This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom left to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
One of the engines used in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This picture is believed to have been taken in 1903 at the halt below Heptonstall Slack.
Pallis House or Pallisser House c.1900. Originally the house of the palliser who had been responsible for the fencing, palisade/palings, around Erringden deer park.
Gertrude Attwood's Auntie Edith hand Uncle Jack after their wedding at Cragg Vale Methodist Chapel in 1904. Used as an illustration in Gertrude's book "A Village Childhood"
Crossley and Porter School History
The Crossley Heath school building owes its existence to the philanthropy of the Crossley brothers, Francis, John and Joseph. In 1857 they formulated a scheme for the establishment of a ‘superior College for the…
This part of Waterside Mill was handed over to the town to provide technical education in local trades and industries This building was superseded by Calder College in 1955.
A famous photo of the station area about 1900. Bottom right the Municipal Gas Works at Crow Nest, above it Mayroyd Mill and then the five storey Victoria Mill with the small station dwarfed by it and the large station warehouse on the other side.…
The mill behind Hangingroyd Lane is now known as the Artsmill founded in 2003. Originally it was a purpose built clothing factory, c.1905, producing ready made fustian garments, that is heavy cotton workware such as corduroys and moleskins for which…