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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Camera Club

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We have this photo dated 1961, but Jonathan Greenwood comments: “I have a copy of this print because the building in the centre used to belong to my great grandparents, Thomas (Tommy) & Harriet Louisa (Louie) Knight, who ran it as a bakery. They both…

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On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.

Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…

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On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.

Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…

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On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.

Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…

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On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.

Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…

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On the 21st of June, 1912, the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.

Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards…

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August 11th, 1921 a fire broke out which destroyed the Hall.

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Cragg Hall, seen here in its short lived hey-day, was the home of the Hinchliffe family.

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Pictured outside the Dusty Miller this is reputed to be the last working horse on the streets of Hebden Royd, although horses were worked on some farms in the area for several more years. The man is Lewis Feather.

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Seen here at Clegg Nook. Steve Murty is the driver of the stunt truck. Scout Road Methodist Church is on the left of the picture.

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In front of the cottages is the start of the drive to Acacia House.

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This bend which takes the main Hebden Bridge to Halifax road over the Rochdale Canal was notoriously dangerous.

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A firm of Blenders and Slitherers occupied the smaller premises for a number of years. The mill was finally demolished in 2013 and the site developed for housing.
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