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Taken in June 1978 and shows Fred Brown Engineers. The very right hand side of the picture is the Hole in the Wall pub.

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The bridge over the Rochdale Canal links the Memorial Gardens to Calder Holmes Park. Situated behind the Picture House, it was constructed preparatory to the opening of the gardens in 1938.

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The holly tress are still there (2014) but the inn has gone and the area is now a car park The water tower, seen here on the top on the left hand building on the corner of St Georges Square, has since been removed. Hangingroyd House can be seen part…

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Taken from Horsehold Road. The back of Salem Church is on the left and Melbourne Mill is on the right.

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Taken probably in the 1960s before the canal was culverted at Hebble End Bridge.

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Looking down Hangingroyd Road towards Bridge Lanes.

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The crane was installing a new roof (July 2000).

A fulling mill existed in the area prior to the 16th century which had been replaced and extended. In 1861, Worrals a firm of dyers and finishers from Salford bought the newly built dyeworks and…

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c. 1960 Friths Mill, Bacup Road - Known as Temperley's "Bottom Shop".

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c. 1960 Friths Mill, Bacup Road - Known as Temperley's "Bottom Shop".

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Door in corner led to kitchen. Single storey buiding on right was the laundry.

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Woodhouse Mill was built in 1832 and spun cotton for a century until the Depression halted production. It remained empty for 50 years until it was bought by an enthusiast who planned an industrial heritage centre, but restoration was halted by the…

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In about 1830 a series of four dams was constructed above the Fieldens’ Lumbutts Mill to feed a new water-wheel tower. This striking industrial monument housed three wheels, one vertically above the other, in an ingenious piece of engineering that…
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