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  • Collection: Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection

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Glynn was born in 1946, lived on Albert Street, Mytholmroyd and attended Sowerby Bridge Grammar School.

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Lloyd Greenwood was born at Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. In 1938, he won a place at the Halifax Junior Technical School, now Calderdale College, and went on to become a clerk with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
He started work at the…

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Looking towards Mytholmroyd.

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The church was built in 1848 in an Early English Style; it was a Million Pound church. The Sunday school, which can be seen on the left, was reduced to one story in the 1970s; this is now the church hall.

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General view of Hebden Bridge showing Bridge Lanes, Heptonstall Road and the track leading to Hell Hole Rocks. In the foreground Calder Mill which was largely destroyed by fire in 1968 although by then no longer a cotton mill.

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Prince Charles visited Calderdale as part of his Business in the Community Initiative, on 14th February 1989. Here he is in New Road. Formerly C14MF

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In the centre is Heath House and the track going off to the right goes up the Colden Valley to Jack Bridge.Winding up the hillside Mytholm Steeps which in pack-horse days was the main route between Hebden Bridge and Burnley. In the corner bottom…

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A "detached" house on the end of the double-decker houses formed between Eifel Street and Edward Street. Once lived in by Elton Thomas.

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Heptonstall has two churches within one graveyard. Although not unique, there is another instance at Alvingham in Lincolnshire, this is unusual. At the centre of the village are the ruins of the Church of St Thomas à Becket built between 1256 and…

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Possibly some members of the Ingham family in the photograph. The building on the right is Royds Farm, which the family may have had.
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