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  • Collection: David Fletcher collection

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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Our Man at Large was a Calder Civic Trust project, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast between the smartly dressed gentleman and the…

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An exhibition of photographs was created as part of the Calder Civic Trust project, Our Man at Large, c1970, the aim of which was to draw attention to squalid places and litter which detracted from the attractions of the area, by using the contrast…

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David Fletcher giving a talk at the Birchcliffe Centre in the upper floor of the chapel after its first conversion to form a community space. The Birchcliffe Centre received a Heritage Lottery grant to improve the facilities of this upper floor which…

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On the right the rear of dwellings on Industrial Street, the lower block has now been demolished and replaced with landscaping and a small car park. Industrial Street was then re-named Garden Terrace. Stubbings School at the bottom.

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As part of the Stubbings General Improvemenet Area plan this was pedestrianised and partially landscaped and the lower block of houses on the left demolishe. It was re-named Garden Terraced. Viewed here from Marlborough Road looking down to Cliffe…

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Looking up Marlborough Road towards its junction with Birchcliffe Road. The top junction on the left was Industrial Street, now pedestrianised Garden Terraced. Balmoral Street at the bottom no longer has vehicular access to Marlborough Road.

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Typical of the town's near unique over and under double decker houses; technically 'Flying Freeholds'.

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Birchcliffe Road, with Eiffel Street the first on the left and Edward Street the second. The date on the stone at the top of this first end house is 1839, and on the end house on the corner of Edward Street, the date is 1899.

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Montrose Buildings, Lee View & Illingworth Villas, Lee Mill Road, Hebden Bridge.

A good example of the famous Hebden Bridge "Top & Bottom" houses, it can be seen from the differing paintwork that the top 2 storeys are in seperate ownership to the…

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Heptonstall Slack Baptist Chapel Choir c.1909, taken to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Choirmaster, William Greenwood, nickname William the Singer.

Bottom row from left: Sarah Pickles, unknown, Francis Greenwood who was killed in the First…

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A recalcitrant farmer reputedly held out for better compensation and ended up on an island between the two motorway carriageways.

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Rochdale Canal with Princes Bridge on Station Road in the background.

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Rochdale Canal with Princes Bridge on Station Road in the background.
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