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On the skyline is the tower of Dobroyd Castle, a mock gothic Victorian pile built by cotton magnate John Fielden Junior.

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Above the barge is the Picture House and opposite Hope Baptist Chapel. The timber structures have been replaced with a building providing appartments on the upper floor and various facilities on the ground floor including Visitor Information Centre.

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Above the barge is the Picture House and opposite Hope Baptist Chapel. The timber structures have been replaced with a building providing appartments on the upper floor and various facilities on the ground floor including Visitor Information Centre.

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On the skyline is the tower of Dobroyd Castle, a mock gothic Victorian pile built by cotton magnate John Fielden Junior.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BIM00464.jpg
Above the barge is the Picture House and opposite Hope Baptist Chapel. The timber structures have been replaced with a building providing appartments on the upper floor and various facilities on the ground floor including Visitor Information Centre.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/BIM00463.jpg
Above the barge is the Picture House and opposite Hope Baptist Chapel. The timber structures have been replaced with a building providing appartments on the upper floor and various facilities on the ground floor including Visitor Information Centre.

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Tuel Lane Lock was built in 1996 as part of the canal's restoration, and replaces two previous locks, locks 3 and 4, from the original canal system. With a fall of 19 feet 8.5 inches (6 m), it is the deepest lock in the United Kingdom. The official…

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3rd May, 1996. Celebrating the re-opening of the Rochdale Canal through Sowerby Bridge with the construction of Tuel Lane Lock, now the deepest inland waterway lock in the UK at 19ft 8½inches, connecting to the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

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This is Waylon, the 1st broadbeam barge to pass through the new deep lock at Sowerby Bridge on 5.5.96 for the official opening. It took a party of vips to a civic reception in Hebden Bridge. It is here passing Corporation Mill in Sowerby Bridge.

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Canal Basin on the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

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1904/05 and a busy industrial scene, looking east towards Todmorden. To the right can be seen a section of the long, low viaduct, and further in the distance the bow string bridge with its castellated abutments. In the centre foreground is the…

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Built by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1840 and always known by them as Gauxholme Bridge but locally referred to as Coppras House Bridge. It was one of the very first Bow String Bridges in the country along with Whiteley Arches, near Hebden…

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Looking down the Calder Valley with the Rochdale Canal in the foreground. On the far hillside stands Cross Stone Church.

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A rambling viaduct of 17 stone spans of 35ft and 1 of 60ft plus the iron span bridge over the Rochdale Canal, much plainer than its more famous neighbour to the east of the viaduct.
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