HLS05085. Looking up Colden Clough. In the left foreground is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks and next to it Trinity Street on Stubbing Holme between the canal and the river. Above St James Parish Church and Bankfoot Mill with the Eaves Mills beyond. Date…
HLS05081. Right of centre is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks between the Rochdale Canal and the River Calder. Above it Adelaide Street and above that Bankfoot Mill. In the centre Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and Eaves Mills. The Hall and all the…
An unusual view looking up the Calder Valley towards Calderside Mill with its tall chimney and the railway crossing Whiteley Arches. The road to the right is Burnley Road into King Street. To the left between the Calder and the Rochdale Canal are the…
General view down the valley with left centre the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
Centre right Mayroyd Mill, Victoria Mill and extreme right the single bay station…
General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.
This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
Princes Bridge on Station Road over the Rochdale Canal with Machpelah Works above it. Date unknown but the bridge was widened following years of requests to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.
Pallis House or Pallisser House c.1900. Originally the house of the palliser who had been responsible for the fencing, palisade/palings, around Erringden deer park.
Tinted lithograph of Whitely Arches by A. F. Tait from his book 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway' published in 1845. The valley is so narrow at this point with the river, canal and turnpike all squeezed into the valley bottom that with the…
The old canal arm had been filled with a garage on the site. In 1984 the garage was demolished and the old arm excavated out to form a marina and dry dock off the canal. .