This look like a woollen card hopper, but actually the photo was taken in the Blowing Room and shows a hopper opener, feeding a line of machines leading to the scutcher. Cotton comes in press-packed bales, and it must be loosened up or 'opened' and…
The aqueduct carrying the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder. On the left Central Dyeworks now enlarged and converted into apartments Above the aqueduct Queens Terrace on Heptonstall Road. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The building in the centre of the picture is the rear of the shops fronting onto Bridge Gate that were demolished, the space is now occupied by a car park. The foreground is the river wall.
The picture shows the Warping or Beaming department, technically this is back beam warping, the usual practice in the cotton industry, as opposed to section warping in the woollen and worsted trades. A very large unit!
Foster Mill far left, Hangingroyd Mill in the centre and above that Nutclough Mill. Birchcliffe Road climbing up the undeveloped hillside with the first Birchcliffe Chapel and grave yard to its left.