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  • Collection: Derek Pollard collection

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Mitchell Bros Mill and Old Town Hall. c1957. Situated above Hebden Bridge.

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This Thorneycroft Wagon would pick up raw wool from the conditioning house at Bradford, and then deliver the washed, carded and combed wool "Tops" to customers. The wagon also brought coal from Sharleston Colliery. The wagon driver was John Birket.

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The Boiler House. A lot of coal was stored outside, it was brought from Sharlston Colliery near Wakefield . The man in the picture was the boiler fireman.

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This boiler ran the steam engine and, heated the mill, and washed the wool. The hopper and automatic stokers were made by "Proctors" of Burnley.

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Percy Pollard beside the huge flywheel.

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Percy Pollard at the engine starting valve.

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Percy Pollard at the engine starting valve.

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The dam and the engine house. The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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Harry Haigh, Engineer, 1960.

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Engine room. The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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Vent for the aquduct carrying water from the reservoirs in the upper valley to Mount Tabor. From there it went to the treatment works in Halifax.

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Percy and Delia Mabel Pollard outside their home at Old Town.

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Across the photo below the church is the rear of the 'up' platform at the station, which is the buildings on stilts. The structure sloping down to the left of the platform building carried a footway under the railway to the second floor Booking…

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Mytholmroyd Methodist chapel is near the centre of the picture.

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Stephen Sutcliffe is driving the grey Fergy
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