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  • Date contains "1930s"

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As a result of the mill closures, some families left the area, causing a drop in population. House building schemes had been left in abeyance during the war. Now the government introduced help for authorities to start a housing programme. This…

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

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Claude and Ada Mary Longbottom (née Cockcroft) sitting on the right with their sons Philip and Maurice (in front).This would have been taken in the mid-thirties., Philip would have been 13 and Maurice 9 in 1935. Back L-R Philip and Claude Longbottom…

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Looking across to High Street from the bottom of Stocks Lane. Top left the Methodist chapel, closed 2011, and bottom left the Wolf Inn, demolished 1950s. Photo Christopher Cawkwell Collection.

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Pictured are Mary Hannah Greenwood (nee Speak) and husband Percy Greenwood. They are possibly surveying the new reservoir at Gorple which was completed in the early 1930s. The couple, married in late 1930, are walking along the track above Gorple,…

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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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The Memorial Gardens were opened in 1935 to commemorate the dead of the First World War.

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

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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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Possibly part of the Roman Road.

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Possibly part of the Roman Road.

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Postcard with April 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.

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

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

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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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