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c1910. As we come down the hillside and along Heptonstall Road we pass Cross Lane Chapel (United Methodists) on the right of the picture. Further down the road we approach Queens Terrace and Albion Terrace.

On the left of the picture, beyond the…

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Originally called Underbank Dyeworks it was used for dying silk, having two dye sheds. The remains of the mill dam which was fed by a goit from Jumble Hole Clough, can still be seen above the mill. nearby is Underbank Hall

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Looking down Rudd Lane, several mills appear to be in the process of demolition. The church is St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

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View over Hebden Bridge towards Old Town. Formerly BT551.

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Unveiling the War Memorial at Mytholmroyd, 2nd July 1922. A brass band in attendance. Red Acre gas works can be seen on left. The inscription says: 75 men lost in the Great War. 75 tragic homes. 75 young women without a husband.

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An early steam powered mill, built in 1861 by Colden Cotton & Commercial Company Limited, was the last to be built in the Colden Valley. It was demolished in the 1970s following a fire. Colden School can be seen left of centre. On the very left of…

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Pencil note on back of print says 16.3.25 . Also "In 1952 1/2 ??"

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The chimneys of Lumb Mill show above the trees, with Lumb Bank in the centre of the picture, and top left the houses of slack. Postcard, published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse

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pencil notes on back "RGS in 2/1952 BS of plates Marked on base"

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Looking along the Calder Valley towards Todmorden.

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Grange Mill chimney was a towering landmark in Mytholmroyd until 1898 when it was demolished in spectacular style.

A newspaper report at the time stated: "Crowds gathered in Mytholmroyd in 1897 to watch the fall of a giant. As it tumbled the…

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Lumb Bank at Top and below the chimney of the demolished Lower Lumb Mill.

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Mytholm Hall in the foreground, with St James church behind, and Eaves Mill behind that. Heptonstall church is on the sky-line

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Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)

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Postcard. Addressed to Mrs Ada Helliwell, sent c/o address in Birkby, Huddersfield, by her husband Jim

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Visitors to Hardcastle Crags walking past Lee Mill; demolished about 1970 but by then no longer used as acotton mill. Peckett Well War Memorial on the skyline. Postcard
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