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  • Date contains "1930s"

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Jack Bridge cricket club won the cup in 1930. Here are three of the players. From L to R:

Jack Chambers, Clifford Crabtree and Rennie Thwaites.

They are pictured at Hudson Mill with the bottom of Pilling Steps behind the group. Note that they…

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A traditional mummer's play. The Pace Egg Play, performed annually on Good Friday at various venues around Hebden Bridge. Revived locally around 1931and broadcast by the BBC. It's not clear who is in this photo, which is taken in St George's…

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The mill in the centre of the picture is Redman's Scarbottom Mill. The house on the extreme left is Rose Mount, Nest Lane. The wooden buildings were part of Thornber's hatchery. There are quite a few railway wagons in the sidings.

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Fred Sayer lived here when he moved to the area in 1933

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'West of Shanghai' is a 1937 film about a Chinese warlord, who holds a group of oilmen and missionaries hostage in a remote Chinese outpost.

'52nd Street' - 1937 film of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

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The house where the former Poet Laureate, Edward James " Ted" Hughes, (17 August 1930 - 28 October 1998) was born. Ted was only 7 years old when he moved with his family to Mexborough in South Yorkshire, but it is widely believed that his early years…

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Postcard with 1938 postmark. Still a busy small mill town! Scarbottom Mill with its mill dam is to the right of centre, with Thornber's poultry sheds to the left. On the skyline towards the left is Midgley Methodist Chapel.

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Undated postcard. The centre picture shows tramlines on Burnley road, trams were withdrawn in 1936.

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Poatcard with1931 postmark. Top left a tram on Burnley Road, they were withdrawn in 1936. Top right Dauber Bridge on Cragg Road and bottom right Hawksclough and bridge over the River Calder.

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Mytholmroyd (Scout Road Sunday School) Cricket Club, probably 1939 when they won the Hebden Bridge League.

From left to right, beginning with the back row:
Willie Scott, Norman Greenwood, Herbert Fleetwood, Wilfred Boocock, Fred Whitaker, Jim…

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Roll of Honour for the men and women of the Sunday School who served in the 1939 - 45 war.

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Undated postcard but probably c1930. The long, light coloured building is one of Thornber's poultry sheds.

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Postcard with April 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.

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Possibly part of the Roman Road.

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Possibly part of the Roman Road.

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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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The tunnel was opened 18th July 1934, and this photo was taken the day before that.
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