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Men on the Town - DEP00373
Percy Pollard, second from left, with friends in West Street, Todmmorden.
Midgley Road Canal Bridge & Mount Zion Chapel - DEP00455
The Chapel was built in 1887. Dry rot caused the chapel to be closed in 1960 and it was demolished in 1970. This picture may have been taken between those two dates.
Midgley Road, Mytholmroyd - DEP00456
Taken from the bridge over the canal. Note the Co-op on right and Watsons Mill on the left. The mill was demolished to allow the entrance to Midgley Road to be widened.
Mitchell Bros Mill Dam, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00104
The wooden hut contained the large valve which controlled the flow of water in the 9” (225 mm) pipe flowing to the turbine, near Sandy Gate.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00103
The Mitchell Mill reservoir on Wadsworth Moor. The water was used to power the turbine near Sandy Gate. The turbine was stopped or started by a large valve situated in a wooden hut over the mill dam.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00114
Percy Pollard at this time was the steam engineer at Charlie Crabtree Mill in Blind Lane, Todmorden, in reserved war-time occupation. Boston Hill Cottages had been servants' quarters when the big house was still there. at this time it was all owned…
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00115
The parallel motion piston connecting rod to beam.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00116
Plan showing tunnel from reservoir to mill.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00117
Plan showing mill and Old Town Hall.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00118
Plan showing mill and Old Town Hall.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00119
Plan showing mill line of pipe to Sandy Gate.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00120
View of high pressure cylinder, note the flywheel and connecting rod.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00121
Percy Pollard inspecting missing tooth on gear wheel on No 1 motion shaft. This other gear wheel is connected to the main drive electric motor.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00122
c1960. Machine for making wool "Tops".
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00123
Edward Teasdale (rear) and 2 engineers from Cole, Marchant & Morley Ltd., Bradford, on canteen steps at Mitchell Bros.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00124
Boston Hill Estate, the house of the Mitchell family was next to Mitchell Bros Mill and is now Old town Cricket Club.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00125
Composite picture of the gates of Mitchell's Mill.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00100
Percy Pollard, Mill Engineer, born 12/5/1908, the engine was made by Woodhouse & Mitchell in Brighouse
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00101
Percy Pollard, mill Engineer, born 12/5/1908, and the fixed water level indicator between the two glass water gauges, the pipes and valves on the left werefor the water injector that put water into the boiler under pressure.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00102
Percy Pollard and his son Derek inside the Lancashire Boiler; they are sitting on the two tubes. The bioler had to be descaled and inspected every year.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00105
This turbine, situated near Sandy Gate, generated electricty using the water from the reservoir on Wadsworth Moor. The cables near the generator would have gone up to the mill.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00106
This mains electric motor would drive the mill. When the reservoir was full and over-flowed the water would drive the turbine near Sandy Gate. The steam engine would be disconnected but the steam boiler would still be used for washing wool.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00107
The belt drive from the first motion shaft tothe second motion shaft. The wooden sliding door was the entrance to the battery room which was full of lead acid batteries to power the 110 volt lighting in the mill as there was no mains electricty.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00108
The engineer's workshop situated over the Boiler House all the machines were made by Dixons of Keighley