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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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These impressive trophies have been awarded to (presumably) the mink in the case and the rosette reads' 'Class Champion 1956, Best Novice.' The mink farm in Hebden Bridge was situated near Burlees and in the 1970s some of the mink were released by…

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Broadwood was a champion hunter owned by William Simpson Hinchcliffe.

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Broadwood was a champion hunter owned by William Simpson Hinchcliffe.

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Broadwood was a champion hunter owned by William Simpson Hinchcliffe.

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Alice Longstaff's dog

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Looks like a fine shorthorn cow and may well have been a show winner.

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Alice Longstaff's dog

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Mrs. Adams along with Mrs. Nolan provided the meals for the navvies who were working on the construction of the reservoirs at Gorple. An amusing story was told to me many years ago concerning these two women, it goes as follows. Egged on by these…

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A wonderful picture, possibly of Sunday School scholars and teachers, from the days when chapel life was at the heart of the community.

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Bridge dated 1892. Cast Iron by "De Bergue & Co. Ltd. Manchester." A 2 span slightly skewed bridge with triangular stone breakwaters which rise into elaborately decorated piers. East pier is inscribed "E. Riley - Architect" and the west pier is…

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Palace House is in there foreground and the other side of what is now Calder Holmes Park Hope Baptist Church stands proud. On the left the road to Heptonstall winds up the hill past Crosslanes Chapel.

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Originally termed a cottage, this building caused quite a bit of controversy during the building of the Walshaw reserservoirs in the 1900s. The room nearest the camera was used for committee meetings. The tracks are for the railway used during the…

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Traffic lights now replace the policeman at this junction of New Road, Bridge Gate, Holme Street and West End. The building of the corner on the left was for many years Blackburn's Ironmongers. The house next to the pharmacy is Westbourne House and…

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This floral arrangement hung from the centre of the arch built to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.

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This church was built at a cost of £7,000. The new church was consecrated on 26th October 1854 by Bishop Longley of Ripon and dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle.
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