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Springside 1910 - This view overlooking Springside provides a splendid record of the mills, which once dominated this part of the valley. In the foreground, lying between the river and the Rochdale canal is Nanholme Mill, which was used primarily for…

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View over Todmorden with the Rochdale Canal restoration in progress. 1984. Ref: 67-512

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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The River Calder snakes its way through the picture, with the Rochdale Canal on the left initially and then on the right. Note the funfare in the Community Centre carpark.

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Moderna Trading Estate in the foreground, and Calder High School centre right

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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.

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Panorama of the Derdale industrial area being served by barges on the Rochdale Canal. Centre left part of the town centre viaduct.

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The low white building in the foreground is Palace House, after which the road is named. The large building in the foreground on the left is the Roman Catholic Church which was built 1896 and closed in 1991.

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3rd May, 1996. Celebrating the re-opening of the Rochdale Canal through Sowerby Bridge with the construction of Tuel Lane Lock, now the deepest inland waterway lock in the UK at 19ft 8½inches, connecting to the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

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The sign says Death Trap, there were many accidents here because of the sharpness of the turns on and off the bridge.

The tramcar to Hebden Bridge crossing Falling Royd Bridge is No 107, constructed at the Halifax Corporation Tramways workshops in…

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Tram on Fallingroyd Bridge half way between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. The 'S' shaped bridge was an infamous black spot before it was re-aligned and the sign reads DEATH TRAP

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The brick 'Great Wall' supported the sidings and goods yard to the west of the station above the canal.


It is generally accepted that around 4 million bricks were used to construct the revetment known as the Great Wall of Todmorden. However,…

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The gasworks area, looking towards Woodhouse, in the late 19th Century

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PNH00830.March 1990. View over the Canal to Stoodley Pike.

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LYRS 6010 - The handsome cast iron skew bridge over the Rochdale Canal near Todmorden with castellated Gothic abutments, viewed from the hillside. When built in 1839/40 this was one of the first bow-string bridges in the country.

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LYRS 6011 - The handsome cast iron skew bridge over the Rochdale Canal near Todmorden with castellated Gothic abutments, viewed from the hillside. When built in 1839/40 this was one of the first bow-string bridges in the country.
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