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Cross Stone Church Interior - RDA00172
The first church at Cross Stone, in the Parochial Chapelry of Heptonstall, was built in 1527 and pulled down in 1717 and then replaced. Dedicated to St Paul, the present church dates from the mid-1830s being one of the so called 'Million Pound'…
Odd-Fellows Hall, Todmorden, c1902 - RDA00173
The Hall stands near the Town Hall with the market behind it, and appears to have been decked for some celebration.
Hebden Bridge - Foster Lane Wesleyan Chapel - RDA00174
The Foster Lane chapel opened in 1904 and was closed and demolished in the mid-1960s. On the hillside top left is Cross Lanes United Methodist Chapel which had opened in 1840 but that too closed and was demolished in the 1960s. To the right is Foster…
The 'Copy Pit', Cliviger - RDA00175
The small colliery at the summit of the Todmorden-Burnley line after which it is named. The steeply graded line was opened by the Lancashire Railway in 1849. Seen here looking NW towards Burnley. On the right people are walking on the…
The 'Copy Pit' Cliviger. - RDA00176
The small colliery at the summit of the steeply graded Todmorden-Burnley line after which it is named. Seen here looking SE towards Todmorden the main road, now the A646, is the other side of the wall centre left. The bridge on the right carried a…
The 'Copy Pit' Line - Chatham Bridge. - RDA00177
The bridge, seen here looking SE in the Todmorden direction, is about quarter of a mile up from the former Portsmouth station and carries a lane from the A646 up to a farm. The loop line on the left has now been lifted.
The 'Copy Pit' Line - Holme Station. - RDA00178
The station was opened at the same time as the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway's line between Todmorden and Burnley in 1849. It was closed in 1930.
Cornholme Station - RDA00179
The station on the 'Copy Pit Line' from Todmorden to Burnley opened in 1878 some 30 years after the line and the station closed in 1938.
Todmorden - Roomfield Baptist Chapel. - RDA00180
Previously based at Millwood, the congregation moved to Roomfield in 1877, nearer to Todmorden Centre. The Chapel was demolished in 1953 due to dry rot and similarly the schoolroom in 1959. A new small Chapel opened at Roomfield in 1962.
Wesleyan Chapel - RDA00181
Location unknown.
Clough Foot Independent Chapel, Todmorden - RDA00182
The chapel was completed in 1854 as seen on the commemorative stone above the door. The chapel closed in 1991 and is now a private house.
Mankinholes Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. - RDA00183
The Chapel was erected in 1814 and the Sunday School at the rear in 1833. The Chapel, but not the Sunday School, was completely re-built in 1912 but due to structural problems and dry rot it closed in 1979 and was demolished. The Sunday School is now…
United Methodist Chapel, Lumbutts. - RDA00184
A Chapel was built in 1837 by a breakaway group from Mankinholes Chapel but as the congregation grew it was demolished and replaced by this larger building in 1877. The Chapel remains open as at 2013.
Bridge Street United Free Methodist Chapel, Todmorden. - RDA00185
A chapel was opened by a break away group from the Wesleyan York Street Chapel in 1838. That chapel was demolished and replaced by this much larger chapel in 1873, dubbed the 'Cathedral of Methodism'. It closed in 1962 and the building was demolished…
Interior Bridge Street Methodist Chapel Todmorden - RDA00186
For more information see RDA00185.
Wellington Road Baptist Chapel Todmorden. - RDA00187
The Chapel opened in 1859 and was altered in 1871 and then closed in 1953.
York Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Todmorden - RDA00188
The Chapel and Sunday School opened in 1827 but a decade later the congregation separated and a break away group established the Bridge Street Chapel. In 1906 the York Street Sunday School was replaced with what is now the Central Methodist Church.…
Todmorden -John Fielden Monument. - RDA00189
Honest John' Fielden a Radical MP for Oldham for many years. Although from humble beginnings he became a wealthy industrialist and founded the Fielden dynasty in Todmorden with their Riverside Mill complex, Dobroyd Castle and the Unitarian Church and…
Todmorden - Lifeboat Saturday. - RDA00190
An annual event with the Lifeboat from Fleetwood, at that time of course a Rowing Lifeboat.
Todmorden Town Hall. - RDA00191
"The town hall in Todmorden straddles the River Calder and was situated in both Lancashire and Yorkshire until the county boundary was moved on January 1 1888. Designed by John Gibson of Westminster, this imposing building has a northern end which is…
Todmorden Town Hall Pediment - RDA00192
" One interesting external feature of the town hall is the pediment. The fine carved stonework has two central female figures on a pedestal. The left hand one represents Lancashire (cotton spinning industry) and the right hand one Yorkshire…
Todmorden - Lifeboat Saturday. - RDA00193
"Lifeboat Saturdays" were a regular event in Todmorden until July 7 1906 when the last - pictured here - took place. Officials of the charity, started nearly 10 years earlier to support the R.N.L.I., line up in front of the lifeboat "Busbie," manned…
Todmorden Free Library Interior. - RDA00194
Todmorden Library was built by Todmorden Industrial and Co-operative Society and opened in 1897 and was handed over to Todmorden Borough Council. The library remains in the original building but now part of the Calderdale Council's branch library…
Pudsey, Cornholme. - RDA00195
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.
