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  • Collection: Wayne Ogden collection

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

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The Memorial was unveiled 2 July 1922 at Grange Dean where it still stands.

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The Memorial was unveiled 2 July 1922 at Grange Dean where it still stands.

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This church was located on Scout Road, and closed for worship in December 22014. The new organ was consecrated 24th October, 1903.

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Postcard with July 1947 postmark. Scarbottom Mill is in the centre. Cragg Road can be seen at the bottom right of the photo.

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Date unknown but Calder High School is in the centre and this opened in 1950, the West Riding's first Comprehensive School.

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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 August 1915 postmark. Not to be confused with 'Old' Cragg Hall. The New Hall, or Lower Cragg Hall to distinguish it from Old Cragg Hall, was enlarged and embellished around 1904 and was destroyed by fire in 1921 with a much smaller…

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Postcard with September 1906 postmark. Not to be confused with 'Old' Cragg Hall. The New Hall, or Lower Cragg Hall to distinguish it from Old Cragg Hall, was enlarged and embellished built around 1904 and was destroyed by fire in 1921 with a re-build…

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Undated postcard. Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.

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Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.

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Postcard with November 1906 postmark. As seen here it was a popular beauty spot near Mytholmroyd.

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Undated postcard. During late Victorian and Edwardian times this was a popular beauty spot for a country walk. The little building right of centre was once a toll house.
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