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  • Collection: Wayne Ogden collection

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Postcard, with April 1910 postmark, caricaturing nightly chaos, presumably on a Saturday, when the last tram of the night left.

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Postcard with 1938 postmark. Still a busy small mill town! Scarbottom Mill with its mill dam is to the right of centre, with Thornber's poultry sheds to the left. On the skyline towards the left is Midgley Methodist Chapel.

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Undated postcard but Calder High School, top centre, is under construction and although work on the school started before the war, it did not open until 1950, it was the West Riding's first comprehensive school. Redman's Scarbottom Mill, with its…

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Between the wars postcard. Diagonally to the left of St Michael's Church is the rear of the railway station with the overhanging timber buildings on the 'up' platform supported on stilts.

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Pre-1961 postcard. Top left the War Memorial in front of Grange Dene House, now site of the Health Centre. Bottom left Calder High School, opened 1950.

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On the left workmen are repairing the viaduct fence. The platforms not only ran along the viaduct but also extended over the sides, supported by massive iron brackets, hence the reason for fencing instead of the usual stone parapet.

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Pictured here after de-manning in 1987. The wooden building held the lift.

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Undated postcard. The centre picture shows tramlines on Burnley road, trams were withdrawn in 1936.

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Postcard with 1925 postmark. The centre image shows the tram lines on Burnley Road and trams were withdrawn in 1936.

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Poatcard with1931 postmark. Top left a tram on Burnley Road, they were withdrawn in 1936. Top right Dauber Bridge on Cragg Road and bottom right Hawksclough and bridge over the River Calder.

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Undated postcard. The image top right shows the tram lines on Burnley Road with a policeman seemingly on point duty at the junction with New Road. Top left photo shows Cleveley Gardens.

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Undated postcard but the photos appear to date from early 20th century; bottom left image shows the tram lines and the tramway, which reached Mytholmroyd in 1901.

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Looking up the line with the signal box on the left and the station building on the right.

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The main station building on the 'down' Leeds platform. The building is three storeys high and the Booking Office was on the ground floor. Passengers for the 'up' platform had to go upstairs to the second floor and then across a walkway under the…

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Timber Waiting Rooms on the 'up' Manchester Platform, on the left-hand is the 'Ladies Room, now demolished. To the right of the building is the access from the main building on the other platform with the Booking Office at ground level.

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Undated postcard but probably c1930. The long, light coloured building is one of Thornber's poultry sheds.

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Taken from Mount Skip. Scout Road School is left of centre with the sweep of Scout Rocks behind it.

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Postcard with August 1913 postmark. A long, westbound passenger train is passing Mytholmroyd station.

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Mytholmroyd Co-op circa 1910. From left, Robert Boulton, Percy Horsfall, Fred Haigh, Fred Stansfield, Lewis Ackroyd and Bob Hartley. Inside the boy is Harry Greenwood and a man nicknamed "Luggage" so called because he once ran from Hollock Lea to the…

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Postcard with April 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.

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Undated postcard but the image is prior to the construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908. Prominent left of centre is the Primitive Methodist Zion Chapel.
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