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Title: Todmorden Businessmen on an Outing - MOT00404
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Title
Todmorden Businessmen on an Outing - MOT00404
Description
Prominent Todmordians - This group portrait - or holiday snap - of prominent Todmordians is thought to have been taken at Reivaux Abbey while they were on an outing to North Yorkshire in the early 1870s. At the rear, left, is Edward Lord - senior partner of Lord Brothers, manufacturers of textile machinery. He lived at Adamroyd and died in 1875, aged 63. On the right: Abraham Ormerod, of Ridgefoot - mill owner, cotton manufacturer, Gas Company chairman and magistrate. He died at Torquay in 1888, aged 83. At the front, left: William Shackleton (1828-1896) of Vale (Manse) House, Cornholme - cotton manufacturer and prominent freemason. Centre: Thomas Knowles (1832-1885), a landowner with private means, died at the White Hart Inn where he had lived for several years. Right: John Whitaker (1825-1877) of Langfield House, was a cotton sizer.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Todmorden Information Centre Trust
Date
1870s
Rights
PHDA - Todmorden Information Centre Trust
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
MOT00404.tif
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Todmorden Businessmen on an Outing - MOT00404,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/10741.
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