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Joseph Hirst, Company Secretary at the start valve at Fielden's Waterside Mill, Todmorden.

Ian Coats after his accident

Ernest Pollard, Mill Engineer

To the right hand side you can just see part of Charlie Crabtree's Mill.

Vent for the aquduct carrying water from the reservoirs in the upper valley to Mount Tabor. From there it went to the treatment works in Halifax. The stone structure is built on top of the spoil fromthe shaft. Note the plain coping compared to the…

Effects were auctioned off in a marquee at Greenwood Lee. Derek's mum bought a copper jam pan.

The BBC broadcast a Worker's Playtime from the canteen in the 1950s. Part of the mill can be seen in the background. Lily Young is front row left hand side, back row left hand side is Mrs Gough whose husband worked in the mill..

The BBC broadcast a "Workers Playtime" from the canteen in the 1950s.

Ada Arden, on the right, taken outside Hymans Corner Cafe in the Square, Hebden Bridge.

Ada was mother-in-law to Derek Pollard and she and her husband were Aunt and Uncle to Dorothy Hyman, who was an Olympic athlete in the 60s.

Ada (nee Middleton) was Lily Young's sister and Derek's mother-in-law. Her husband, George Thomas Arden is buried in Thailand at Chungkai War Cemetery next to the bridge overthe River Kwai. He was in RAF 84 Squadron.

The café was owned in the 1950s by Charlie Hyman and Mrs. Hyman. Their niece Dorothy Hyman was an Olympic runner. Ada Arden lived at Shawcroft Hill, Pecket Well. She was a war widow, her husband, George Thomas Arden is buried in Thailand at Chungkai…