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Canal Basin Sowerby Bridge, River Calder Mytholmroyd, St Peter's Church Sowerby, Canal and Christ Church Sowerby Bridge. Postcard dated 1992.

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A canal boat off-loading stone at the corporation yard at Waterside, 1904.

With the use of water power, the output of cloth increased. This increase in trade saw the opening up of the valleys and the construction of Turn Pike Roads, with their…

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This is a good example of an upland route taken by packhorses in the years prior to the construction of the turnpike roads and canal.

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Starting in the top right corner we have the industial premises at the end of Walton Street and Sowerby Bridge Cricket Ground. The dark diagonal line is the River Calder flowing R to L. The thinner dark line is the Rochdale Canal, between the 2 is…

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NAME: ALBION MILL

LOCATION: Stackhills

REF: CD32

GRID REF: 939 241

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Fully used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: There are various buildings on this site, including a fair…

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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

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Note the narrow lock. The area around it has now been redeveloped as an industrial estate.

Built by Benjamin Outram and completed in 1797, the Ashton Canal closed in 1961 and reopened in 1974.

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Bernard with Charles Anson, former Queen's Press Secretary in Hebden Bridge in 1989 for a Walking Weekend.

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Bernard with Charles Anson, former Queen's Press Secretary in Hebden Bridge in 1989 for a Walking Weekend.

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Postcard c.1930. Looking down on the Rochdale Canal.
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