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Walsden cricket ground can be seen behind Gordon Riggs Garden Centre

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Railway line and bridge. This section of the Manchester & Leeds Railway between Hebden Bridge and Summit East was completed in December 1840.

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A good view of the cricket field with the railway line and Rochdale Canal to the left of the picture. The complex of buildings to the eft of the road is Gordon Rigg's Garden Centre.

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Looking down on Riggs Garden Centre, the cricket field and the village of Walsden from Inchfield.

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Slide 4 - In the gardens is a very large and highly finished, detached banqueting hall, of three stages, with an upper turret. The building is thickly ivy clad, and contains the arms of Vavasour and Stanley. It dates from the same period as the Hall.

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Slide 3 - The right wing of the Hall contains a deeply embayed, mullioned window, with a rich mantling of ivy, and is exceedingly picturesque. This wing is generally ascribed to the period of Henry the Seventh.

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In the bottom the Manchester & Leeds Railway which has just crossed Whiteley Arches. Above Oakville Road coming down to King Street. Savile bowling green can be seen at the top of the picture. Just below the centre is the electricity sub-station.…

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Members of Wood Top Rifle Club. Second from the right is H K Sutcliffe, Managing Director of F & H Sutcliffe's timber buildings which was then a thriving business in the valley close, to the railway station. We believe that Wood Top orginated from…

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Dated 16.06.1918 from son Percy to Mother and Father. Royal Army Medical Corps. AN70081533
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