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  • Collection: Pennine Heritage Collection

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David Stinton of Pennine Book Binders, Oct 1986.

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Kenneth Bleasby Tennent at work on foster Mill chimney.

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This is a high breast-shot wheel, which would have turned clock wise.

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Now Innovation gift shop and cafe.

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Built in the late 1800s. Closed in 1999 and was destroyed by fire and subsequently demolished in 2019.

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Part of the Calderdale pre industrial museum. Postcard published by The Piece Hall, Halifax

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Built in 1894 for the Queen Street Manufacturing Company the mill closed on the 12th March 1982 and was mothballed. The worlds only surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill. Bringing steam powered weaving to life.

On the outskirts of…

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A deep ravine with many early industrial remains. The chimney is virtually all that remains of Lumb Mills. The house on the hillside is Lumb Bank, formerly the home of the poet Ted Hughes, now the home of the Arvon Foundation, a residential centre…

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Before conversion to residential use

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For more information see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/cornholmebobbinworks.htm - see also 099RD and RDA00150

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With water wheel tower which contained three 30 foot diameter, 6 foot wide overshot water wheels one on top of the other.
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