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People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.

Situated at the…

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People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.

Situated at the…

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People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.

Situated at the…

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People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.

Situated at the…

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The original was destroyed by fire in 1999 and a new one built to this original design. The figure in the photograph is Beryl Martin with dog 'Juno".

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This was the home of John Fielden MP who bought the Centre Vale estate in 1842 from local cotton mill owner, Thomas Ramsbottom, who built the original house. The mansion was used as a hospital during the First World War and later opened as a museum.…

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From left to right across the picture, Calder Holmes Park, Riverside School, Blackpit Aqueduct, Melbourne Mill, and the former Neptune Inn. From a Geoff Boswell calendar, 2004. PH84.

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In the centre Stubbing Holme Dyeworks and to the right housing under construction on Stubbing Holmes. Up the valley Whiteley Arches and Calderside Mill. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Bottom right Calder Holmes with part of Crossley Mill, destroyed by fire 1964. At the bottom St Thomas's Catholic Church and Presbytery. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Looking down stream. On the left fence and trees on Calder Holmes with the gas holder on Station Road. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Probably mid-1960s. On the left the top of the gas holder on Station Road. The boys fishing in the Rochdale Canal with the overgrown canal arm just beyond the bridge; it was converted into the Marina in about 1984. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local…

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Bowling green and pavilion and above the trees the gable end of the large Station Warehouse demolished following a fire in 1969. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The mansion, a Grade 11 listed building, was sold by Colonel Akroyd to Halifax Corporation in 1887. It now forms Bankfield branch library and museum.

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Postcard with August 1915 postmark. Along the bottom are the terraced houses on Calder Bank, now long demolished, and to their left the small two storey Hebble End Dyeworks later enlarged and now (2015) apartments
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