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Todmorden - Dobroyd Crossing Signal Box - LYR00280
LYRS 3825 - c.1890. On the carriage drive to Dobroyd Castle. "The level crossing at Dobroyd was controlled from this quaint, doll's house-style structure, first erected in 1872, and replaced in 1901. The job of crossing keeper was an occupational…
Todmorden - Dobroyd Crossing. - LYR00281
LYRS 8691 - The Level Crossing, Cottage & Warehouse probably late 1960s. The structural outline on the cottage end wall was where the tiny Single Box was situated. The crossing is now pedestrian only and the buildings have gone.
Todmorden - Dobroyd Crossing - LYR00282
LYRS 8692 - Level Crossing gates from the east side probably in the late 1960s. Once on the carriage drive to Dobroyd Castle it is now a pedestrian crossing only and the cottage on the far right has gone.
Dobroyd Castle - ALC00674
John Fielden, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle on top of the…
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - ALC05141
Joshua Fielden’s brother John, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle…
Shade, Todmorden - RDA00112
View over Shade School to Dobroyd Castle on the far hillside.
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - RDA00129
The home of the Fielden family. The castle was built for John Fielden between 1866 and 1869 at a cost of £71,589. In the mid-twentieth century it became an approved school, then a Buddhist Retreat and is currently used as an Activity Centre for…
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - TAL00201
AN 70083401
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - TAL00202
AN 3413180X
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - TAL00203
AN 3413180X
Postcard of Todmorden - TAL00411
AN 70083280
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - TAL00491
AN 69927843
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - TAL00492
AN 69927843
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - TAL00493
AN 69927843
Todmorden Postcards - TAL00496
AN 69927720
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden, 2008 - CRN00470
Looking towards Gaddings Edge, with the ever present Stoodley Pike top left. The Unitarian Church spire can be seen bottom centre.