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http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00348.jpg
The original was destroyed by fire in 1999 and a new one built to this original design. The figure in the photograph is Beryl Martin with dog 'Juno".

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00458.jpg
This was the home of John Fielden MP who bought the Centre Vale estate in 1842 from local cotton mill owner, Thomas Ramsbottom, who built the original house. The mansion was used as a hospital during the First World War and later opened as a museum.…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/HLS00195.jpg
In the foreground the station warehouse and sidings and above them across Calder Holmes is Crossley Mill.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/HLS01202.jpg
From left to right across the picture, Calder Holmes Park, Riverside School, Blackpit Aqueduct, Melbourne Mill, and the former Neptune Inn. From a Geoff Boswell calendar, 2004. PH84.

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Victoria Bridge carries Station Road over the Calder; it was built in 1855 replacing a timber trestle bridge built for the station in 1839/40. The weir was to direct water to the wheelhouse for Mayroyd Mill. Just visible in the background Queens…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/HLS05032.jpg
General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.

Centre right…

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Date unknown but seemingly prior to the building of the Council offices in 1897/8 but after the enlargement of the impressive Co-op building with its clock tower in 1889, seen here behind Hope Baptist Chapel.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/HLS05036.jpg
Crossley Mills in the centre of the picture, note the number of railway trucks in the foreground.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/LLG00182.jpg
This is an annual event on the first weekend in August.
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