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  • Date contains "1930s"

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The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

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The opening ceremony was held at Rishworth Lodge on 7th September 1933. Is the gentleman in the plus fours Lord Savile?

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BRS00117.jpg
The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BRS00115.jpg
The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BRS00114.jpg
The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

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Information from Robert Pickles:

My mum, Mollie Fielden, born April 1924, is on the front row of girls, 2nd in from the right. Sitting next to her, the girl with the glasses called Marion, was mum’s lifelong best friend. Dad, Stanley Pickles, born…

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Looking towards Blackstone Edge from New Gate Bridge below the A58.

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Undated postcard. Although the paved causeway is known as 'Blackstone Edge Roman Road' it is the subject of debate with consideration to it being a packhorse route or even possibly part of the 1735 turnpike, or even a later quarry road. However it is…

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Work in progress on the restoration of the Rochdale Canal at Hebden Bridge. The bridge is the Calder Holmes Footbridge c1938.

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Possibly where the catchwater enters Ringstone Reservoir.

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This is carding, the first process in the Cardroom, where the raw wool or cotton is prepared for subsequent spinning by separating the fibres to form a sliver, this is performed on a revolving flat card made by Platt Bros & Co Ltd of Oldham, the…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BRS00120.jpg
The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BRS00119.jpg
The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BRS00116.jpg
The reservoir is obviously recently completed. Are the men on the slipway inspecting or cleaning?

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Reggie Gill, son of Ira & Mary Louisa Gill, & Emily Gill (née Mitchell) daughter of John & Ellen Mitchell. April 1939 Heptonstall Church. Went to live in Manchester and eventually emigrated to Australia.

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Probably dating from early 1930s, we see Mary Hannah Greenwood (nee Speak) on the right with an unknown companion. They are on the track above the Gorple reservoir workings, possibly returning to Colden after attending the Blake Dean Chapel…

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