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  • Collection: Rene Dawson Collection

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The Cricket Field and Pavilion Centre Vale. cricket club has been on this site since 1839 and its tenure was assured when the John Fielden bought Centre Vale in 1843.

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Formed by a break away group from the chapel at Shore the church opened in a central valley position in 1819. The church closed in 1962 and the congregation joined the Roomfield congregation. The graves were moved to Shore Chapel and but a block of…

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Glen View, off the north side of Burnley Road between Scaitclffe and Harley Wood.

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Carr Laithe house on Lovers Walk through Buckley Wood on the hillside above Centre Vale Park. The house has been demolished.

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Lovers Walk in Buckley Wood on the hillside above Centre Vale Park.

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Lovers Walk through Buckley Wood on the hillside above Centre Vale Park.

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St Michael & all Angels C of E Church, Burnley Road, Cornholme.

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Flood water pouring down Victoria Road towards Burnley Road, Date unknown.

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Flood water at the junction of Garden Street and Victoria Road. Date unknown.

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Flooded Wellington Road. Date unknown.

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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.

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North of Burnley Road opposite Centre Vale, seen here looking over to Buckley Wood. The large building left of centre was Todmorden Grammar School and is now Ferny Lee Primary School.

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Hare Mill on Burnley Road was built for the Hare Spinning Company and was completed in 1910. It passed to the Mons Mill Company and was renamed Mons Mill after the First World War battle. Textile production ceased in 1968 and the mill was demolished…

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When built it was called Hare Mill but was renamed after the battle of Mons in the First World War. Demolished 2000.

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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…

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The station on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line opened in 1849 and closed in 1958. Seem here looking up the line towards Burnley.

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The 13 arch Nott Wood Viaduct, Lydgate, on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line, completed 1849. Robinwood Mill on the left.

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Nott Wood Viaduct in the centre with Robinwood Mill to its right. To the right of the viaduct the former primary school now the Robinwood Activity Centre.

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Bottom right Robinwood Mill. Down the valley towards Todmorden Mons Mill just discernible.

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The large building on the left the former primary school now the Robinwood Activity Centre.

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Top right Harley Wood Church opened 1858 and demolished in 1975. The building in the foreground believed to be Lineholme Baptist Chapel which closed in 1962 and was subsequently demolished.

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Looking up Burnley Road to Knott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. To the left the top storeys of Robinwood Mill.
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