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Woodhouse Mill, Todmorden. - RDA00247
The Grade ll listed building situated on the Rochdale Canal between Todmorden and Eastwood. It was built in 1832 as a steam powered cotton mill but by the mid-20th century lay derelict and then in 1994 it was gutted by a fire. It was subsequently…
Hallroyd, Todmorden. - RDA00248
Hallroyd east of Todmorden town centre is where the Burnley line divides from the Manchester and Leeds line. The signal box and signals, but not the junction, seen here.
Stoodley Pike from Eastwood. - RDA00249
The Pike was originally built to commemorate the peace treaty after the Napoleonic Wars. The monument collapsed in 1854 having been weakened by a lightning strike, but was re-built a decade later, slightly further from the edge of the hill. During…
Beeton, Todmorden. - RDA00250
The long low building along the canal bank is Beeton Rope Works. Above left the western portal of Horsfall Tunnel.
Sandholme, Todmorden. - RDA00251
Looking down the Upper Calder Valley. Cross Stone Church on the hillside with canal wharf in the centre.
Castle Street, Todmorden. - RDA00252
Millsteads Mill on the right.
Lord Bros., Todmorden. - RDA00253
"BOILER EXPLOSION at Lord Bros. 7 killed and 40 or 50 injured. Three boilers placed in Canal Street Works new in 1866. Whole of boiler house, beaming room and small engine room adjoining all reduced to ruins.
Millwood and Kilnhurst, Todmorden. - RDA00254
The area down the Calder Valley to the east of the town with Cross Stone Church on the hillside.
Cross Stone, Todmorden. - RDA00255
St Paul's Church, Cross Stone on the hillside above the Calder Valley to the east of Todmorden. The church seen here dates from 1833 but there had been a church on the site since the 15th century when it was a chapelry in Halifax Parish. The church…
Cross Stone Church, Todmorden. - RDA00256
St Paul's Church, Cross Stone on the hillside above the Calder Valley to the east of Todmorden. The church seen here dates from 1833 but there had been a church on the site since the 15th century when it was a chapelry in Halifax Parish. The church…
Cross Stone Vicarage, Todmorden. - RDA00257
On the hillside overlooking the Upper Calder Valley. The church closed in 1978 and it and the vicarage are now in private ownership.
Lob Mill, Todmorden. - RDA00258
Lob Mill east of the town with the chimney being felled on 29 September 1906 by which time the mill was disused Note the crowds standing on the railway viaduct to watch.
Stansfield Hall Lodge, Todmorden. - RDA00260
The hall is Grade ll Listed but there is no mention of the Lodge in the listing.
Meadow Bottom, Todmorden. - RDA00261
Meadow Bottom on the north hillside above Burnley Road. Originally known as Hole-Bottom-Meadow-Bottom. In the distance Stoodley Pike and bottom right the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' Line.
Hole Bottom, Todmorden. - RDA00262
Hole Bottom on the north hillside up above Burnley Road. Originally known as Hole-Bottom-Meadow-Bottom.
Hole Bottom Mill, Todmorden. - RDA00264
A cotton spinning mill at Meadow Bottom; it was destroyed by fire in February 1918.
Hole Bottom, Todmorden. - RDA00265
Originally known as Hole-Bottom-Meadow-Bottom. Situate on the north hillside above Burnley Road.
Sourhall Hospital, Todmorden. - RDA00266
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.
Bacup Road, Todmorden - RDA00267
Looking down to Cloughfoot.
Dulesgate. - RDA00268
On the Bacup Road out of Gauxholme.
Bacup Road. - RDA00269
Looking down the clough in the direction of Gauxholme.
Stones, Todmorden. - RDA00270
On the north hillside above Bacup Road near Gauxholme.
Todmorden Water Works Overflow. - RDA00271
Believed to be Gorpley Reservoir on the moors south of Bacup Road.