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Showing the strengthening work that has been carried out on the bridge.

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NAME: CANAL WHARF SAW MILLS
LOCATION: Half a mile SE of Hebden Bridge
REF: CD122
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Mostly used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This mill has a long history of clog-making since it was…

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NAME: CANAL WHARF SAW MILLS
LOCATION: Half a mile SE of Hebden Bridge
REF: CD122
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Mostly used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This mill has a long history of clog-making since it was…

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Formerly occupied by Broadbent Machine Tools. This mill reminded Donald of Ted Hughes' poem 'Under the world's Rim'.

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Carlton Mill, Sowerby Bridge. The building in the foregroung is Turks Head Inn.

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NAME: CARRFIELD MILL
LOCATION: Portsmouth
REF: CD 58
GRID REF: 902 261
CLASSIFICATION: A
CONDITION: Mostly Disappeared
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: High up the Calder Valley, this was a large cotton…

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The present Castle Gate Mill, a grade II listed building, is early 19th century and has been renovated for domestic use.

Rev John Watson (1725-1783) refers to a Castle Gate Mill in his history of the district, and that was probably the original…

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The Castle Street area, Halifax Road, viewed from above Castle Hill tunnel. The scene is dominated by Cinderhill Mills. The Rose and Crown Inn can be seen in the lower centre.

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

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Celebrating the end of the war in Waterside shed, 1945. From left to right, Tommy Hudders, Sid Parton, Gladys Thomas, Vera Bailey, Clifford Mattison, Evelyn Lord, Arnold Brainbridge; front row, Connie Butterworth, Charlie Hartley and Muriel…

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Weavers celebrating the Silver Jubilee at Dawson's Albion Mill, May 1935. Dawson's had just acquired a new flag for the occasion. The names are, back row, left to right: Mrs Barker, Maud Walton, Blanche Waddington, Kathleen Marshall (behind),…

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Located next to the Rochdale Canal near Hebble End.

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Chaffers Wheelwright's shop at Salford. A scene inside the wheelwright's shop at Salford, 1905-10. This staged photograph taken by Herbert Hardaker shows the process of 'hooping the wheel'. The middle figure is Young Chaffer who, with his brother,…

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NAME: Chapel Field Mill, Ripponden
LOCATION: Elland Road, Ripponden
REF: RY 20
GRID REF: 042 197
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: The present three storey,…

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The track to left of train is the site of the infamous curve. It was the cause of many accidents over the years including a serious derailment in 1912 with several casualities including three fatalities. The detached house in the foreground is called…

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1939. Replacing the original 1840 bowstring, or trussed frame, bridge over the Rochdale Canal with the metal trough bridge we see today.

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Behind the viaduct is Calderside Mill built in the 1820s by John Whiteley, after whom the viaduct came to be named. Reputedly it had the tallest chimney in the valley.

The bridge over the canal was a very early skew bridge and also one of the very…
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