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Workers outside the clog iron shop at Walsden. The brick building on Alma Street is still in existence today (1993).

Christopher Hiley provides the following information: "This photo was never one of our family's collection but I believe the young…

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This snapshot might indicate this crew were working later in the decade as the format in the early 1900's would have been Post Card.

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From Milner Royd Junction the line to Halifax climbs steeply and over the magnificent Copley Viaduct leaving the Calder Valley line way below. A station was opened at Copley in 1855 to serve Akroyd’s model factory village, which pre-dated the much…

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Slide 29 - The village lies a mile from Newburgh priory. Large elm stands in the middle of the roadway. In summer the gardens of the cottages are filled with flowers.

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Donated by Margaret Harrison

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Photograph of Cragg Hall, the grounds and mill employees, taken in 1907 after the Hall had been rebuilt and enlarged and the grounds laid out as shown.

Thanks to Sam Hellowell we are fortunate indeed to have nearly all 180 people named.


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Donated by Margaret Harrison. Newly completed Cragg Hall.

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Undated postcard. Looking towards Dauber Bridge. The women's dress suggests possibly pre-First World War. Intriguingly the postcard contains some rudimentary re-touching.

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Postcard with January 1906 postmark. Cragg Post Office is on the left and further along Cragg Vale Co-operative store with the Working Men's Club next door to that.

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On 5th September 1905, this engine was involved in a tragic accident at Walshaw Dean where the stoker, James Taylor was scalded by steam from the boiler and later died. The engine, driven by John Leech had left the rails and fallen on its side whilst…

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Slide 5 - It is said that at the Restoration, fearing the body of her father would be maltreated, she caused the corpse to be removed from Westminster Abbey, and brought to Newburgh, and interred in a vault within the housed. This vault is situated…

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Crossley and Porter School History
The Crossley Heath school building owes its existence to the philanthropy of the Crossley brothers, Francis, John and Joseph. In 1857 they formulated a scheme for the establishment of a ‘superior College for the…

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Workers in Dawson City, which was situated at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall. The ‘City’ housed many hundreds of men along with their wives and children. It was built in 1900 near Draper Corner, below Heptonstall Slack, as a settlement and depot for…

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Scout Road School and Hathershelf Scout are in the background.

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This mill was built as a steam powered mill in 1861 and was the last mill to be built in the Colden Valley.

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Derrick Holt 1909 - 1992 (on rocking horse), and Bernard Holt 1908 - 2003

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Slide 20 - ...and take our leave by showing a distant view of the Hall, the Church and the wooded landscape of 'Sprotbro's fair domains' past' which the silver
'Stream of Don winds its meandering course.'

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Postcard with pencil note on the reverse: ' July 8th 1908. Student's Association Ramble'. The image shows the old clapper bridge in Turvin Clough, Cragg Vale.
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