The horse-drawn fire tender with its crew are photographed on Rochdale Road before joining a procession, about 1905. The man holding the horse is John Hamer Hollinrake who, in 1911, became the Chief Fire Officer.
Raymond G Sunderland started learning the organ at the age of 12 and until he was 16 he studied with his father, the organist of Broadstone Baptist Church, Colden.
During the Second World War he served in the Royal Armoured Corps and in 1944-45,…
An afternoon to celebrate the unveiling of the new head for the soldier on the war memorial at Mytholmroyd. Rev James Allison and local school children.
Sam, Gracie, nee Hartley, and their daughter Ethel who sadly died of typhoid when only 16 years old. They are all buried in Heptonstall Methodist Churchyard.
The Charter Day procession, 22nd August 1896. The procession, headed by the county police, is passing under the railway viaduct on Burnley Road. The building on the right is Ormerod's Mill.
Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt is standing on the left. He was in the 2/10 Manchester Regiment. He enlisted in 1916 whilst living and working as a printer/compositor in Manchester. His mother and his wife's family lived in Luddenden, where they had…