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Very large mill - Wlson Bros, Bobbin Manufacturers - demolished before erection of flats. Scanned from photograph

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NAME: CALDERVALE MILL
LOCATION: Cornholme
REF: CD 55
GRID REF: 907 264
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid to late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Probably built soon after 1850, this site was originally…

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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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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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NAME: CALDERVALE MILL

LOCATION: Cornholme

REF: CD 55

GRID REF: 907 264

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Fully used

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

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Probably built soon after 1850, this site was…

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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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LYRS 3810 - The railway siding off the Todmorden - Burnley line behind Jobling Terrace was the coal depot for Cornholme and a collecting point for coal merchants but it was closed after the First World War.

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For the Methodist Sunday School Centenery in 1980 they had a parade of sunday School Queens.

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Parade of Sunday School Queens. Rachel Kerr, Andrew Wilkinson, Marie Chaffer, Gillian Clark, 1978 - Cheryl Wilkinson, 1979 - Helen Mycock, 1974 - Liz Jackson, 1975 - Janet Bairstow, 1964 - Susan Collinge, 1966 - Joy Crossley, 1967 - Ann Lightburn,…

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Burnley and District Sunday School League Charity Cup Winners.

Back row - Will Greenwood, Billy Coulton, Stephen Crowther, Gordon Whitehead (trainer), Geoffrey Newham (goalie), Stanley Coulton, Peter Brownbridge, Joseph Jackson (Reserve?).

Front…

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Back row - L to R

Rev. A. Hunt, Billy Coulton, Gordon Whitehead, Bob Simpson, Lewis Blacka, Jack Nesbitt, Norman Stansfield, Will Greenwood.

Front row and kneeling - L to R

Wallace Pickles, Stanley Coulton, Wally Winter, Jimmy Collinge,…

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Alice Dawson, Janet Mallison, Phyllis Stansfield, Mona Crowther, Mary Helliwell, Vera Whittaker, Lizzie Higgin.

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Are they preparing for Harvest Festival?
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