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Mysterious mound below Noah Dale dam, possibly of puddle clay for repairing leaking dam prior to its final collapse in 1939.

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Noah Dale Bridge over Noah Dale Water/Colden Water, c2003.

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Causeway rising Noah Dale road over marshy ground, c2003.

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Possibly Edge Lane at Colden.

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Taken from Edge Lane beyond Highgate. The farm on the far left of the photo is Higher Strines Farm and beyond that is the stream, Strines Clough. The dip in the foreground is the lane leading down past Broadstone towards Hudson Fold and eventually…

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Head teacher, Mrs Sutcliffe, is the middle lady standing in the doorway; in front of her (with the robe) is the May Queen, Ruby Rawsthorn.

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LYRS 4221 - 'Milking Brig, Colden Valley', as featured on a coloured postcards featured on a B&W postcards featured on a B&W postcard published by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway promoting days out to Hebden Bridge by train.

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Queen is Ruby Rawsthorne; train bearers: Keith Stansfield, Sheila Yomans; cushion bearer:Kenneth Collinge; young attendant is Ann Ann Marklew.

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Queen is Ruby Rawsthorne; train bearers: Keith Stansfield, Sheila Yomans; cushion bearer:Kenneth Collinge; young attendant is Ann Ann Marklew.

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c. 1900 view across Mytholm looking up Colden Valley. On the right Mytholm Hall with St James Church behind. The hall was demolished late 1960s and replaced with accommodation for the elderly. Above the church are Eaves Lower and Upper Mills…

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Date unknown. In the centre the engineering works of Pickles, later Browns, and now demolished. The Parish Church of St James to the right was built in 1832, and to the right of that is Mytholm Hall.

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The cottages of Knowl Top and Edge Hey Green, at Colden, above Heptonstall, can be seen beyond the cows.

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Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…

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Higher and Lower Lumb Mills, Lumb Bank in foreground

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Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)

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Lumb Bank at Top and below the chimney of the demolished Lower Lumb Mill.

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Postcard, published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. Colden School is on the left hand side. The row of cottages in the foreground on the right are called High Street. Towards the left at the top of the picture is Highgate Chapel.

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An early steam powered mill, built in 1861 by Colden Cotton & Commercial Company Limited, was the last to be built in the Colden Valley. It was demolished in the 1970s following a fire. Colden School can be seen left of centre. On the very left of…

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Colden Road, which runs from Mytholm to Jack Bridge, can be seen rising through the woodland. The "road" is known localley as the "Ragley".

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In the 1960's before Moderna Blankets a company called D.E.Stuttard Ltd made oil fired boilers called 'Desomatic'. R Thomas 01422 846392 as a brass plate which was attached to the boilers. Ref: 037.

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In the foreground is Colden Water, the houses top right are Lower Smithy. Colden school is to the right of the mill chimney
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