Pictured at Library Lock. Area to rear of men is Veevers Wharf. Shop to left Melias shop, shop on right was firstly butchers shop run by ? Uttley and secondly pork butchers shop run by Mark Priestley. Then it became Bon Marche, and latterly Indian…
Clearly a mill town. In the foreground is Pallis House and to its left smoke from a train in the cutting and above the smoke Holme House. On the left hillside Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel and dominant in the top centre Foster Mill.
In the centre the aqueduct carrying the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder. To its left Riverside School and to the right Central Dyeworks, now enlarged and converted into appartments. The industrial building top right have now gone and replced…