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Mons Mill, Todmorden was a cotton spinning mill in Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire for the Hare Spinning Company Limited. It was built in 1907, but ran into financial difficulties. It passed over to the Mons Mill (1919) Co Ltd and then was…

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Mons Mill, Todmorden was a cotton spinning mill in Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire for the Hare Spinning Company Limited. It was built in 1907, but ran into financial difficulties. It passed over to the Mons Mill (1919) Co Ltd and then was…

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Looking from Todmorden Edge above Centre Vale Park

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The scene on the morning after the 1878 fire which devastated Moss Bros dyeworks at Eastwood.

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Photo taken from Langfield Common, Sttodley Pike is in the distance.

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Site opposite the former Stansfield View Hospital prior to the building of a housing estate.

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This eye-catching monument on the Pennine Way stands nearly 1,400 feet above sea level and some 120 feet high on the crest of a windswept hill. It was erected to commemorate the surrender of Paris to the Allied Armies in March 1814: during the…

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This eye-catching monument on the Pennine Way stands 1,310 feet above sea level and some 120 feet high on the crest of a windswept hill. It was erected to commemorate the surrender of Paris to the Allied Armies in March 1814: during the Napoleonic…

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From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900.

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The balcony of the Pike can be reached from the west facing side via a dark spiral staircase.

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The original Pike was constructed to commemorate the end of the Napoleonic Wars with the 1814 Treaty of Paris but then Bonaparte escaped from Elba and the war started again. That pike collapsed and the current one replaced it opening to commemorate…

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The original Pike was constructed to commemorate the end of the Napoleonic Wars with the 1814 Treaty of Paris but then Bonaparte escaped from Elba and the war started again. That pike collapsed and the current one replaced it opening to commemorate…

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Seen here from the road between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. Ref: 67-3723

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View across to Stoodley Pike from above Lumbutts

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The Pike was originally built to commemorate the peace treaty after the Napoleonic Wars. The monument collapsed in 1854 having been weakened by a lightning strike, but was re-built a decade later, slightly further from the edge of the hill. During…

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Stoodley Pike from Great Rock, Higher Eastwood. (July 2000)
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