During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…
The large and magnificent Barkisland Hall loudly proclaims the middling gentry status of its builder, John Gledhill. Unique within the district in being three storeys high, it has a fully developed F-plan with a projecting porch dated 1638 and…
The former Mountain Rescue Post at the rear of Ladbrokes and AJs Fish & Chip Shop at West End. Prior to the Rescur Post it housed the stables for Westbourne house. Converted into a dwelling in 2011. The plaque reads "Rescue Post".
This picture was taken by Thomas Greenlees from outside his shop in Church Street, Todmorden, in December 1923. Being a saddler by trade, he was probably more interested in the well-turned horses than the hearse, indeed, he probably supplied the…
This view would have been taken somewhere close to North Bridge and shows the power station and other industrial buildings in the bottom end of town. Very few of the buildilngs in this picture still survive. The cooling towers were demolished in…