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Looking down towards the canal from beside the Post Office.

Westfield Mill with BCA Leisure is on the left. Broadbent Machine Tools is on the right, this building was originally called Empress Foundry, now Empress Works.

BCA made wiring harnesses…

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Broadbent's from the canal bridge on Midgley Road, falling into disrepair in 2002. The short stretch of wall in the foreground is the remains of Grange Dene Mill.

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The floor showing the pit for the big planing machine. The red brick building in the centre was Waites' bakery. Waite's ceased trading after the disastrous floods of boxing Day 2015, when not only their shops were flooded but the bakery as well.

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Derek Pollard with the lathe in the fitting shop of Broadbent Machine Tools, Mytholmroyd in 1998.

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The dam and the engine house. The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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Engine room. The mill chimney and the engine house were demolished in 1986 and the site was totally cleared in March 2000.

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Generator in the engine house at Charlie Crabtree's Mill, Todmorden

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Derek Pollard and Roy Baker, May 1957

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Taken probably in the 1960s before the canal was culverted at Hebble End Bridge.

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Beyond the bridge the road to Fairfield goes to the left whilst straight up leads to Horsehold.

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The bridge over the Rochdale Canal links the Memorial Gardens to Calder Holmes Park. Situated behind the Picture House, it was constructed preparatory to the opening of the gardens in 1938.

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The mill on New Road and next to the Rochdale Canal was destroyed by fire in December 1964. By that time it was used to store Moderna blankets.
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