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Weaving at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00111
Ethel Crabtree at Work. On her right is a dobby, a mechanism for pattern weaving.
Watty Place Mill, Gauxholme - HPC00375
NAME: WATTY PLACE MILL
LOCATION: Gauxholme
REF: CD23
GRID REF: 927 231
CLASSIFICATION: B
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This is really a corn mill site, and it is unlikely textiles…
LOCATION: Gauxholme
REF: CD23
GRID REF: 927 231
CLASSIFICATION: B
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This is really a corn mill site, and it is unlikely textiles…
Waterstalls, Bottomley, Walsden - HPC00317
NAME: WATERSTALLS MILL
LOCATION: Bottomley
REF: CD1
GRID REF: 943 212
CLASSIFICATION: A
CONDITION: Ruins
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Perched high on the westerly facing hillside of…
LOCATION: Bottomley
REF: CD1
GRID REF: 943 212
CLASSIFICATION: A
CONDITION: Ruins
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Perched high on the westerly facing hillside of…
Waterstalls - HPC00365
NAME: WATERSTALLS MILL
LOCATION: Bottomley
REF: CD1
GRID REF: 943 212
CLASSIFICATION: A
CONDITION: Ruins
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Perched high on the westerly facing hillside of Walsden Water, only…
LOCATION: Bottomley
REF: CD1
GRID REF: 943 212
CLASSIFICATION: A
CONDITION: Ruins
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Perched high on the westerly facing hillside of Walsden Water, only…
Waterside Mills, Rochdale Road, Todmorden - TAS00973
The former technical college is on the left.
Waterside Mill - MOT00180
During the hey-day of the weaving activities the sheds were powered by a pair of steam engines of 1,000 hp, which were named 'Sam' and 'John' after the two eldest surviving Fielden sons. The photograph shows Leslie Baron who was in charge of the…
Waterside c1866 - MOT00179
The three cottages in the centre of the picture were the homes and workplaces of the entrepreneurial Fielden family who moved there from Edge End in 1782. The various stages of expansion can be seen in the five-storey building which was a spinning…
Waterside and Todmorden from the West - RDA00125
In the foreground is the railway line curving to the goods yard, with the station in the distance. Centre right is Fielden’s Waterside Mill next to the Rochdale Canal. To the right is the spire of the Unitarian Church, which was also built by the…
Waterside After the Fire - MOT00469
Waterside Mill fire 1901 - On 17th June 1901 fire destroyed the old spinning mill belonging to Fielden Bros. Built around 1800 and adjoining the Laneside cottages, the four-storey building was the first of many extensions and additions that would…
Waterside Mill, Todmorden, 1983 - TNC00367.tif
Waterside Mill on Rochdale Road, now the site of Morrisons Supermarket.
Waterside - MOT00181
A view across the 'New' shed at Waterside in 1912. Interior of the large weaving shed at Waterside in 1912. It is now the site of the Morrisons Supermarket.
Water Street in Todmorden, February 1971 - JSB00127
Possibly Mr Collins of Heptonstall.
Water powered mills on the line of Lumbutts Clough - MOT00151
Water powered mills on the line of Lumbutts Clough in Causey Wood.
Causey Wood Mill was constructed by Firth and Haworth in 1826 for cotton spinning. At the time of this photograph it had been derelict for some years and was demolished soon after…
Causey Wood Mill was constructed by Firth and Haworth in 1826 for cotton spinning. At the time of this photograph it had been derelict for some years and was demolished soon after…
Water Power. Jumps Mill, Lydgate - MOT00161
The larger building in this view is an original water-powered mill, which was never converted to steam power.
Water Power - MOT00164
Another Fielden Mill utilising water power with a unique system of three waterwheels, each fed by a stepped series of dams. This mill was later converted to steam power. Lumbutts Mill and Jumb Mill were interconnected by a conveyor system which…
Water Power - MOT00163
Lumbutts Mill 1900s - In addition to the parent mill at Waterside, Fielden Bros owned several smaller mills in the valleys around Todmorden, almost all of which were used for spinning purposes. Two of these were situated in the Lumbutts Clough - the…
Water Power - MOT00162
Lumbutts in the 1900s.
Water Power - MOT00157
Waterstalls Mill, Walsden. One of the earliest examples of a Fielden owned cotton mill, the ruins of which still bear evidence to the harnessing of water power for the spinning industry, comprising three dams feeding a large water wheel which, in…
Water Power - MOT00155
Waterstalls Mill, Walsden. One of the earliest examples of a Fielden owned cotton mill, the ruins of which still bear evidence to the harnessing of water power for the spinning industry, comprising three dams feeding a large water wheel which, in…
Water Power - MOT00154
Waterstalls Mill, Walsden. One of the earliest examples of a Fielden owned cotton mill, the ruins of which still bear evidence to the harnessing of water power for the spinning industry, comprising three dams feeding a large water wheel which, in…
Washpit Mills, Holmfirth - HPC00251
NAME: WASHPIT MILLS
LOCATION: Washpit
REF: HU 21
GRID REF: 143 067
CLASSIFICATION: B and C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C – 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Situated just above Green Lane…
LOCATION: Washpit
REF: HU 21
GRID REF: 143 067
CLASSIFICATION: B and C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C – 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Situated just above Green Lane…
Washpit - HPC00271
NAME: WASHPIT MILLS
LOCATION: Washpit
REF: HU 21
GRID REF: 143 067
CLASSIFICATION: B and C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C – 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Situated just above Green Lane…
LOCATION: Washpit
REF: HU 21
GRID REF: 143 067
CLASSIFICATION: B and C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C – 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Situated just above Green Lane…