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  • Collection: Wayne Ogden collection

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Looking down the road in the Mytholmroyd direction. The newspaper bill boards are mentioning the total eclipse which took place 27th June 1927. The tram lines were lifted mid-1930s.

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Loco number 11279 taking up water on the troughs between Sowerby Tunnel and Luddendenfoot as it heads towards Sowerby Bridge. Water troughs such as these enabled steam engines to take on water without stopping.

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Undated postcard. On the centre hillside Murgatroyd's Oats Royd Mill.

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A steam vehicle on Burnley Road passing tennis court and bowling green on Tillotson Holme and above long lines of railway goods wagons in the Station Goods Yard, closed 1962. St Mary's Church with its 126ft spire, demolished 1980, on the hillside

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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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Undated postcard.

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A permanent way ganger maintaining the track. A station opened at Luddendenfoot at the same time as the line in October 1840 although the buildings seen here are much later. The station was closed in 1962.

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Postcard with September 1922 postmark. Looking up to the junction with Burnley Road with the bridge over the River Calder in the foreground and then the bridge over the Rochdale Canal further on.

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Undated postcard.

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Looking along Burnley Road in the Halifax direction. The Halifax Corporation trams were withdrawn in the mid-1930s and all the buildings seen here on the left were demolished probably late 1970s.

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Holmes Park and Recreation Ground on the left.

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The church opened Good Friday 1859 with the lower part used as a school for mill workers. The church has closed and the building converted into dwellings.

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Undated postcard. St John in the Wilderness; Cragg Hall Lodge; The Falls; The Vicarage; Cragg Vale and Victoria Mill.

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Postcard with June 1910 postmark. This walled path leads to Robin Hood Rocks. The nearest building is Birks Hall, behind and slightly to the right is Glen House. On the right of the picture is Twist Clough and Beech Cottages.

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Postcard with handwritten note on the reverse: '1912 CRAGG VALE. Front Robert Blatchford,3rd front James Benson, rear 3rd from right Helen Benson.

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Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.

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Postcard with pencil note on the reverse: ' July 8th 1908. Student's Association Ramble'. The image shows the old clapper bridge in Turvin Clough, Cragg Vale.

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In the centre, below the Board School, i.e. Council School, is Church Bank Mill with its very tall chimney. At the bottom of the picture is the church of St John the Baptist. The postcard has an intriguing title.
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