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  • Collection: Wayne Ogden collection

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Postcard with July 1978 postmark. Bridge Mill is on the right; over the bridge can be seen the Council Offices, with Cross Lanes Chapel behind it on the hill.

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Undated postcard. The bridge was built to carry a tramway from Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, to transport materials and navvies to the construction site of Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. The bridge was 700ft long and 105ft above the valley floor. The bridge…

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Undated postcard. At the summit of Blackstone Edge and anecdotally built to have a view of Yorkshire from one side and Lancashire from the other.

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Undated postcard. Hangingroyd housing can be seen bottom left with Old Town top left. Old Birchcliffe Chapel is towards the top right with the new 1898 Chapel below it. Demolition appears to be taking place at the old Birchcliffe Chapel, the stone…

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Postcard with August 1915 postmark. Along the bottom are the terraced houses on Calder Bank, now long demolished, and to their left the small two storey Hebble End Dyeworks later enlarged and now (2015) apartments

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Undated postcard. Although the paved causeway is known as 'Blackstone Edge Roman Road' it is the subject of debate with consideration to it being a packhorse route or even possibly part of the 1735 turnpike, or even a later quarry road. However it is…

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Postcard with July 1942 postmark, but the photo is probably much earlier. Callis is between Hebden Bridge and Eastwood.

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Undated postcard 'Exclusive to Mytholmroyd Post Office'. Rochdale Canal; Redacre Mill Hotel; The Dusty Miller; Rochdale Canal.

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Undated postcard 'Exclusive to B Adams, Newsagent, 8 New Road, Mytholmroyd'. Mytholmroyd War Memorial; St Michael's Church; Shoulder of Mutton; Cragg Vale.

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On the left is the loop line used by slow trains so that faster trains could overtake them.

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

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A diesel hauled goods train heading west.

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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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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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Townscape prior to construction of Caldene Bridge in 1908 but after the arrival of the trams in 1901. On the hillside is Scout Road School and along the bottom the Rochdale Canal.

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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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Undated postcard. The image is probably early 20th century. Right of centre is Foster Mill and dam with Hebden Water below it. The old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen on the hillside above town.
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