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Title: Dawson City, Heptonstall - EIL00121
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Title
Dawson City, Heptonstall - EIL00121
Description
Named after the town of Dawson City in The Yukon in Canada which experienced the Klondike Gold Rush towards the end of the 19th century, this place, above Whitehill Nook, Heptonstall, was well established by the time of the 1901 census.
There were about 10 huts occupied by families and their boarders, and about 12 huts unoccupied or in the process of building. Most residents were navvies or engine drivers.
By the 1911 census there were only two resident families: William Seagrave Langford (family and boarders) and Thomas Stanger Boon, an engine driver, with his wife Mary Elizabeth. During the building of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs many navvies and other workers were housed in local farm buildings and cottages which had fallen out of use. Postcard.
There were about 10 huts occupied by families and their boarders, and about 12 huts unoccupied or in the process of building. Most residents were navvies or engine drivers.
By the 1911 census there were only two resident families: William Seagrave Langford (family and boarders) and Thomas Stanger Boon, an engine driver, with his wife Mary Elizabeth. During the building of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs many navvies and other workers were housed in local farm buildings and cottages which had fallen out of use. Postcard.
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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PHDA - Eileen Longbottom Collection
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
EIL00121.tif
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Citation
“Dawson City, Heptonstall - EIL00121,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/19257.
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