Stile, on the hillside north of Burnley Road and the railway opposite Centre Vale; it is now a housing estate and school although Stile House, Grade ll listed, still stands.
Can you locate? Originally thought to be the road overbridge at Copy Pit looking North West and the second bridge seen through the arch would be commensurate with that although the two bridges were further apart than they appear to be here. Further…
Built in the late 1870s as Todmorden's Workhouse but after 1948 it became a hospital for the mentally handicapped. The building was demolished in 1996.
There seems to have been a church on the site since the 15th century, but with the opening of Christ Church in 1832 this church was largely redundant. By the 1980s it was accepted that the parish could not support two churches and in 1992 Christ…
Originally Peel Mill it was converted into an isolation, or fever, hospital in 1875 following a smallpox epidemic in Todmorden in which 32 people died. It closed after the Second World War.
On the hillside above Burnley Road the chapel was founded in 1777 and enlarged and extended over the years. The church closed in the 1960s and a part is now a private house but the rest is derelict and the chapel roofless.
On the hillside above Burnley Road the chapel was founded in 1777 and enlarged and extended over the years. The church closed in the 1960s but services continued in a room in the Sunday SChool until the final closure in October 1985. One part is now…
View over the town from the west. The remains of Fielden’s Waterside Mill, an old spinning mill built in 1800, can be seen on the right after a disastrous fire in 1901. The spire of the Unitarian Church, built by the Fieldens, is in the centre. The…
In the centre of this photograph is the Golden Lion Bridge carrying the Rochdale Road over the canal. These lock gates were later replaced in the 1920s with a guillotine, or vertically rising, gate.
Pudsey area of Cornholme on the north side of Burnley Road. In the foreground the Todmorden-Burnley railway 'Copy Pit' line. Front right is the back of Frostholme Mill. Springwood Terrace is on the right nearer the top.