The large mill complex in the centre is Thomas Ratcliffe's Albert Mills, later Moderna Mill. Note the railway sidings, left, and the gas holder to the right of the river near the top of the picture. The light coloured building to the right was the…
From left to right- Mary Sayer, Doris Leach, Margaret Sutcliffe, Peggy Longbottom, Joan Lomas, Gail Smith, Mary Stenhouse, Carol Wolstenholme, Mrs Smith, Mrs Ackenley, Mrs Crossley, Dora Brennan
Back row, Joe Sagar, Dennis?, Billy Noy,not known, Fosset Milner, Stansfield Boulten
Front row, Fred Wild, David Dalgleish, Alan Thomas, Fred Sayer, Tim Horsfield.
Billy Noy, Fred Wild, David Dalgleish and Fred Sayer were keepers for Lord Savile,…
Near the top end of the Colden Valley on a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway,…