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  • Date contains "1930s"

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Members of the Cockroft family with some of the workforce at Birks Mill, about 1930. On the front row, wearing suits, from left to right, are Herbert Cockroft, Keith, Leo, John Arthur Cockroft (the firm's founder) and Eric.

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This decorated cart has been prepared for a procession, under the eye of Mr William Sutcliffe, of Lowerlaithe.

Originally owned by Messrs. Thompson, the business was taken over by the Sutcliffe family around 1856.

Sutcliffe's teams of horses,…

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Originally owned by Messrs. Thompson, the business was taken over by the Sutcliffe family around 1856.

Sutcliffe's teams of horses, noted for their strength, were constantly seen on the roads as they moved the grain and flour to and from the mill.…

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Stansfield Corn Mill showing later additions, including the detached office building.

Originally owned by Messrs. Thompson, the business was taken over by the Sutcliffe family around 1856.

Sutcliffe's bought grain at the ports of Liverpool,…

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In the centre is Arnold Knight who lived nearby at Callis Bridge. Arnold was laid off in 1934 because of the trade depression caused by the Wall Street crash. Information supplied by his grandson Jonathan Greenwood.

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The middle dam, Waterstalls,1933. The farms in the distance are Lower and Higher Scout.

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Gladys, Wilbert & Mary Crossley, Lloyd & Russell. Taken on holiday at Morecambe 1934-5

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Could this be Sophie Greaves of Bridge Gate, who was 100 years old in 1937?

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Probably the 1930s.

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This house, Mayroyd Mill House, was deluged with water when firemen fought a fire which destroyed the nearby Mayroyd Mill, on 10th February 1936. Overnight the water froze. Lloyd Greenwood, the boy looking at the camera, and his friends, stopped to…

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Man with a donkey on the tow path where it inclines up to the bridge at the top of Holme Street. The river is below the wall which today is replaced by railings around the children's playground. The tow path has now been re-aligned at this point.…

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Date unknown but prior to the widening of New Road in 1931 when the end shop, Z Spencer & Sons Florists, was demolished and the second shop was reconstructed at then road end, now Holts Green Grocers.

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Information from Miss Olga Smith who was a pupil at the school from 1925(?) - 1932. 'Morton Wager - front row - Headmaster from 1908 to 1927. I think the man in the middle of the back row must be Hamlet Helliwell who was still Chemistry master…

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Looking from the churchyard towards Towngate, c 1930.

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Miss Livermore's class, c1930.
Back row, left to right: Reginald Whittingham; Tommy Whitehead; Keith Sutcliffe; Albert Nutter? ; Edward Meadowcroft; Jimmy Haslam; Earnest Anderson.
Middle row, Connie Greenwood; Alice Ogden; Marjorie Harris; Doris…

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Misses Gertrude and Alice Ogden on holiday at South Shore, Blackpool. Possibly taken in the late 1920s/early1930s. Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book "A Village Childhood".

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Advertisements from the 1930s. Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book"A Village Childhood"

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View of Mythomroyd showing Scarbottom Mill. Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book "A Village Childhood" c1937. Also a good view of the railway parcels shed and sorting sidings to the right of the station, both dismantled following…
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