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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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Possibly Jack-o-Bog Eggs, Wadsworth, the last hand loom weaver in the Calderdale area.

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Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…

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The house in the centre of the picture is Angeldale on Hangingroyd Lane. Moss Lane winds up the hillside to the Heptonstall road. Cross Lanes Chapel is on the extreme left of the picture. Back of photo dated 1956

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Looking towards Horsehold.

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The Methodist chapel centre right and above it by the terraced houses the co-op. Lilywhite Postcard

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Higher and Lower Lumb Mills, Lumb Bank in foreground

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View from White Hill Nook. Postcard produced by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse

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Possibly Cragg Hall grounds ?

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Crimsworth Dean. Postcard. Addressed to Mrs F Eastwood, Ovenden sent to 'my dear mother' by Harold and Eve

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Postcard, addressed to Mrs Ada Helliwell, c/o address in Blackpool, sent by her sister Anne

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Postcard. Pencil note on back says circa 1880 - 1900 .

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Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)

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Mytholm Hall in the foreground, with St James church behind, and Eaves Mill behind that. Heptonstall church is on the sky-line

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In the centre the Old Bridge and Bridge Mill Chimney with Old Gate on the left. The buildings on the right fronted onto Bridge Gate but all have been demolished.

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Lumb Bank at Top and below the chimney of the demolished Lower Lumb Mill.

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"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…

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Postcard entitled "Golden Valley, Heptonstall", published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. The white building in the centre is Great Lear Ings Farm, the building extreme left is Little Lear Ings, and the cottages beyond are Knowl Top and Edge Hey Green.

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Grange Mill chimney was a towering landmark in Mytholmroyd until 1898 when it was demolished in spectacular style.

A newspaper report at the time stated: "Crowds gathered in Mytholmroyd in 1897 to watch the fall of a giant. As it tumbled the…

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Postcard, published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. Colden School is on the left hand side. The row of cottages in the foreground on the right are called High Street. Towards the left at the top of the picture is Highgate Chapel.
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