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  • Collection: Pennine Heritage Collection

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Millstone Grit boulders above Widdop, May 1985

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Built in the 1870s it has a capacity of 640 million gallons.

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Boulderclough Chapel is towards the centre at the bottom of the picture, Steep Lane Chapel right of centre higher up, and Crow Hill is on the skyline.

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August 22nd, 1960, Scout road School is on the left.

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Looking over towards Midgehole Road from Lee wood, Pecket Well on the horizon.

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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.

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A good view of the weir and sluice gates to the right hand side.

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Thomas Ratcliffe & Co Ltd, Blanket Manufacturers factory can clearly be seen.

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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…

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The sign advertises a Cab and Wagonette.

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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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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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