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Cornholme Bobbin Works, Todmorden.

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NAME: WILDSPUR MILL

LOCATION: Near New Mill

REF: HU 34. HPC00319

GRID REF: 162 082

CLASSIFICATION: C

CONDITION: Semi used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C (site earlier?)

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Just downstream from Valley Mills…

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1933. The bowstring bridge over the Rochdale Canal; when built in 1840 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway it was one of the first such in the country. It was replaced in 1939 with the metal trough bridge we see today. To the left Canalside Mill…

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View of the White Lion from Keighley Road; behind which is Linden Mill and then the houses on Heptonstall Road.

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NAME: WHITE LEE MILL
LOCATION: White Lee, Mytholmroyd
REF: CD 128
GRID REF: 016 262
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mostly 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Located next to the old hamlet of White Lee.…

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Cornelius Giblin, Warp Twister at Greenwood Stell & Sons Ltd.

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NAME: WESTFIELD MILL

LOCATION: (Just off) Halifax Road, Mytholmroyd

REF: CD125

GRID REF: 012 262

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Semi used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C/early 20C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A late 19C mill most of which…

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Across the river the rear of Bridge Mill and outside seating at Innovation Cafe.

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Beryl Martin with Juno Scanned from photograph

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When weaving ceased this building became a Dyehouse and was later demolished.

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Ethel Crabtree at Work. On her right is a dobby, a mechanism for pattern weaving.

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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…

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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…
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