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This house was probably owned in the past by a mill owner. Substantial gardens accompanied the house originally, but parts were sold off for building land. The railway runs nearby in a deep wide culvert and there would have been the characteristic sounds of steam trains in the heyday of rail travel at all times of day and night. The stonework of this house had been cleaned in 1975, when this photograph was taken, but many houses nearby were blackened by sooty deposits, the legacy of the Industrial Revolution, when power and heat was supplied by coal with all the consequent pollution.