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Long disused but the valve for controlling the turbine is still distinguishable.

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Originally Maude's, later Walkleys. Before the railway line was built the track across the field to the right hand side of this picture was the road to the hamlet of Stubb. The road disappearing off to the right towards the bottom of the picture…

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This cobbled road leads to Redacre sewage works and to Broadbottom Farm.

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The wagon is dressed up for the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in May 1935.

Percy Pollard, in flat cap, was the steam engine tenter. The wagon would be loaded with calico made at 'Old Charlie's Crabtree's'

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Generator in the engine house at Charlie Crabtree's Mill, Todmorden

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Scarbottom Mill is in the centre of the picture.

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Engine room. The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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The dam and the engine house. The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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Derek Pollard with the lathe in the fitting shop of Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd in 1998.

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The floor showing the pit for the big planing machine. The red brick building in the centre was Waites' bakery. Waite's ceased trading after the disastrous floods of boxing Day 2015, when not only their shops were flooded but the bakery as well.

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Broadbent's from the canal bridge on Midgley Road, falling into disrepair in 2002. The short stretch of wall in the foreground is the remains of Grange Dene Mill.

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Looking down towards the canal from beside the Post Office.

Westfield Mill with BCA Leisure is on the left. Broadbent Machine Tools is on the right, this building was originally called Empress Foundry, now Empress Works.

BCA made wiring harnesses…

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Notice of auction of machine tools.
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