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Library Lock with Union Offices in recent times

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Officially called Todmorden Library Lock, No 19. The road goes over the canal by means of the Golden Lion Bridge.

The road was widened here in the 1920s; to allow the lock to remain full length it is believed that a guillotine, or vertically…

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By the amount of interest being shown here, this is probably the installation of the lock c. 1933.

The road was widened here in the 1920s; to allow the lock to remain full length it is believed that a guillotine, or vertically rising, gate was…

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Pictured at Library Lock. Area to rear of men is Veevers Wharf. Shop to left Melias shop, shop on right was firstly butchers shop run by ? Uttley and secondly pork butchers shop run by Mark Priestley. Then it became Bon Marche, and latterly Indian…

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The bridge over the canal joins Calder Holmes Park to the Memorial Gardens

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Looking down on Mytholm, Brown's works in centre picture, with the Stubbing Wharf on the Rochdale Canal in the foreground.

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Looking down on Mytholm with Brown's Works centre picture and the Stubbing Wharf Inn on Rochdale Canal in the foreground.

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Clearly a mill town. In the foreground is Pallis House and to its left smoke from a train in the cutting and above the smoke Holme House. On the left hillside Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel and dominant in the top centre Foster Mill.

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On the skyline is the tower of Dobroyd Castle, a mock gothic Victorian pile built by cotton magnate John Fielden Junior.

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In the centre the aqueduct carrying the Rochdale Canal over the River Calder. To its left Riverside School and to the right Central Dyeworks, now enlarged and converted into appartments. The industrial building top right have now gone and replced…
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