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Title: Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge - WSC00147
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Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge - WSC00147
Description
Rear of Oldfield Watson's yard on the left, Crossley Mill Terrace and Machpelah beyond. The buildings on the canal bank up to the old chimney were all demolished in 1984 to make way for the new Marina. The chimney remains by the boiler house itself was re-built housing Crossley Mill Day Nursery.
You can just make out an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and through St George’s Square and over St George’s Bridge to get it to the Buttress for work at 7am one morning to avoid traffic, and returned in the opposite direction some 12 months after. It never worked again and was scrapped in the late 70s or 80s.
Information from Paul Watson.
The yard on New Road backed onto the Rochdale Canal. Above are terraced houses on the Birchcliffe Hillside as well as Zion Particular Baptist Chapel.
You can just make out an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.
After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and through St George’s Square and over St George’s Bridge to get it to the Buttress for work at 7am one morning to avoid traffic, and returned in the opposite direction some 12 months after. It never worked again and was scrapped in the late 70s or 80s.
Information from Paul Watson.
The yard on New Road backed onto the Rochdale Canal. Above are terraced houses on the Birchcliffe Hillside as well as Zion Particular Baptist Chapel.
Creator
W. Shepherd
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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PHDA - W. Shepherd Collection
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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WSC00147.tif
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Citation
W. Shepherd, “Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge - WSC00147,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/20731.
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