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Bottom centre the Stubbing Wharf Hotel looking up the canal towards the town. In the centre Calder Mill with its large chimney and to the right of that the western portal of Weasel Hall Tunnel. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Possibly the chimney and buildings of Calder Mill, now occupied by Wireform, on the right.

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The back of Crossley Mill is on the left foreground, next to it are the 3 storey houses of New Road. Opposite them you can just make out the weaver's windows of Machpelah.

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Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge, showing the back of the garage, Watson's Yard, Crossley Mill and the Machpelah houses.

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Machpelah is on the right, Croft House in centre of the picture, Crossley Mill on the left, behind the chimney of which can be seen Queen's Terrace on Heptonstall Road.

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Crossley Mill on the Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge, March 1972.

Having undergone considerable restoration the mill now houses a children's nursery. (2013).

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In the centre the Old Bridge and Bridge Mill Chimney with Old Gate on the left. The buildings on the right fronted onto Bridge Gate but all have been demolished.

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This is carding, the first process in the Cardroom, where the raw wool or cotton is prepared for subsequent spinning by separating the fibres to form a sliver, this is performed on a revolving flat card made by Platt Bros & Co Ltd of Oldham, theā€¦

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The fifth man back, with the pipe, is Tom Horsfall, next is David Fletcher.

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This was just one of several refreshment facilities at the Crags catering for the vast numbers of visitors who came from the mill towns on both sides of the Pennines. A little below it is Gibson Mill 'entertainment emporium'.
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