Mons Mill, Todmorden was a cotton spinning mill in Todmorden for the Hare Spinning Company Limited. It was built in 1907, but ran into financial difficulties. It passed over to the Mons Mill (1919) Co Ltd and then was taken over by the Lancashire…
Lydgate or Nott Wood Railway viaduct with Mons Mill and chimney in the centre. The viaduct is on the Burnley Branch, or Copy Pit Line as it is known in railway circles, which opened in 1849.
View from Wood Top across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, is wedged between, on the right Victoria Mill, occupied for many years by F. & H. Sutcliffe who manufactured portable wooden buildings, and on its left…
View over Hebden Bridge, with High Hurst on the horizon and showing the old Birchcliffe Chapel with its graveyard and the new one, now the Birchcliffe Centre, under construction. The houses of Eiffel Street are also under construction.
The New Birchcliffe Chapel is being built, the roof is not yet on. The old Birchcliffe chapel can be seen on the hillside beyond. In town the big mill in the centre is Nutclough Mill, clearly showing that the mill has been considerably enlarged over…
Probably about 1900. Bottom right the 'new' station built in 1891/2 and to its left the large station goods warehouse. Across Calder Holmes from it the extensive Crossley's mill.
Bottom left Calder Mill destroyed by fire 1964. Above the mill housing on both sides of Bridge Lanes. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Bottom centre Adelaide Street and above that housing on Stubbing Holme with Calder Mill and its tall chimney. Most of the mill but not the chimney was destroyed by fire in 1964. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
The picture was probably taken from near Mount Skip. In the centre of the photo on the shoulder of the hillside above Hebden Bridge can be seen the newly constructed prefabricated post war Airey Houses of the Dodnaze Estate.