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  • Collection: Wayne Ogden collection

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

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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 1935 postmark looking over to Midgley Moor.

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

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A diesel hauled goods train heading west.

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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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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 April 1905 postmark and the image is prior to the construction of the new Birchcliffe Chapel in 1897/8. The gable end of Palace House can just be seen on the left.

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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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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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Looking down Cragg Road towards Mytholmroyd. The Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is on the left.

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Postcard with 1917 postmark. This church, built in 1838 to replace a smaller church constructed in 1813, was paid for from the 'million pound fund'. An Act of Parliament allocated £1 million to build churches in the rapidly expanding industrial areas…

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Postcard with handwritten note on the reverse: '1912 CRAGG VALE. Front Robert Blatchford,3rd front James Benson, rear 3rd from right Helen Benson.

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The church opened Good Friday 1859 with the lower part used as a school for mill workers. The church has closed and the building converted into dwellings.

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Holmes Park and Recreation Ground on the left.
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