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On the far hillside the newly built houses on the Banksfield Estate, built as post-war housing, date this photo to around 1948

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The parish church was built in 1847 in Early English style. It was badly damaged in the 2015 floods but has since re-opened. The Sunday school in front of the church was reduced to one storey and is now used as a community hall and meeting spaces…

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This picture of the interior of Mytholmroyd Parish Church, painted by Mr Joseph Mac Fall, Stationmaster and sometime churchwarden, was presented by the teachers and friends of the Sunday School on Christmas Day 1852 to the Rev. William Baldwin as a…

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Undated postcard. Looking down the River Calder from Caldene Bridge. The roof of the Sunday school building over the bridge has since been lowered.

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Undated postcard. Taken outside St Michael's Sunday School. A note on the reverse gives the Vicar as Thomas Metcalfe and John Willie Fielding centre front and on the right hand side Elsie Hargreaves.

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Undated postcard showing an 1849 engraving of the church. The foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. Enlarged in 1887, the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small…

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Postcard with 1958 postmark. The foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848; it was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for the new chancel. The mosaics were added in 1928/9.

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Postcard with 1904 postmark. The foundation stone of the Church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Intriguingly the sender…

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Postcard with 1953 postmark. The foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848, was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small octagonal spire on…

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Postcard with possible 1909 postmark. The foundation stone for the Church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively…

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Post card with 1917 postmark. The foundation stone for the church was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a…

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Undated postcard. The Church foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated in 1848. The church was enlarged in 1887 and the following year the foundation stone was laid for a new chancel. Distinctively it has a small octagonal…

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Postcard with 1917 postmark. This church, built in 1838 to replace a smaller church constructed in 1813, was paid for from the 'million pound fund'. An Act of Parliament allocated £1 million to build churches in the rapidly expanding industrial areas…

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Interested spectators early one Sunday morning in 1988. Watching the installation of the new footbridge in Mytholmroyd.
W Hancock, F Whittaker, D Knowls, A Dobson, E Langford and F Birkley.

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The chalybeate well that gives the area its name is to the left of this picture.

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Southfield was occupied, up to his death in 1976 by Walter Farrar. Walter was the uncle of poet laureate Ted Hughes and the subject of some of his poetry relating to Walter's service in the Great War. "My Uncle's Wound" and "Under High Wood" told of…

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Southfield was occupied, up to his death in 1976 by Walter Farrar. Walter was the uncle of poet laureate Ted Hughes and the subject of some of his poetry relating to Walter's service in the Great War. "My Uncle's Wound" and "Under High Wood" told of…
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