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  • Date contains "1880s"

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They moved into the newly built Fallingroyd House, Hebden Bridge, with their two sons in 1873.

Daniel and Hannah were both born in 1824. A descendant of these two people, Mrs Duly, sent the photograph to Diana Monahan. The family believed the…

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This can be accurately dated as to the right of Stubbings School, left centre, can be seen work on the construction of Zion Baptist Chapel which opened in 1882. Below it are the buildings on both sides of Commercial Street which were demolished in…

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Foster Holme. Nutclough Mill has been extended on one side only. The old Birchcliffe Chapel is in the centre towards the top of the picture, with High Hurst behind it.

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Nutclough Mill has just been extended upwards. The Birchcliffe hillside has yet to be developed, but the old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen near the top of the picture.

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This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…

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The low white building to the right is Palace House or 'Pallisser's House', the home of the pallisser who looked after the fence or pallisade around the deer park which used to occupy the land now called Erringden. New Road is in the background. …

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Nothing to do with a 'palace' but a derivation from Pallis House i.e. the house of the 'palliser,' the person responsible in the middle ages for maintaining the fence around Erringden Deer Park. The house is now demolished.

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General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.

Centre right…

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A family group photographed outside the toll house on Cross Stone Road in 1887.

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Mabel' passing 'Ellen' at Derdale. All the Rochdale Canal Company boats were named after women or flowers. In this photograph, flour from Stansfield Corn Mill is being hoisted into the barge.

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The crew of a canal boat consisted of captain, bosun and horse man. This photograph also shows members of the captain's family who, from the 1850s, were allowed to travel with the boat.

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The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company had to build a double retaining wall alongside the canal side at Salford due to land subsidence but also to extend the goods yard.

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LYRS 2680 - 1880s. Station staff and maintenance ganger's at the station. The station half way between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden was opened by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in December 1840. The valley is so narrow that the track had to be built…

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LYRS 2724 - The Spen Valley Line connecting Mirfield on the Calder Valley Main Line with Low Moor opened in July 1848 and the line between Low Moor and Bradford opened in May 1850. The 1848 station seen here looking towards Mirfield was replaced by…

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LYRS2740. The Spen Valley Line connecting Mirfield on the Calder Valley Main Line with Low Moor opened in July 1848 and the line between Low Moor and Bradford opened in May 1850. The first station seen here looking towards Low Moor opened at the same…
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