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Undated postcard. Looking up the valley to Hawksclough.

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Bernard with Charles Anson, former Queen's Press Secretary in Hebden Bridge in 1989 for a Walking Weekend.

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Bernard with Charles Anson, former Queen's Press Secretary in Hebden Bridge in 1989 for a Walking Weekend.

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The aqueduct carrying the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder. On the left Central Dyeworks now enlarged and converted into apartments Above the aqueduct Queens Terrace on Heptonstall Road. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The Rochdale Canal is lined with mills including Calder Mill with its tall chimney on the left. The chimney remains but the storeyed mill was destroyed by fire in 1964. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Boating was a popular activity on the mill pond at Gibson Mill and also, seen here, on Lord Holme Dam a little above the mill pond on the other side of the river.

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The horse drawn pleasure boat William passes what is now known as the Waterside Inn at Littleborough, which was originally known as the Railway Inn.

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This lock is number 87 Princess Street Lock.

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Probably Ashton-under-Lyne

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Either water wheel at Ashton-under-Lyne or one that was found under Dale Street car park.

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Probably trolley bus wires. c1950.

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Butler Lane lock, Lock 81, in Miles Platting.
6th April, 1908.

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The very last lock of the Rochdale Canal before it goes into Castlefield, where it joined the Bridgewater Canal.

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The beginning of both the Ashton Canal, straight ahead, and the Rochdale Canal, to the left. The Rochdale Canal continues to Castlefield where it joins the Bridgewater Canal.

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West end of the tunnel at Gaythorn. 29th September 1899.

Considered by many to be the first canal in England, the Bridgewater was engineered by James Brindley for the Duke of Bridgewater to transport coal from his mines at Worsley to the growing…
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