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Probably taken in the early 1960s. Slack Baptist Chapel is in the triangle of roads, one leading to Widdop and the other to Colden and Blackshaw. The building on the right of the road almost in the centre of the picture is Robertshaw Farm where…

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Date unknown but prior to the demolition of dwellings on Commercial Street, Garden Street and Buttress Brink in the mid-1960s.

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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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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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c1968. Ref: A192007

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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:…

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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

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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…
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