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A view of restoration work on the canal.

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On the extreme left of the picture you can just see the clock tower of Todmorden Technical College and the spire of the Unitarian Church.

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The narrow valley floor is shared by Rochdale Canal, the River Calder and the railway line.

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Situated on the Rochdale Canal between Todmorden and Littleborough

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Taking part in the Pace Egg play on the Marina, Hebden Bridge. Geraint Harris collecting money. c.2009

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Rear of Oldfield Watson's yard on the left, Crossley Mill Terrace and Machpelah beyond. The buildings on the canal bank up to the old chimney were all demolished in 1984 to make way for the new Marina. The chimney remains by the boiler house itself…

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This is an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.

After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and…

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Black Pit Lock prior to restoration in the mid-1980s. On the right the Central Dye Works is now apartments with an extra storey added. This shows the aqueduct which carries the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder.

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The Rochdale Canal and towpath prior to restoration in the mid-1980s with Machpelah on the left and Princes Bridge on Station Road.

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Undated postcard 'Exclusive to Mytholmroyd Post Office'. Rochdale Canal; Redacre Mill Hotel; The Dusty Miller; Rochdale Canal.

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Postcard c.1930. Looking down on the Rochdale Canal.

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Looking towards Hebden Bridge from Fallingroyd Bridge, with the Gas Works Manager's House towards the top on the left.
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