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View over the station goods yard to the Unitarian Chapel.

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Situated on Lumbutts Road it is now a traditional country pub.

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Causey, or Causeway, Wood Dam in Lumbutts Clough with Causeywood Mill, or Folly Mill.

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Off the road from Todmorden at Knowl Wood to Lumbutts. Between Shepherds Rest and Swineshead. There used to be a fair held here.

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Built in the late 1870s as Todmorden's Workhouse but after 1948 it became a hospital for the mentally handicapped. The building was demolished in 1996.

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Oldroyd in Lumbutts Clough, demolished in the 1920s.

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Folly Mill, in Lumbutts Clough. Seen here in a derelict condition and it was demolished in the 1920s. The row of houses was known locally as Mouse Nest.

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A small village on the moors above Todmorden with Stoodley Pike on the skyline and the United Methodist Chapel centre right.

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On the moors above Todmorden with Stoodley Pike above.

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Situated on the Bacup Road from Gauxholme. Top left the remains of the waterwheel casement of Gorpley Mill, demolished in 1894.

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Todmorden Waterworks Gorpley Reservoir came into operation in 1905.

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Built in 1805 and taken over by the Ormerods in 1823 for cotton spinning and extended in 1838. They vacated it in 1865 and it stood empty for many years before being demolished in 1894. Seen here shortly before demolition.

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Construction of filter beds at Gorpley Reservoir.

Gorpley Waterworks was finally opened in 1905. The work was completed by Benjamin Lumb, the local builder.

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Believed to be at Gorpley Reservoir.

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Can anybody identify?

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Believed to be Gorpley Reservoir on the moors south of Bacup Road.

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On the north hillside above Bacup Road near Gauxholme.

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Looking down the clough in the direction of Gauxholme.

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On the Bacup Road out of Gauxholme.

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Looking down to Cloughfoot.

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Originally Peel Mill it was converted into an isolation, or fever, hospital in 1875 following a smallpox epidemic in Todmorden in which 32 people died. It closed after the Second World War.

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Originally known as Hole-Bottom-Meadow-Bottom. Situate on the north hillside above Burnley Road.

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A cotton spinning mill at Meadow Bottom; it was destroyed by fire in February 1918.
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