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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Ale has been drunk for centuries in some of the ancient moorland and country inns round Elland and although the age of…

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NAME: BRIDGE MILLS

LOCATION: Station Road, Luddenden Foot

REF: CD 146

GRID REF: 037 251

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Semi-used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A small, three storey stone built mill cum…

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Showing the rear of the 'up' Manchester Platform across the viaduct. The platforms not only extended across the viaduct but overhung it supported by massive brackets as seen here. This was not without incident and on more than one occasion flags and…

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A very derelict looking Brighouse Station, date unknown. The first station here opened with the line in October 1840 and was to the east of Huddersfield Road and at the time was called 'Brighouse and Bradford Station' as there as then no railway to…

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LYRS 2667 - Barton Wright 4-4-0 heading a westbound train on the 'up' Manchester platform. . The first station opened in 1840 to the east of Huddersfield Road and new station, seen here, to the west of Huddersfield Road was opened in the 1890s. It…

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Work on what is now the car park at Brook Street. The post office is still situated in the building shown here on the left of the shot. The now demolished cinema visible through the second arch of the railway viaduct with the market hall to the right…

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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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The station on the MR/NER ‘Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway ‘opened at the same time as the line in August 1865. The station was de-staffed in 1968 and the buildings demolished and replaced by bus stop style shelters, the line was electrified in 1994/5.

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Outside the Abraham Ormerod Centre, Burnley Road, Todmorden

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Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Junction of Burnley Road with Station Road, Hebden Bridge. Photo dated 28/4/52. Below the arm pointing to the station the former Gas Works at…

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North Street, between the Town Hall and the viaduct, Todmorden. The building underneath the arch housed road salt. Note the train on the viaduct.

Bus number 2, registration number C-1503 and with its replacement single deck body following an…

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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 first station here on the MR Aire Valley line opened in 1846 on completion of the Leeds & Bradford Railway and known originally as Calverley Bridge. The station was completely re-built c.1900 when the line was quadrupled with the main station…

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Pictured at Hebden Bridge Railway Station. c.2009

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The Castle Street area, Halifax Road, viewed from above Castle Hill tunnel. The scene is dominated by Cinderhill Mills. The Rose and Crown Inn can be seen in the lower centre.

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Looking towards Todmorden from above the picnic site. The railway line goes over Horsfall Arches (Lobb Mill viaduct) before entering Castle Hill Tunnel. Todmorden Town Hall is in the centre in the distance.
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