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Cornholme and Station, Todmorden - RDA00222
Looking up the valley over the small mill town towards Burnley with the station more or less in the centre. The station had opened in 1878 and closed in 1938. The chimney to the left of the big chimney was for Law Mill.
Vale, Cornholme, Todmorden. - RDA00223
Vale to the east of Cornholme.
Portsmouth, Todmorden. - RDA00224
Portsmouth looking up towards Burnley. Just discernible right of centre the small station on the Todmorden- Burnley 'Copy Pit' line, closed 1958.
Portsmouth, Todmorden. - RDA00225
Portsmouth looking down the valley.
Cornholme, Todmorden. - RDA00226
In the foreground Mount Zion Methodist Chapel; closed 1968 and then demolished although the graveyard remains. Down the valley the tower and spire of St Michael and ALL Angels C of E Church. The large mill behind is Frostholme Mill.
Portsmouth, Todmorden. - RDA00227
Looking up the valley. Burnley Road from Todmorden passing under the railway bridge on the right. To the left a railway siding.
Lydgate, Todmorden. - RDA00228
Looking up the valley with Robinwood Mill prominent centre left. Harley Wood church to the right.
Stanley Farm. - RDA00229
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Scaitcliffe Cottage & Mill, Todmorden. - RDA00230
Scaitcliffe east of Lydgate. The old corn mill was destroyed by fire in the 1940s but the house survived.
Newton, Todmorden. - RDA00231
Burnley Road at Newton between Todmorden and Lydgate.
Shore Baptist Chapel, Near Cornholme, Todmorden - RDA00232
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…
Burnley Road, Todmorden. - RDA00233
Looking down Burnley Road towards Mons Mill and chimney.
Vale, Cornholme, Todmorden. - RDA00234
Looking across towards Cornholme Station which closed in 1938 with Burnley Road in the foreground.
Cornholme Church, Todmorden. - RDA00236
The C of E Church dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. The Grade ll listed church was built about 1902. In October 2013 it received a £85,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to carry out restoration work.
Stoneyroyd, Harley Wood, Todmorden - RDA00237
On the hillside above Burnley Road, To the rifgt of the building the arch of a bridge on the Todmorden-Burnley railway line.
Frostholme Mill, Cornholme, Todmorden. - RDA00238
The mill on Burnley Road was originally a cotton mill built in 1861 with subsequent extensions. Now occupied by furniture manufacturers.
Interior Harley Wood Church, Todmorden - RDA00239
All Saints Church, Harley Wood, Lydgate opened 1858 and was demolished in 1975 following closure.
Harley Wood Church, Todmorden. - RDA00240
All Saints Church, Harley Wood, Lydgate opened 1858 and was demolished in 1975 following closure.
Eagles Crag, Todmorden. - RDA00241
Towering above the 'Staff of Life Inn' on Burnley Road between Cornholme and Todmorden it was the subject of supernatural legend.
Scaitcliffe Hall, Todmorden. - RDA00243
Looking across to Scaitcliffe Hall from Ewood below Buckley Wood. The hall is now a hotel and the area in front the site of Todmorden High School.
Springside, Todmorden. - RDA00244
Springside between Eastwood and Todmorden. Most of the buildings now demolished.
Stansfield Mill, Todmorden, 1905/6. - RDA00245
Laying cables at Lower Laithe, Todmorden.
Lower Laithe, Todmorden. - RDA00246
East of the town centre on the Halifax-Todmorden Road (now the A646) near Hall Royd. Cross Stone Church on the hilltop.