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A huge sawmill employing over 100 people making nothing but soles for clogs. For further information see: http://www.clogs.co.uk/history.htm

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Mayroyd area, Hebden Bridge. The chimney from Mayroyd Mill is just going to miss Victoria Mill. The telepone box is directly opposite the station entrance.

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Fielden Bros, Waterside Mill, Todmorden. c1912.

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This is a drying machine. After cloth was dyed or washed, it passed through this machine which consisted of cylinders, which were about 1.5 meters long and made of copper or brass. The cylinders were heated by steam and rotated thus drying the…

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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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