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LYRS 4986 - River Bridge Ground Frame Box (front & door gable) with the CWS Grain Warehouse. The warehouse with its own siding belonged to the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) who had a large flour mill adjacent to it. The mill was badly damaged…

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LYRS 3801 - West Signal Box on the Goods Yard and Loco Depot was situated near the east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The ground floor contains the mechanism for connecting the levers to their respective points or signals. The Box and the depots have…

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LYRS 4947 - Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box (front & door gable) and east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The box controlled the Goods Yard and Loco Depot and all have now gone. Note two disc type ground signals in the foreground. The main signal in the…

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LYRS 8622 - 1967. Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box (front & door gable) and the east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The box and the Goods and Loco Depots it controlled have all gone.

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LYRS 4945 - Station Signal Box ( 'chimney' side & non-door gable) at the junction with the Rishworth Branch. The box has now gone and the tracks visible in this photo have all been lifted.

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LYRS 6101 - 1963. Sowerby Bridge Station Signal Box - 'stove' side and window gable. At the junction with the Rishworth Branch although that had completely closed by the time this photo was taken. The box has now gone and the tracks visible in this…

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LYRS 6103 - 1963. Sowerby Bridge Station Signal Box - 'stove' side and door gable looking west. The tracks going off left were the Rishworth Branch although that had completely closed by the time this photo was taken. The Box has now gone and all the…

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Station frontage looking down Station Road. The station with its imposing Tudor style building replaced an earlier station near Sowerby Tunnel and was built in the late 1870s when the Rishworth Branch was constructed. It was hastily demolished…

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The station approach in BR days. The station was demolished in 1978 following serious fire damage and all that remains is the single storey building on the left now the Jubilee Refreshment Rooms.

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South View, Wallis Street, Tuel Lane, Sowerby Bridge

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Sowerby Bridge Industrial Society Co-op Hall, Carlton Street, Sowerby Bridge

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This is Wakefield Road near Sowerby Bridge looking towards Copley. The cordoned off area is where the road collapsed, and the gooseberry bush on the right is at the top of an area of allotments.

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Possibly subsidence on Wakefield Road near Sowerby Bridge.

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HRH Prince Charles visits Sowerby Bridge Feb 1987. To his left is Cllr. Geoffrey Fielden.

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Starting in the top right corner we have the industial premises at the end of Walton Street and Sowerby Bridge Cricket Ground. The dark diagonal line is the River Calder flowing R to L. The thinner dark line is the Rochdale Canal, between the 2 is…

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The diagonal road is Hollins Mill Lane, the road across the bottom is Hollins Lane, the area bottom right is known as Hill Top.

The open area in the centre bellow the river is the site of Hollins Mill.

The area above the river on the left is…

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The view from the bridge over the River Calder on Town Hall Street, Sowerby Bridge, on the right are the rear of the buildings on Hollings Mill Lane, which when this photo was taken included the swimming pool.

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Asquith Bottom Mills, William Edlestones were the owners. The bridge the image is taken from is Stirk Bridge. Centre right you can just see a bit of the half size Bowling Green provided for the employees to use.

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Asquith Bottom Mill owned by William Eddleston. The river here is the Ryburn at Stirk Bridge. On the right you can see the half size bowling green provided for employees..
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