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  • Collection: Todmorden Mills

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Drawing of Hough Stone Cottage by unknown artist.

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Just before the bend to Lobb Mill on the left, was Cinder Hill Mill, now demolished and replaced by houses.

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The mill, demolished in the 1950s, was situated on Halifax road, Todmorden, adjacent to the river, on the site now occupied by flats.

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Now the site of Fielden Factors. Harry Ingham stored buses here. The brown corrugated roof (the tin shop) was Blackburn's car repairers, is now (2015) Bentley's Mobility Shop.

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Hare Mill was built in 1907; the first sod was cut on 1 June 1907. It had cost £218,285 to build, and there were financial and boardroom problems and the mill finally opened in August 1912. A second identical mill was proposed, but never built. There…

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Greens Mill in the background

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The cottages nearest the mill were demolished to make way for a loading bay.

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Heap and Ashworth, from Bacup and Rossendale, worked at CALDERVALE weaving shed throughout the depression of the cotton famine. After 4 or 5 years there, they built a weaving shed for 400 looms and a carding and spinning mill at Frostholme, near the…

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The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 'Copy Pit' Line between Todmorden and Burnley passing Wilson's 'Bobbin Mill'.
"Wilson's Bobbin Mill once dominated the village of Cornholme. The vast four-storey building, with its eye-catching clock bridge…

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The gantry across the road was pulled down C.1950.

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The mill after its conversion to apartments.

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Showing the waterwheel tower. and following conversion to apartments
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