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Band outside the bank building at the corner of Albert Street and Hope Street, name of the bank on the windows not discernible but now Lloyds Bank (2015). Date unknown.

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This cobbled road leads to Redacre sewage works and to Broadbottom Farm.

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This cobbled path, known locally as the Snicket, was part of the Heptonstall – Halifax packhorse route and originally dropped sharply straight down, passing the front of the White Lion to the Old Bridge and on to the Buttress. Houses on the left are…

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The large and magnificent Barkisland Hall loudly proclaims the middling gentry status of its builder, John Gledhill. Unique within the district in being three storeys high, it has a fully developed F-plan with a projecting porch dated 1638 and…

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On the left the River Calder with Stubbing Holme Road. On the right is Calder Place, early 19th century 'bottom' houses, some single storey, with barreled arched stone ceilings, beneath the 'top' houses fronting Bridge Lanes.

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Birchcliffe Road near the Birchcliffe Chapel, out of the picture on the left.

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Bottom of Birchcliffe Road c1947. The buildings to the left of the picture were later pulled down to enable the road junction with the Keighley Road to be widened.

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A "detached" house on the end of the double-decker houses formed between Eifel Street and Edward Street. Once lived in by Elton Thomas.

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Off Hangingroyd Lane, Bond Street is one of the iconic cobbled streets of this former mill town. The houses across the end of the street are Royd Terrace. Taken in June 1978.

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Known as Buttress Brink it was a warren of dwellings demolished in the 1960s.

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On the 'short line' from Bradford to Leeds Central Station opened in 1854 by the Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway which was acquired by the GNR in 1865. The station closed in 1966 and the buildings were demolished; a new station with bus…

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Playing outside the bank at the junction of Albert Street and Hope Street.

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At the junction of Commercial Street and the main road.

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Corn Mill on left. During the war they kept a fire engine inside the mill so that if the bridge was bombed or put out of action they would have an engine on that side of the bridge. Cross Stone church is on the skyline.

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The Old Bridge onto Bridge Gate. The buildings seen either side have now gone. The house on the left of the bridge used to store their coal under the arch at this end of the bridge.

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The Old Bridge onto Bridge Gate. The buildings seen either side have now gone. The house on the left of the bridge used to store their coal under the arch at this end of the bridge.

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On the far left of the picture is Hazel's wool shop, which was demolished and the site is now Bridge Gate car park.

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On the far left of the picture is Hazel's wool shop, which was demolished and the site is now Bridge Gate car park.

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There was a saw mill here in the mid 19th Century. The building on the right was once the engine house for Brockwell Mill, and THE white house was the mill owner's house. If you continue down the cobbled road on the right you would come to the base…

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A rare photograph taken sometime between 1890 and 1896 of the Forester's Arms beerhouse, which stood in Brook Street, Luddenden - a footpath which runs alongside the Luddenden Brook linking the north and south ends of High Street. The path commenced…
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