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The Curse of the Factory System by John Fielden, M.P. for Oldham. - MOT00357
Prior to the commencement of the 19th Century little thought had been given to the conditions under which factory workers were employed, whether they were children or adults.
By the early 1820s several attempts had been made to introduce…
By the early 1820s several attempts had been made to introduce…
Working Practices - MOT00366
Cotton spinning agreement 1928 as to Fencing of Machinery &c.
John Willy Tasker, labourer - MOT00412
John Willy Tasker worked as a labourer at the electricity destructor plant at Millwood.
Todmorden Bus Company - MOT00451
No 3 bus on Burnley road, near the top entrance to the park 1928-31. The bus was a Leyland Titan TD1, delivered in July 1928, and was the first of 14 buses of this type to enter service with the Todmorden motor bus undertaking. The driver is Jesse…
Bus Stop Sign - MOT00456
Todmorden bus stop sign
Todmorden & District Carriage Company Sign - MOT00462
Todmorden & District Carriage Company logo
Todmorden Co-op - MOT00457
The co-operative movement in Todmorden started in the early 19th Century and expanded rapidly for the next 100 years. From one small store, the movement grew until there were general stores in every part of the area. The main store was in Dale Street…
Stainland & Holywell Green Station. - LYR00149
LYRS 2599 - Stainland Station & Goods Shed with Railmotor No 10614 (LMS) in the later 1920s.
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners, the…
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners, the…
Halifax High Level Railway - St Paul's - LYR00180
LYRS 3462n - C.1927. Halifax St Paul's Coal Depot - general view of depot including track, wagons and buildings. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known…
Huddersfield Station Frontage 1920 - LYR00302
LYRS 4508 - The magnificent station building, now Grade I Listed. John Betjeman described the imposing frontage as 'the most splendid in England' and Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be one of the best stations in the country. Its grandeur owes much…
West End, Hebden Bridge - ALC00105
Probably early 1920s. The photo was taken at the junction of Bridge Gate, Holme Street and New Road. Many years later these premises became the Tourist Information Centre.
Bankfoot, Hebden Bridge, c1921 - ALC00130
Bankfoot Garage, with a single petrol pump, looking up towards buildings on Heptonstall Road. The left-hand drive car by the garage has a post-1921 Leeds registration number.
Carnival King and Queen, 1925 - ALC00207
The "Queen" his James Simpson, Grandfather to Lynda Parker, and the "King" is his brother Joseph Simpson.
West End, Hebden Bridge c.1924 - ALC00219
West End looking towards New Road. Date unknown but the car has a post-1921 Leeds registration number. From the far end the shops are: first three Blackburn Ironmongers; Haighs Music Shop; Westerman's Photographic Studio; Cockcrofts and Watsons. On…
Hebden Bridge - West End - ALC00332
ALC00332. West End shops in the 1920s; Blackburn Ironmongers still there as in the 1910 photograph. The gabled building on the left on the corner of Bridge Gate and New Road was demolished in 1931 for widening New Road; the cut back corner building…
Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot - ALC00344
Bankfoot Garage, with a single petrol pump, looking up towards buildings on Heptonstall Road. The left-hand drive car by the garage has a post-1921 Leeds registration number.
Hebden Bridge - Calder Holmes - ALC00354
c1929. Hebden Bridge Agricultural Show. Hebden Bridge Urban District Council purchased Calder Holmes Park in 1931 to be an open space for the town. Here we have an uninterrupted view across to Riverside School prior to the building of the Little…
Mytholmroyd. - ALC00432
1925. Burnley Road shops with the tram lines in the centre of the road, these were lifted in 1936.
Hebden Bridge - Station Warehouse - ALC00453
1920s or '30s. By this time carting had been contracted out by the LMS and here to Robertshaw Bros. A mixture of vehicles and registration plates; with the exception of the second from the right which is a Huddersfield number the rest are all…
Mytholmroyd - General View c.1920 - ALC00460
Looking down on the town and station from the south hillside. This shows how the station platforms are above the valley floor built on an embankment. The single box and buildings on the 'up' Manchester platform are supported on stilts. All now…
The Birchcliffe Hillside, Hebden Bridge, c1920 - ALC00484
The Birchcliffe Hillside, Hebden Bridge, c1920
St John the Baptist, Cragg Vale - ALC00508
Interior view, c1920
Open Top Bus, Todmorden - ALC00603
Outside the White Lion & Greyhound, Shade.
An early open top bus with external stairs at the rear to the upper deck and solid rubber tyres. Open top buses were not popular in winter and started to be replaced by covered top deck models from the…
An early open top bus with external stairs at the rear to the upper deck and solid rubber tyres. Open top buses were not popular in winter and started to be replaced by covered top deck models from the…
Oxenhope Charabanc Disaster - ALC00622
30th October 1920. An outing of 37 people from the Robin Hood Inn at Pecket Well to Keighley ended in disaster when their charabanc overturned on a bend coming down from Cock Hill to Oxenhope. Five people were killed and four seriously injured. The…