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A general view from Holebottom showing the railway cutting across the centre of the town. Clearly visible on the right are Christ Church and its Vicarage. The former Ridgefoot Mill complex can be seen abutting the viaduct.

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This site was occupied for much of C20 by Lindley's Beauvoir Engineering Works which made nuts and bolts. Demolished in the early 1980s it is now the site of the Bluebell Walk Estate. The new estate on the right is on the site of Carr Field House.…

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Crossley Mill is on the left and to the right of it are the houses of Machpelah.

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The mill is Calder Mill, owned at one Abraham Robertshaw. Queens Terrace on Heptonstall Road can be seen top right.

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

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The Murgatroyd’s Oats Royd Mill before the fire in February 1989 which totally gutted the centre six storey building. This has been sympathetically replaced by an apartment block and the whole mill complex is now residential. At its peak the mill…

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The former mill on Burnley Road, opposite Station Road, has now been demolished and replaced with a private housing estate.

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The former worsted mill was severely damaged by fire in February 1989 with the six storey mill on the right beyond the first bridge totally gutted. This has been sympathetically replaced by an apartment block and the whole mill complex is now…

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The Council Offices are on the left and the chimney of Bridge Mill is in the centre
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