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  • Collection: Derek Pollard collection

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Pictures at the end of World War II. Back row, L to R: Alfred, Harry, Walter, May, Cecil, robert, Joan. Front orw: Dora, May, Hitchen, Florry, Dorean, Joan.

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Probably pictured outside St Michael's, Mytholmroyd and judging by the buttonholes it was for a wedding.

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Looking towards Halifax. Note the large water tank on the right behind the engine. This supplied water for the engines via a pipe under the track to a hose near the signal box.

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Looking up the line towards Todmorden. The large goods warehouse, demolished 1969, on right with an endless belt hoist, originally there had been three. A water turret can be seen on the left.

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Whilst working on the roof of his barn at higher blacks haw Farm, Ian Coates fell through this hole onto the concrete floor below.

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This photograph, attributed to the Hebden Bridge Times, appeared in "The Hebden", Calder High School's magazine for March 1952. The play was A A Milne's "Make Believe" and was the first full length play to be staged in the theatre at Calder High…

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Broadbent centre Lathe - one of 4 installed.

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Taken at Prudoe Bay at the end of the Dalton Highway, Alaska.

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Lathe bed being machined on a planeing machine

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John served on Arctic Convoys in WW2

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View from fitting shop into a machine shop. The drawing office can be seen through the glass window, note the heating pipes in the roof truss.

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Double ended tenoning machine in fitting shop, looking toward the old mill bottom.

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c1935. Vertical log saw, here it was in the fitting shop, after building extension it became the machine shop.

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Works trip by motor coach having breakfast stop on the "Great North Road", the A1, on their way to the woodworking machinery exhibition at Olympia, London, 1948.
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