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  • Collection: Rene Dawson Collection

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View over the town from Fairfield looking up Hebden Dale about 1900. Bottom centre St Thomas' Catholic Church and next to it Pallis House.

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Looking across Hangingroyd and Nutclough Mills to Birchcliffe late 1880s.

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The 1850s decorated font in the church of St Thomas the Apostle, Heptonstall There is also the old font from the previous Church of St Thomas a Beckett but much more roughly hewn.

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The church, dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle, was completed in 1854 and replaced a much older one on the same site. The ruins of the old church are adjacent.

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The old parish church of St Thomas a Becket at Heptonstall was founded in the 13th century, although much of the ruin that still stands dates from the 15th century. A new church dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle was built in 1854, after a fierce…

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Mount Zion Baptist Church was built in 1808 by a breakaway group from Birchcliffe Chapel in Hebden Bridge but the present building dates from 1878.

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A cotton spinning mill at Meadow Bottom; it was destroyed by fire in February 1918.

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Hole Bottom on the north hillside up above Burnley Road. Originally known as Hole-Bottom-Meadow-Bottom.

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Originally known as Hole-Bottom-Meadow-Bottom. Situate on the north hillside above Burnley Road.

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Dedicated to St John the Divine the church dates fro the late 1790s.

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Holme House or Hall probably dates from the 15th century with re-building in the 17th century and additions in the mid 18th century. Between 1985 and 2003 it was used as a retirement home but was gutted by arson in 2004, but has since been…

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Holme Station Cliviger on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. On 27th October 1907 some wagons on a coal train became detached at Copy Pit and rolled back down and leaving the track demolished the Booking Office killing the Booking Clerk.

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The Todmorden - Burnley Road (now A646) in the centre of the village. On the left is the lychgate to the church.

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The Todmorden - Burnley Road (now A646) running through the village.

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The village is on the Todmorden - Burnley road and railway line and once had a station.

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All Saints Church, Harley Wood, Lydgate opened 1858 and was demolished in 1975 following closure.

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Dedicated to St John the Divine it is a fine Georgian Church dating from the late 18th century.

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St Peter's church was built in the late 1840s.

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Jumble Hole Clough runs north westerly up from the Upper Calder Valley between Charlestown and Eastwood.

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Formed by a break away group from the chapel at Shore the church opened in a central valley position in 1819. The church closed in 1962 and the congregation joined the Roomfield congregation. The graves were moved to Shore Chapel and but a block of…

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Lob Mill east of the town with the chimney being felled on 29 September 1906 by which time the mill was disused Note the crowds standing on the railway viaduct to watch.

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"BOILER EXPLOSION at Lord Bros. 7 killed and 40 or 50 injured. Three boilers placed in Canal Street Works new in 1866. Whole of boiler house, beaming room and small engine room adjoining all reduced to ruins.

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Lovers Walk in Buckley Wood on the hillside above Centre Vale Park.

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