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Looking down the valley.

Looking down the valley.

Black Pit Lock prior to restoration in the mid-1980s. On the right the Central Dye Works is now apartments with an extra storey added. This shows the aqueduct which carries the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder.

On the skyline is the tower of Dobroyd Castle, a mock gothic Victorian pile built by cotton magnate John Fielden Junior.

On the skyline is the tower of Dobroyd Castle, a mock gothic Victorian pile built by cotton magnate John Fielden Junior.

Library Lock Rochdale Canal

Longlees Lock

Library Lock on the Rochdale Canal, with the railway line at the back of the picture. The 'Great wall of Tod' just visible below the railway line which was built in 1881 to support the goods yard and Fielden's sidings when they were extended. Bottom…