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Hebden Bridge from Horsehold hillside. - ALC00255
The houses bottom right at Calder Bank now demolished and the field above them now the site of Riverside School which opened 1909. To its left across the river is Central Street School.
Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel, Hebden Bridge - ALC00218
Circa 1900. Foster Mill, owned by Redman Bros, was part of the Hebden Estate Company. William Henry Cockroft designed the Methodist Chapel. Moss Lane on the hillside leads to Heptonstall Road. Top left is Cross Lanes Chapel with the Manse on the…
Train leaving Mytholmroyd Station, c1908 - ALC00214
An Aspinall 4-4-2 'High-Flyer' heading a passenger train towards Hebden Bridge. This section of track had been quadrupled in 1906.
Mytholmroyd Gala - ALC00196
Mytholmroyd Gala, c 1900. Donated by Eileen Pogson.
Parade at Mytholmroyd c1905 - ALC00163
Charity Demonstration Half the money raised went to the Mytholmroyd Nursing Association and the other half to the Royal Halifax Infirmary.
Hebden Bridge, general view - ALC00110
Hebden Bridge from above Fairfield. The building bottom right was for many years an aberttoir. Behind it can be seen goods wagons in the station sidings. The Grammar School on Home Street can be seen so the photo is after 1908.
Old Birchcliffe Chapel c1900 - ALC00103
The chapel had opened in 1825 but was replaced by the larger chapel lower down Birchcliffe Road in 1898, now the Birchcliffe Centre.
Todmorden Herald. - MOT00350
November 22 1905.
Advertisement for Barker's cycle works - MOT00329
This advertisement accompanies photographs for Barker's cycle works at Millwood, 1902. In 1909 the Barker family moved to Bolton and set up a business selling and repairing motor cars.
Wilson Bros' Decorated Float - MOT00229
Wilson Bros' decorated float, taken on Coronation Day, 9th August 1902.
Burnley Road, Cornholme - MOT00226
General view of Burnley Road, Cornholme, dominated by Wilson Bros' mill and their factory clock, 1905
Wilson's Bobbin Mill, Cornholme - MOT00224
The bobbin works at the height of its power in the early 1900s.
Lobb Mill, Todmorden around 1902-6. - MOT00431
The five arch viaduct on the Manchester & Leeds Railway is right of centre and the Rochdale Canal to the left.
Hollins Mill, Walsden - MOT00429
This former spinning mill and weaving sheds were built in 1856-8 by Abraham Ormerod & Bros. The mill was purchased by Caleb Hoyle in 1904. At the time of this photograph, about 1962, the four-storey building was occupied by Sunway Blinds. The shed on…
Sunnyside, Todmorden - MOT00423
Todmorden's earliest industrial 'estate', viewed from Sunnyside about 1905.
Mons Mill under Construction, 1908 - 9 - MOT00198
Its founder, Jonathan Gledhill, supervised the cutting of the first sod in June 1907.
Mons Mill under Construction, 1908 - 9 - MOT00197
The mill's founder, Jonathan Gledhill, supervised the cutting of the first sod in June 1907.
Woodhouse Mill, Todmorden - MOT00173
Woodhouse Mill, seen from the towing path of the Rochdale Canal, c. 1906. The three-storey terrace of houses was called Bank View. The improvements and inventions of Hargreaves' spinning jenny, Crompton's mule, and later, Cartwright's power loom…
Ramsden Wood Mill - MOT00169
Clearing the water course at Ramsden Wood Clough, about 1900.
Water Power - MOT00162
Lumbutts in the 1900s.
Gorpley Mill, Bacup Road - MOT00158
When this photograph was taken, c. 1900-1910, all that remained of the former weaving and spinning mill was the upper wheel race. Built in 1805 the mill was operated by the Ormerod Bros. from 1824 until about 1870. The place stood empty for many…
The stonecrusher at Sourhall, around 1900. - MOT00121
The rotating arm and its stone wheel were moved - by animal or man - around a circular base to produce sand for floors, roads and building work. The stone crusher was removed to Bacup town centre in the 1970s.