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Welcome to the online archive.
Twixt aire and calder. Residents share the experience of living along the reaches of the aire and calder rivers over once rich coal seams. Twixt aire and calder local photography archive. Wakefield libraries twixt aire and calder.
Navigate the wakefield district in words and pictures. The city of wakefield the five towns normanton castleford pontefract featherstone and. Twixt aire and calder.
Page 1 of 4. The five towns in the second world war. Twixt is a 2011 horror thriller film written and directed by francis ford coppola starring val kilmer and elle fanning which has had screenings at film festivals.
Twixt aire calder map controls various images from the twixt aire and calder archive have been plotted close to the location where they were taken. Pontefract f c the men from pontefract association football club photographed in 1893. Heritage trails twixt aire and calder.
The village of altofts was the birthplace of elizabethan privateer sir martin frobisher c 1535 1594 and at stanley ferry a huge iron aqueduct carries the aire and calder navigation over the river calder. A huge searchable online collection of local history photographs maps and memorabilia from all the towns and villages across the wakefield district and related areas. Wakefield in the second world war a celebration of theatre images of wakefield and district ossett churches and chapels the five towns war.
Contains online versions of local parish registers trade directories and absent voter s lists. Using photographs maps memorabilia prints and eventually sound and video from the collections of wakefield metropolitan district council wmdc libraries and information services. The m1 a1 and m62 motorways that now define the area dominate the modern landscape.
Using photographs postcards maps memorabilia prints and posters from the collections of wakefield council libraries local groups and individuals this online archive of images of wakefield and district and related areas shows the diversity of life in our area both past and present. 2013 twixt celebrates its 10 th birthday. Newland hall close by was a preceptory of the knights hospitallers and was founded at the time of king john.
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