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This site was occupied for much of C20 by Lindley's Beauvoir Engineering Works which made nuts and bolts. Demolished in the early 1980s it is now the site of the Bluebell Walk Estate. The new estate on the right is on the site of Carr Field House.…

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The left hand section is dated 1885. The three gables on the right are 17th century. For further information on the history of this property see The Halifax Antiquarian Transactions 1918.

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Mitchell Bros Mill and Old Town Hall. c1957. Situated above Hebden Bridge.

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Originally Maude's, later Walkleys. Before the railway line was built the track across the field to the right hand side of this picture was the road to the hamlet of Stubb. The road disappearing off to the right towards the bottom of the picture…

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Listed as Halifax Courier 24.1.1948, but the White Horse Inn has gone, so more likely to be 1968.

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The houses on Highfield are just being built so photo probably taken in the 1950s. PH17/1

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St Michael's Church is in the centre of the picture. -PH17/2

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22nd August 1999. Looking down on Weaver's Square. PH67.

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LYRS2700. Date unknown but probably about 1970. The connections to the GNR platforms to the station front have gone as has the Platform 3 line to the rear but the track to North Bridge is still there. The only railway activity today centres on the…

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Taken on the first flight over the Calder Valley. Alice Longstaff was a passenger.

This is the newspaper report of the flight, probably written by Bernard Ingham, who was a cub reporter at the time and was also on the fight:

FLIGHT OVER THE…
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