Mabel' passing 'Ellen' at Derdale. All the Rochdale Canal Company boats were named after women or flowers. In this photograph, flour from Stansfield Corn Mill is being hoisted into the barge.
Programme from a production at the Theatre Royal in 1883. Note the 'Distinguished Patronage and Presence of John Fielden' of Dobroyd Castle. Also, the addresses of the distinguished persons!
Foster Holme. Nutclough Mill has been extended on one side only. The old Birchcliffe Chapel is in the centre towards the top of the picture, with High Hurst behind it.
The low white building to the right is Palace House or 'Pallisser's House', the home of the pallisser who looked after the fence or pallisade around the deer park which used to occupy the land now called Erringden. New Road is in the background. …
Nutclough Mill has just been extended upwards. The Birchcliffe hillside has yet to be developed, but the old Birchcliffe Chapel can be seen near the top of the picture.