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  • Collection: Wayne Ogden collection

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On the left is the church of St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness and far right the Hinchliffe Arms with the road up to Withens Clough Reservoir. Note the tennis court at the rear of the church.

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Postcard with January 1951 postmark. The two farms in the centre of the picture are Lower and Upper Clough Foot.

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On the left is the Sportsman Inn which closed many years ago and now a private house. On the right, by the lamp post, is the road down to St John's Church, and the Hinchliffe Arms. In the centre is the Board, ie Council, School. The car has a…

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Postcard with July 1959 postmark. Looking down Cragg Road towards Mytholmroyd. The Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is on the left.

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Undated postcard, but taken before the wholesale demolition of the 60s. St John's Church, next to Stubbings School, is still intact, and many of the High Street houses appear to be still occupied. The old Birchcliffe Chapel appears to have been…

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Postcard with postmark July 1956. Shows Widdop Road coming down from Heptonstall Slack to the bridge over Alcomden Water.

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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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Looking down the road in the Mytholmroyd direction. The newspaper bill boards are mentioning the total eclipse which took place 27th June 1927. The tram lines were lifted mid-1930s.

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Undated postcard. Centre of photo is the Dodnaze Estate with steel fabricated houses built in 1947 fronting onto Wadsworth Lane. In the centre is Calder Mill with its landmark chimney; the mill was gutted by fire November 1964.

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A steam vehicle on Burnley Road passing tennis court and bowling green on Tillotson Holme and above long lines of railway goods wagons in the Station Goods Yard, closed 1962. St Mary's Church with its 126ft spire, demolished 1980, on the hillside

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Undated postcard. St John in the Wilderness; Cragg Hall Lodge; The Falls; The Vicarage; Cragg Vale and Victoria Mill.

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Undated postcard. The farm is off to the left in Crimsworth Dean.

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Undated postcard. Looking towards Mytholmroyd. The building at the far end of the row on the left is the former fire station with the then Council Offices next door.

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Postcard dated 1956, looking over to Midgley Moor.

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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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Postcard c.1930. Looking down on the Rochdale Canal.

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Undated postcard but after erection of the War Memorial in 1922. Behind the Memorial is Grange Dean, now site of the Health Centre; note that the main road is still cobbled. The cobbles far right lead onto County Bridge.

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Undated postcard.

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Postcard with 1904 postmark. The foundation stone of the Church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Intriguingly the sender…

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

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Postcard with January 1906 postmark. Cragg Post Office is on the left and further along Cragg Vale Co-operative store with the Working Men's Club next door to that.
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