This is Wakefield Road near Sowerby Bridge looking towards Copley. The cordoned off area is where the road collapsed, and the gooseberry bush on the right is at the top of an area of allotments.
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…
LYRS 8622 - 1967. Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box (front & door gable) and the east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The box and the Goods and Loco Depots it controlled have all gone.
LYRS 4947 - Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box (front & door gable) and east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The box controlled the Goods Yard and Loco Depot and all have now gone. Note two disc type ground signals in the foreground. The main signal in the…
LYRS 6098 - Water tank and gents toilets in 1963. Now demolished they were situated on the 'up' platform immediately to the west of, and abutting, the single storey station building which is now the Jubilee Refreshment Rooms.