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In the centre are Thornber poultry houses and just above them Scarbottom Mill. Towards the top of the picture is Calder High School with Ewood above it Banksfield Estate to the left.

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The railway line runs through the picture, on the far right is Banksfield Estate. Redacre sewerage works is in the centre towards the top and above it Broadbottom Farm.

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Showing the outline of the goit to the waterwheel at Grange Mill.

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View of Mytholmroyd with Thornber's holdings identified. A is Top Land, The Hatchery on Hall Bank Lane, C is Square Works, D is Elphaborough, and D Dean Hey.

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An aerial view showing Thorber's breeding pens. Banksfield Estate is top left; the railway line crosses the picture and the sidings with many trucks can be seen.

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Detail of THB00106 showing Top Land, Square Works and Elphaborough. Also shows Scarbottom Mill.

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Bottom left are the brooder houses at Elphaborough and centre is Scarbottom Mill. Towards the top on the left is Square Works, which was originally part of Maude's Clog Soles, but after the death of James Maude the mill was bought by Thornbers and…

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Elphaborough is on the bottom left of the picture, Hall Bank Lane winds its way across and up the picture. The fields are divided into neat areas for controlled breeding.

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Elphaborough is on the bottom left of the picture, Hall Bank Lane winds its way across and up the picture. The fields are divided into neat areas for controlled breeding.

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The large mill complex in the centre is Thomas Ratcliffe's Albert Mills, later Moderna Mill. Note the railway sidings, left, and the gas holder to the right of the river near the top of the picture. The light coloured building to the right was the…

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Thomas Ratcliffe's Albert Mills, later Moderna Mill, and the railway sidings.

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Moor End Road runs down the right of the picture. Webster's Ovenden Wood Breweryis in the centre. To the left you can see Wheatley Viaduct on the Halifax High Level Railway. Halifax town centre is top centre.

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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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The diagonal road is Hollins Mill Lane, the road across the bottom is Hollins Lane, the area bottom right is known as Hill Top.

The open area in the centre bellow the river is the site of Hollins Mill.

The area above the river on the left is…

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Starting in the top right corner we have the industial premises at the end of Walton Street and Sowerby Bridge Cricket Ground. The dark diagonal line is the River Calder flowing R to L. The thinner dark line is the Rochdale Canal, between the 2 is…
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