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Postcard dated 1925. Message reads: Dear mother, We're all well and having a nice holiday. We are sat in the field and Alice is chanting for us. We have come to hear the Clarions but they have not started yet. We have all we could wish for in food…

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An open air service takes place here at 8 o'clock on the first Sunday in May.

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Taken from Hell Hole rocks below Heptonstall, the Ragley road, from Mytholm to Jack Bridge, can be seen on the left; the chimney of Lumb Mill is in the bottom of the valley, with Lumb Bank, a former home of Ted Hughes, to the right.

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Alice Longstaff walking down the footpath to Salt Pie Farm. Rodmer Clough Farm is on the other side of the valley and on the skyline Scotland and Greenland farms can be seen.

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The houses on the left-hand edge of the photo are Crowther Terrace.

Left of centre in the valley bottom is the mill complex of Upper and Lower Lumb Mills , and Lumb Bank is on the right, part way up the hill.

The road on the left of the photo…

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Colden Road, which runs from Mytholm to Jack Bridge, can be seen rising through the woodland. The "road" is known localley as the "Ragley".

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Postcard entitled "Golden Valley, Heptonstall", published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. The white building in the centre is Great Lear Ings Farm, the building extreme left is Little Lear Ings, and the cottages beyond are Knowl Top and Edge Hey Green.

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Lumb Bank at Top and below the chimney of the demolished Lower Lumb Mill.

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Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)

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Higher and Lower Lumb Mills, Lumb Bank in foreground

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Date unknown. In the centre the engineering works of Pickles, later Browns, and now demolished. The Parish Church of St James to the right was built in 1832, and to the right of that is Mytholm Hall.

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c. 1900 view across Mytholm looking up Colden Valley. On the right Mytholm Hall with St James Church behind. The hall was demolished late 1960s and replaced with accommodation for the elderly. Above the church are Eaves Lower and Upper Mills…

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Bob Mill was a watered powered cotton spinning mill built in 1805 but probably production did not continue after 1809 and the mill subsequently fell into dilapidation. The adjoining house though seems to have been occupied up until the end of the…

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HLS05086. Bridge on Eaves Lane crossing the Colden Water. The Eaves Mills having been disused for several years were demolished after the First World War and the site is now the Eaves Housing Estate.

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HLS05085. Looking up Colden Clough. In the left foreground is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks and next to it Trinity Street on Stubbing Holme between the canal and the river. Above St James Parish Church and Bankfoot Mill with the Eaves Mills beyond. Date…

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HLS05081. Right of centre is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder. Above it Adelaide Street and above that Bankfoot Mill. In the centre Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and Eaves Mills. The Hall and all the…

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Engraving by J Shore c.1855. Looking up from Stubbing Holme where the Colden Water joins the River Calder, the 'mytholm'. Above is Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and above that Eaves Lower and Upper Mills and to the right Bankfoot Mill, now the…

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LYRS 4221 - 'Milking Brig, Colden Valley', as featured on a coloured postcards featured on a B&W postcards featured on a B&W postcard published by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway promoting days out to Hebden Bridge by train.

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Mytholm, looking up the Colden Valley. Mytholm Hall can be seen to the right of the photo, behind it stands the Parish Church of St James the Great. Eaves Mills can be seen beyond the church. On the left of the picture is Mytholm Mill.

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MILKING BRIDGE is a very narrow stone footbridge of one arch in a dell at the lower end of the Colden Valley. According to W. B. Crump it was the subject of two drawings by J. Horner.
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