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http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC05003.jpg
Pecket Shed in the background, Pecket Well Chapel to the right.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06176.jpg
Picture probably taken from Beacon Hill, shows Hunger Hill in the centre with The Shay Stadium (then both Football and Speedway) to the left and below that the industrial area around Water Hill. To the top right of the picture can be seen the then…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06177.jpg
To the right centre of the view can be seen Hunger Hill with The Shay Stadium to the left of it and Shaw Lodge flats at the very left. In the foreground is the industrial area around Water Hill and the railway line can be seen crossing the picture…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/LYR00175.jpg
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…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/ALC05044.jpg
c1968. Ref: A192007

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/ALC05045.jpg
Dodnaze housing estate can be seen in the top right hand corner of the photo. The River Hebden is in the centre of the photograph. In the bottom left hand corner are the four blocks of flats built in the 1970's and subsequently demolished.

Ref:…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/ALC05046.jpg
The River Hebden can be seen joining the River Calder in the lower centre of the photograph. Calder Holmes Park can be seen in the bottom righthand corner of the photograph with the adjacent gas holder. A192009

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/ALC05049.jpg
The trees indicate the line of Hebden Water, the driveway from Lodge Gates can be seen making its way to Gibson Mill and beyond snaking through the trees. The shoulder of the hill to the right in the photograph is Shackleton Hill and the road on the…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/ALC04484.jpg
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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