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Looking across Hangingroyd and Nutclough Mills to Birchcliffe late 1880s.

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The New Church was built in 1854. It contains a fine Italian painting of the "Last Supper".

The Old Church was originally built in the 13th century, but was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries. The two churches are extremely unusual in that…

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Possibly the oldest photograph of the town.

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Buttress Brink was a warren of dwellings near the end of Old Bridge and facing the old Hole-in-the-Wall Inn. When the buildings were scheduled for demolition many said they should be preserved, but no-one wanted to live there.

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Foster Mill far left, Hangingroyd Mill in the centre and above that Nutclough Mill. Birchcliffe Road climbing up the undeveloped hillside with the first Birchcliffe Chapel and grave yard to its left.

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c.1888. In the centre is Nutclough Mill before the extension to the left, and above 'old' Birchcliffe Chapel. Housing starting to be developed on the hillside; top right Cliffe Royd on Wadsworth Lane and right behind the north side of Blenheim…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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St. James Sunday School Outing, between 1878-1884.

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St. James Sunday School Outing, between 1878-1884.
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