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Mons Mill, Todmorden was a cotton spinning mill in Todmorden for the Hare Spinning Company Limited. It was built in 1907, but ran into financial difficulties. It passed over to the Mons Mill (1919) Co Ltd and then was taken over by the Lancashire…

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Lydgate or Nott Wood Railway viaduct with Mons Mill and chimney in the centre. The viaduct is on the Burnley Branch, or Copy Pit Line as it is known in railway circles, which opened in 1849.

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Bottom right Robinwood Mill. Down the valley towards Todmorden Mons Mill just discernible.

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View from Wood Top across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, is wedged between, on the right Victoria Mill, occupied for many years by F. & H. Sutcliffe who manufactured portable wooden buildings, and on its left…

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View over Hebden Bridge, with High Hurst on the horizon and showing the old Birchcliffe Chapel with its graveyard and the new one, now the Birchcliffe Centre, under construction. The houses of Eiffel Street are also under construction.

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Probably about 1900. Bottom right the 'new' station built in 1891/2 and to its left the large station goods warehouse. Across Calder Holmes from it the extensive Crossley's mill.

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Bottom left Calder Mill destroyed by fire 1964. Above the mill housing on both sides of Bridge Lanes. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Bottom centre Adelaide Street and above that housing on Stubbing Holme with Calder Mill and its tall chimney. Most of the mill but not the chimney was destroyed by fire in 1964. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The town has changed a good deal since this photo was taken. Several of the mills have gone, along with the Bridge Lane houses, running from bottom left to right. Looking at the Birchcliffe area, centre right, a good many more house have been built.…

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The low white building to the right is Palace House or 'Pallisser's House', the home of the pallisser who looked after the fence or pallisade around the deer park which used to occupy the land now called Erringden. New Road is in the background. …

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Undated postcard. Centre of photo is the Dodnaze Estate with steel fabricated houses built in 1947 fronting onto Wadsworth Lane. In the centre is Calder Mill with its landmark chimney; the mill was gutted by fire November 1964.

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Bottom left St James Parish Church and to its right Mytholm Hall, demolished 1969. Centre foreground Adelaide Street and above it the chimney and Calder Mill, the mill was destroyed by fire in 1964. To the right of the mill the western portal of…

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General view over Woodend, Nutclough and Birchcliffe. View over Hebden Bridge with Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel on the right and above them Nutclough Mill. On the far hillside is the old Birchcliffe Chapel. Heptonstall Road is on the left.

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Formerly BT169NG. View over Hebden Bridge with Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel on the right and above them Nutclough Mill. On the far hillside is the old Birchcliffe Chapel. Heptonstall Road is on the left

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Formerly BT169NG. View over Hebden Bridge with Foster Mill and Foster Lane Chapel on the right and above them Nutclough Mill. On the far hillside is the old Birchcliffe Chapel. Heptonstall Road is on the left

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The terrace far left is Nursery Nook on Keighley Road with below it Lee Mill Road and going off that to its right is Windsor Road and below that Foster Mill Dam with Foster Mill.

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General view of Hebden Bridge showing Bridge Lanes, Heptonstall Road and the track leading to Hell Hole Rocks. In the foreground Calder Mill which was largely destroyed by fire in 1968 although by then no longer a cotton mill.

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View over Hebden Bridge showing Heptonstall Road and Queen's Terrace

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Panorama of the Derdale industrial area being served by barges on the Rochdale Canal. Centre left part of the town centre viaduct.

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An early steam powered mill, built in 1861 by Colden Cotton & Commercial Company Limited, was the last to be built in the Colden Valley. It was demolished in the 1970s following a fire. Colden School can be seen left of centre. On the very left of…
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