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Washpit - HPC00271
NAME: WASHPIT MILLS
LOCATION: Washpit
REF: HU 21
GRID REF: 143 067
CLASSIFICATION: B and C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C – 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Situated just above Green Lane…
LOCATION: Washpit
REF: HU 21
GRID REF: 143 067
CLASSIFICATION: B and C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19C – 20C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Situated just above Green Lane…
War Memorial Unveiling - ALC01116
Unveiling the War Memorial at Mytholmroyd, 2nd July 1922. A brass band in attendance. Red Acre gas works can be seen on left. The inscription says: 75 men lost in the Great War. 75 tragic homes. 75 young women without a husband.
Walsden, Todmorden - RDA00101
A west bound goods train approaching Walsden Station. The station opened in 1845 and closed in 1961.
A new station with ‘bus stop’ style shelters was opened in 1990 but slightly to the east of the footbridge seen here to the right.
A new station with ‘bus stop’ style shelters was opened in 1990 but slightly to the east of the footbridge seen here to the right.
Vintage Car Rally, Hebden Bridge - LLG00182
This is an annual event on the first weekend in August.
View overlooking Springside, about 1900. - MOT00420
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…
View over Walsden - MOT00160
Walsden, viewed from Gauxholme Stones, in the 1950s. the station just visible on the right. Clough Mill, in the foreground, is thought to be the first cotton mill in the Todmorden area. Through the years it has been occupied by a variety of trades…
View over Todmorden - MOT00424
One of the earliest known photographs of Todmorden, about 1866, showing the building of the Unitarian Church. Waterside Mill is in the foreground.
View over Todmorden - MOT00146
General view of Todmorden from Sunnyside in the early 1900s, with the main Manchester to Leeds railway lines arcing away to the left. The triangle not yet developed here.
View over Salford area of Todmorden - MOT00147
A view of the station goods yard overlooking the Salford area. Caleb Hoyle's private coal wagons can be seen in the siding. On the hillside can be seen the Unitarian Church built by the Fieldens.
View over Mytholm, Hebden Bridge - AGW00125
The parish church of St James is in the centre of the picture. In the middle distance is Lumb Bank, the former home of Ted Hughes, with the houses of Slack on the skyline.
View over Mytholm, c1900 - ALC05184
The house in the lower centre of the photo was a Lock Keeper's House on the Rochdale Canal. To the right-hand side of the Photo is Mytholm Hall with behind it the Parish Church of Hebden Bridge - St. James the Great, and behind that the two Eaves…
View over Hebden Bridge, c1895 - HBC00767
The New Birchcliffe Chapel is being built, the roof is not yet on. The old Birchcliffe chapel can be seen on the hillside beyond. In town the big mill in the centre is Nutclough Mill, clearly showing that the mill has been considerably enlarged over…
View over Hebden Bridge, c1895 - HBC00766
Hope Baptist Church is in the foreground.
View over Hebden Bridge, c1895 - HBC00765
Taken from Fairfield the railway warehouse is prominent, with to the left of it many wagons in the sidings.
View over Hebden Bridge Station and Canal - ALC00465
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.
View over Hebden Bridge - WSC00151
Taken from Horsehold, before the demolition of High Street and the north side of Bridge Lanes in the mid-1960s. The flats at Mytholm, bottom left corner, built in 1968 still look very new. Old Town and mill along the top hillside.
View over Hebden Bridge - RAW00106
Looking over to the Birchcliffe hillside with the distinctive arches of Stubbings School in the centre. To the left of the school is St John's C of E Church consecrated in 1931 but closed in the 1980s.
View over Hebden Bridge - ALC00250
View over Hebden Bridge to Old Town. St John's church can be seen next to Stubbings School on the far right. c1964
View over Halifax. - BIM00191
Eureka carpark is in the centre, The Minster, formerly the Parish church is on the right, and Square Chapel and the spire of Square Church and the Piece Hall are on the left.