From: Jane Wood, media officer at Skipton East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership, Barnoldswick.
In the 1870s, James Emmott worked as a farmer, grave-digger, road-builder and quarryman in Cowling, on the Yorkshire side of the county border between Barnoldswick and Keighley.
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