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Home Subscriptions Send us your memories Buy online Links ISSUE 7 CONTENTS Where Co-operators Set the Pace Mouth-watering Memories of Midgley More stories of local co-operative societies... When Tom Mix Came to Todmorden Our Dad's Garage at Upper Foot Then the Hills Were Alive with the Sound of Music! The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley |
When Tom Mix Came to Todmorden Brian Lever meets his Hollywood Hero:
My grandfather, Fielden Wood, had the baker's shop on Halifax Road, Todmorden. I have lots of boyhood memories of the shop, in particular the time when I was aged about four, and, dressed in a cowboy outfit, was sitting on the steps when a parade came down Halifax Road. It was led by a Hollywood cowboy on a white horse, Tom Mix I think! He stopped when he saw me sitting there all dressed up and, with my grandma's permission, lifted me onto the horse with him and we rode to the bottom of the street. What joy!
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