Postcard dated October 1918. Message reads: Dear Willie, Just a note to say how sorry I were not to send your paper last week the same as usual. I were expecting you coming and this week I left the paper at my work on Friday night, so I am sure you…
NAME: LONGBOTTOM MILL
LOCATION: Long Bottom
REF: CD 152
GRID REF: 042 241
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A woollen mill was first recorded on this site in 1784, and it continued…
NAME: LONGBOTTOM MILL
LOCATION: Long Bottom
REF: CD 152
GRID REF: 042 241
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A woollen mill was first recorded on this site in 1784, and it continued…
Originally a corn mill and latter a fulling mill in 1599, it was rebuilt in 1787. It was used to produce Worsted cloth between 1829 and 1847, James Clay who owned this mill and many others in the Calderdale area emplyed 1100 operatives in total in…
NAME: FAIRLEA MILL
LOCATION: Ellen Holme, Luddenden Foot
REF: CD 149
GRID REF: 038 245
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early 20C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Built at a similar date to Ellen Holme Mill next door, this…
Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646. reconstruction Luddendenfoot to Mytholmroyd. At Delph Mills, Luddenden Foot, looking towards Mytholmroyd Before improvement. Delph Mill closed in 1970 and was subsequently demolished.
Looking down the road in the Mytholmroyd direction. The newspaper bill boards are mentioning the total eclipse which took place 27th June 1927. The tram lines were lifted mid-1930s.