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Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge - PNH01948
This is a drying machine. After cloth was dyed or washed, it passed through this machine which consisted of cylinders, which were about 1.5 meters long and made of copper or brass. The cylinders were heated by steam and rotated thus drying the…
Restoration of Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge - PNH01900
The fifth man back, with the pipe, is Tom Horsfall, next is David Fletcher.
Todmorden - PNH01852
Halifax Road, Todmorden, taken from above Lob Mill
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden, c. 1869 - PNH01806
Joshua Fielden’s brother John, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle…
Hebden Bridge - PNH01774
Nutclough Mill and roof of weaving shed
Foxenhall, Soyland, Halifax - PNH01760
Showing the early technique of glazing direct to the stone frame
Birchcliffe Hillside - PNH01575
Nutclough Mill in the foreground, Yorkshire Water Board excavations behind Dodnaze estate, and the Birchcliffe Centre to the right of the centre of the picture.
River Calder at Mytholmroyd - PNH01571
Thomas Ratcliffe & Co Ltd, Blanket Manufacturers factory can clearly be seen.
Mytholmroyd from Scout Road - PNH01563
The sorting sidings c.1950. Constructed in 1919 they were used to divide coal trains from the Yorkshire coalfields between those for the Manchester direction and those for the Burnley and north west. They operated 24 hours a day until closure in…
Withens Reservoir, Cragg Vale - PNH01562
Water treatment works.
Withens Reservoir, Cragg Vale - PNH01561
Water treatment works.
Lumbutts, Todmorden - PNH01436
With water wheel tower which contained three 30 foot diameter, 6 foot wide overshot water wheels one on top of the other.
Wilson's Bobbin & Shuttle Manufacturers - PNH01433
For more information see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/cornholmebobbinworks.htm - see also 099RD and RDA00150
Pecket Shed - PNH01432
Before conversion to residential use
Pecket Shed, Hebden Bridge - PNH01424
Now converted to residential use.