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  • Collection: Pennine Heritage Collection

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Galloways were regularly used as packhorses, often known in the North of England as 'gals'. thebrred is now extinct.

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

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Before conversion to residential use

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

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Now Innovation gift shop and cafe.

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

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Kenneth Bleasby Tennent at work on foster Mill chimney.

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David Stinton of Pennine Book Binders, Oct 1986.

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Taken before 1971 (Decimalisation Day).
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