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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - General Pictures

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Can you help identify this farmhouse/cottage?

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Postcard date stamped June 20 1905 sent to Mr J. Mr J. Mitchell in Whitworth from Lill.

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At the Tourist Information Centre, Hebden Bridge

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Two open top Halifax Corporation trams on New Road, Hebden Bridge. The Corporation's tramway was extended to Hebden Bridge in 1901 to a terminus on New Road near the junction with Crown Street. This necessitated the Corporation installing electricity…

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Tram on Fallingroyd Bridge half way between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. The 'S' shaped bridge was an infamous black spot before it was re-aligned and the sign reads DEATH TRAP

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The rail or tramway was used for the transportation of men and equipment from the base camp at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall, to the construction site of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs in the early 1900s.

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This is Towngate, Heptonstall around 1900.

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The building on the right was the Heptonstall Co-operative Industrial Society - built on the site of 7 former cottages on Church Street. The Co-op was established in 1860, in rented premises and moved into a new shop in 1866. Note the glass structure…

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Four public pumps stood in Heptonstall. This is one of the few surviving and best preserved in Yorkshire.

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The shop on the right was both a grocers and a drapers, run by Arnold Sunderland, Auntie Parker, Edith and Emma (Anna).

The boy is Charles Taylor.

In the centre (driving horse and cart?) is Arnold Sunderland, Gerald Sunderland's uncle.

The photo…

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This later became Stansfield View Hospital

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North Street, Todmorden, around 1920 before properties including the tall building near the viaduct – housing a sweet shop, butcher’s, pie and pea café and a hairdressers – and the Black Swan, left, disappeared under a road widening scheme in the…

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The station looking east in L&YR days. The canopies have all now gone along with the platform building on the left and the goods siding which is now the station car park.

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The building was originally Todmorden Grammar, which brought us two Nobel Prize winners. In the late sixties or early seventies, Scaitcliffe School on the opposite side the Burnley Road was opened as a Secondary Modern School. Later the grammar…

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Once a Post Office, this photo was taken before it became a restaurant. Earlier still it was the residence of the Fielden family. Up to the middle of the 16th century all domestic building would have been timber-framed, though in towns such as…
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