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Mayor of Todmorden, Dr Stella Mather, nee Brown with Mr John Graham, Headmaster of Cornholme School presenting a watch to teacher, Miss Barker for her retirement / long service.

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Later this became Glen Cottage and then Cornholme Working Men's Club. On the right is Woodbine Terrace.

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The Chapel was built in 1854 largely through the efforts of the Wilson Family of Wilson’s Bobbin Works and then the school in 1881. The chapel closed in 1968 and the school was then used as a chapel until that too closed in 1985 due to structural…

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Procession to Cornholme Parish Church.

F. Mills, Mayor

Councillors: Ellis Scholfield, Eric Dennett?, Bernard Crowther, Albert Marshall, Keith Cockcroft

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Cornholme Liberal Club

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All Saints Church, Harley Wood, Lydgate opened 1858 and was demolished in 1975 following closure.

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A bus negotiating the original and then the new metal bridge

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This photograph was taken during works to replace the stone arch with a metal bridge.

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As buses became taller, the bridge became a hazard and, after several accidents, it was replaced by a taller, metal structure.

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The original low, stone arched railway bridge between Cornholme and Portsmouth became a danger to passengers on the upper-deck of open-top buses, it was replaced by a metal girder bridge in 1934.

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The original low, stone arched railway bridge between Cornholme and Portsmouth became a danger to passengers on the upper-deck of open-top buses, it was replaced by a metal girder bridge in 1934.

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The original low stone arched railway bridge between Cornholme and Portsmouth.

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All Saints Church, Harley Wood, Lydgate opened 1858 and was demolished in 1975 following closure.

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NAME: GLEN DYEWORKS

LOCATION: Pudsey, Cornholme

REF: CD 56

GRID REF: 908 265

CLASSIFICATION: C

CONDITION: Fully used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C/early 20C (site earlier)

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Quite a large site in the…

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Built in 1860, the mill was enlarged and developed under the ownership of Joshua Smith Ltd who ran it from 1882 until well into the 1950s. At one time they employed over 700 people in Cornholme, primarily in the weaving industry.

After Joshua…

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The mill on Burnley Road was originally a cotton mill built in 1861 with subsequent extensions. Now occupied by furniture manufacturers.

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Heap and Ashworth, from Bacup and Rossendale, worked at CALDERVALE weaving shed throughout the depression of the cotton famine. After 4 or 5 years there, they built a weaving shed for 400 looms and a carding and spinning mill at Frostholme, near the…

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The cottages nearest the mill were demolished to make way for a loading bay.

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Opened 1902 for the workpeople of Frostholme Mill

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NAME: FROSTHOLME MILL

LOCATION: Burnley Road, Cornholme

REF: CD 53

GRID REF: 907 163

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Mostly used

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

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: An impressive, four storey, mainly…

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Mr Crabtree is in the foreground. Per (Photo by?) the late Mr F Anderson, 169 Manchester Road, Burnley who died in 1988.AN 55941158

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Towering above the 'Staff of Life Inn' on Burnley Road between Cornholme and Todmorden it was the subject of supernatural legend.
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