This photograph was taken in the closing years of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th. The Rochdale Canal running from the bottom to the top right makes a useful guide to the town as it was then. The road over the narrow bridge at the…
On the site of the ancient manorial corn mill and facing St George’s Square, where every Good Friday the local Pace Egg Play is performed, stands Bridge Mill. The present building dates from the late 18th century and was extended in the 1820s when a…
The white painted pub is the Shoulder of Mutton, behind which is the decorative end of the Council Offices. The chimney is on Bridge Mill, and behind the shop with the blind, for many years Bonsall's hardware sop, is Linden Mill..