerby Bridge Station - general view looking east in 1910 with unidentified Aspinall. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with canopies which were taken down after the Second World War.

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Following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 women were recruited to do many jobs previously done by men. Seen here a team of carriage cleaners posing for the camera at Sowerby Bridge Depot.

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Was thought to be Frank Charnley, but corrected to Arthur Sutcliffe, from Pecket Well. (See HB Times 22 and 29 Nov 1918)?

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Postcard dated December 1916.

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Oldest of local homesteads, rich with features illustrative of many centuries of house architecture internal and external, it is fitting that Shibden Hall…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Old Shelf Hall, a plain looking building some centuries old and ruinous, overlooks the entrance to the new hall, erected in 1860 by the late Mr Samuel…

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Service at Birchcliffe Chapel to commemorate Edward VII, who died 6th May, 1910.

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This cinema opened on New Road on 1st January 1912 and closed June 24th 1921. It stood on the site of the Memorial Gardens along with the UCP shop and the Black and White Cafe. Later the cinema became a billiard hall.

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Robinwood c1910, a panorama of industry and communications with the 13 arch Nott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley line, the so called Copy Pit Line. Robinwood Mill, built in 1834, and purchased by Fielden Bros. in 1844, became the centre of…

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Road paving, 1911 - The operation of motor buses by the Corporation helped to bring about improvements in the surfacing and repair of local roads. The increasing presence of motor transport in the late 1900s was responsible for the disintegration of…

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The bridge carrying Station Road over the Rochdale Canal with Machpelah Works above. The bridge was widened in 1913/4 after many years of wrangling between successive Local Authorities and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. The extension with the…
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