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The fifth man back, with the pipe, is Tom Horsfall, next is David Fletcher.

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Halifax Road, Todmorden, taken from above Lob Mill

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Nutclough Mill in the foreground, Yorkshire Water Board excavations behind Dodnaze estate, and the Birchcliffe Centre to the right of the centre of the picture.

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Thomas Ratcliffe & Co Ltd, Blanket Manufacturers factory can clearly be seen.

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The sorting sidings c.1950. Constructed in 1919 they were used to divide coal trains from the Yorkshire coalfields between those for the Manchester direction and those for the Burnley and north west. They operated 24 hours a day until closure in…

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With water wheel tower which contained three 30 foot diameter, 6 foot wide overshot water wheels one on top of the other.

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For more information see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/cornholmebobbinworks.htm - see also 099RD and RDA00150

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Before conversion to residential use

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Built in 1894 for the Queen Street Manufacturing Company the mill closed on the 12th March 1982 and was mothballed. The worlds only surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill. Bringing steam powered weaving to life.

On the outskirts of…

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Part of the Calderdale pre industrial museum. Postcard published by The Piece Hall, Halifax

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Built in the late 1800s. Closed in 1999 and was destroyed by fire and subsequently demolished in 2019.

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Now Innovation gift shop and cafe.

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This is a high breast-shot wheel, which would have turned clock wise.

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Kenneth Bleasby Tennent at work on foster Mill chimney.

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Centre Vale Park in the foregroud

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Queen Street Mill, Briercliffe near Burnley. 1984
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