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Brearley Bridge - TWA00111
Bridge over the River Calder at Brearley, circa 1960
Copley - TWA00151
Weir at Sterne Mill, Copley
BREARLEY BRIDGE - TWA00205
BREARLEY BRIDGE is a single-arch saddle-back stone bridge thought to date from the mid 18th century. An inn, the Mill Inn, later the Clarence Inn, once stood on the Brearley side of the bridge. There was a bridge there in the seventeenth century as…
Bridge over the Calder at Greetland, Nr Halifax - TWA00207
CALDER BRIDGE near the former Greetland Station spans the Calder and was built in the turnpike days.
Callis Bridge, Todmorden - TWA00208
Callis is the name of a place on the slopes of Erringden. It was named as ‘Calys’ as early as 1375. A deed dated 1604 has reference to ‘one small close adjoining the Hebble called Callishebble.’ The district is approached by the bridge over the…
Copley Bridge - TWA00213
COPLEY BRIDGE is a stone bridge of two spans crossing the River Calder. There was a toll bar here until 1856, the bridge and road up into the wood being privately owned. Until a few years ago a board showing the various amounts of toll payable was…
Bridge at Hawksclough, Mytholmroyd - TWA00222
HAWKSCLOUGH BRIDGE, Mytholmroyd, is a single-arch stone bridge over the Calder thought to be at least 200 years old. It was built to serve Hawksclough Manor, now known as Hawksclough Farm. The house was extended in 1735 and the bridge may have been…
Hebble End Bridge, Hebden Bridge - TWA00223
HEBBLE END BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge on the west side of Hebden Bridge. In the sixteenth century it was known as Litthouse Bridge from the dye¬house near at hand, referred to in the Heptonstall Parish Register as Litte-house. On April…
Luddendenfoot Bridge - TWA00237
LUDDENDEN FOOT BRIDGE was erected in 1882 by the Luddenden Foot board of Health to replace an earlier bridge washed away in the flood of December 23rd, 1880. This bridge, known as the “currie” bridge, was built between 1790 and 1795, Sowerby paying…
Mereclough Bridge, near Sowerby Bridge - TWA00241
MEARCLOUGH BRIDGE is a double-arch stone bridge over the river Calder at the foot of Fall Lane. As far back as 1300 there was a corn mill here run by water, and for nearly 500 years this mill was owned by the Waterhouse family of Skircoat. Mearclough…
County Bridge, Mytholmroyd - TWA00244
MYTHOLMROYD COUNTY BRIDGE. The first reference to this bridge is in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) where the river Calder is described as receiving "one rill neere Elphabrught Bridge." Elphabrough Hall was an important hall on the Cragg Vale bank of…
Charlestown - Whiteley Arches c.1890. - RDA00140
Behind the viaduct is Calderside Mill built in the 1820s by John Whiteley, after whom the viaduct came to be named. Reputedly it had the tallest chimney in the valley.
The bridge over the canal was a very early skew bridge and also one of the very…
The bridge over the canal was a very early skew bridge and also one of the very…
Eastwood, near Todmorden - RDA00143
Looking towards Hebden Bridge with far left the cobbled double side sloping track up to the station. The track is still there but the station closed to passengers in 1951.
The street facing you is Valley Street. In front is James (Jimmy) Mitchell's…
The street facing you is Valley Street. In front is James (Jimmy) Mitchell's…
Clough Mill, Mytholmroyd - AGW00255
James Watson Ltd. Weavers of cotton sateens, twills and similar fabrics, 1960.
Sowerby Bridge. - CBC06242
On the left is the brick built extension to Sowerby Bridge Mills on piers over the River Calder. The tall centre one is Carlton Mills, this is the only surviver in this image and is now appartments. The far one is LockHill Mills and was occupied by…
Sterne Mills, Sowerby Bridge - KST00157
River, Sterne Mills
Eastwood, Todmorden - BBS00113
Postcard published G.H. Greenwood, The Post Office, Todmorden. The Rochdale Canal is in the foreground.
Hebden Bridge c1885 - BIM00497
Clearly a mill town. In the foreground is Pallis House and to its left smoke from a train in the cutting and above the smoke Holme House. On the left hillside Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel and dominant in the top centre Foster Mill.
Hebden Bridge c1885 - BIM00497
Clearly a mill town. In the foreground is Pallis House and to its left smoke from a train in the cutting and above the smoke Holme House. On the left hillside Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel and dominant in the top centre Foster Mill.
Long Wall, Elland - MCH00233
Long Wall is the name of the road with an embankment on the left and a cutting on the right. Elland Bridge can be seen on the left hand edge of the photo spanning the River Calder
Sowerby Bridge, Riverside Developement, - JNB00540
Postcard dated 1992
Sowerby Bridge, Riverside Developement, - JNB00542
Canoe slalom course. Postcard dated 1992,
Sowerby Bridge Mill, built 1792. - JNB00549
The joining of the River Ryburn and the Calder, there is evidence of a mill on this site in 1274. Postcard dated 1992.