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  • Collection: Mick Chatham Collection

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Message on the back reads: The visit to Halifax of the Welsh guards in June 1940 brings pleasant memories. D. Jenkins 1st Bn Weslsh guards.

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Postcard dated 1906. The statue of John Fielden designed by J.H. Foley and cast in 1869, was moved here from its original site outside the Town Hall. In 1939 it was again moved to its current site (2019) in Centre Vale Park.

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Originally a corn mill and latter a fulling mill in 1599, it was rebuilt in 1787. It was used to produce Worsted cloth between 1829 and 1847, James Clay who owned this mill and many others in the Calderdale area emplyed 1100 operatives in total in…

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Postcard dated 1904 The remains of the Fisherman's Hut still can be found on the river bank some waY up stream from Gibson Mill

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The mill is in process of being demolished.

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Situated in Centre Vale Park in what was the kitchen garden of the former Centre Vale Mansion.

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The distinctive arches in the centre of the picture are Stubbings Infants School. To the left of the school is St John’s Church which closed in the 1960s and was subsequently converted into a residential property. The old Birchcliffe Chapel and…

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Post card dated 1958. The Scarbottom Mills can be seen in the centre of the Photo; the mill dam can be seen at the foot of the wooded slope to the right. The houses on the shoulder of the hill on the right are known collectively as Stubbings. Scout…

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Being held in the Piece Hall, Halifax. The Spire of Square Church can be seen in the middle ground.

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From the Halifax Courier:

On the wet morning of October 15, 1907, car No 64 was en route from Triangle to Halifax. Dawn had not yet broken as it climbed slowly out of Sowerby Bridge, passing Bolton Brow. On board were about 60 early-morning…

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Looking down on the entrance to the Crags. The white building just to the left of centre is The blue Pig, club.

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The home of John Carr architect, who designed Harewood House. A Grade 2* listed building.

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The photo shows the hilltop village of Heptonstall. The woodland is known as Lee Wood. the fields make up land belonging to "Lumb's" Egg Production business. In the bottom left hand corner of the photo is "Lee Holme" crown green bowling club. and the…

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1911-12 season. They later became Heptonstall AFC and then joined with the Hebden Bridge team to become Hebden Royd Red Star.
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