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PHOTO SLAITHWAITE SPA RECREATION GROUND LINTHWAITE A HEALTH SPA OPENED HERE IN 1825 WITH BATHS FED BY SULPHUR AND IRON-RICH WATER PIPED FROM SPRINGS BY RICHARD VARLEY. BY 1891 THE SLAITHWAITE SPA & HYDROPATHIC ESTABLISHMENT LTD. HAD BUILT NEW SWIMMING BATHS ACROSS THE RIVER WHEREAS ON THIS SIDE THERE WAS A GRAND HALL (APPROXIMATELY WHERE THE CHILDRENS PLAY AREA IS NOW) BANDSTAND BOWLING GREEN TENNIS COURTS AND GARDENS. A CINEMA HAD OPENED BY 1914. THE TWO SIDES OF THE RIVER WERE CONNECTED BY A WOODEN BRIDGE WHICH WAS SWEPT AWAY BY A FLOOD C.1947. IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR THE PARK WAS REQUISITIONED FOR THE TRAINING OF SOLDIERS AND AFTER THE WAR THE HALL WAS DEMOLISHED AND THE PARK NEGLECTED. IT WAS NOT UNTIL 2004 THAT VOLUNTEERS AND KIRKLEES COUNCIL STARTED TO IMPROVE THE PARK FOR RECREATION AND WILDLIFE. (INFORMATION FROM A BOARD IN THE PARK) 2007 COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) HUMPHREY BOLTONPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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