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Frostholme Mill, Cornholme - TAS00709
Heap and Ashworth, from Bacup and Rossendale, worked at CALDERVALE weaving shed throughout the depression of the cotton famine. After 4 or 5 years there, they built a weaving shed for 400 looms and a carding and spinning mill at Frostholme, near the…
Mons Mill, Todmorden - TAS00704
Hare Mill was built in 1907; the first sod was cut on 1 June 1907. It had cost £218,285 to build, and there were financial and boardroom problems and the mill finally opened in August 1912. A second identical mill was proposed, but never built. There…
The Corn Mill, Hallroyd - TAS00702
The mill, demolished in the 1950s, was situated on Halifax road, Todmorden, adjacent to the river, on the site now occupied by flats.
Horse Drawn Barge on the Rochdale Canal - TAS00315
Possibly Bar Street area
At Work on the Rochdale Canal - TAS00313
At Derdale
Corona Chimney, Dean Clough Mill, Halifax. - CBC06234
Photographed in early 1960's. This chimney is now a Grade II listed building.
Top of Winding Road, Halifax, c. early 1980s - CBC06194
This is the view of the top of Winding Road. The buildings in the immediate foreground are now the site of the bus station.
Shaw Lodge Mills - CBC06189
Shaw Lodge Mills, between Halifax and Siddal. The chimney is very impressive as it stands away from the mill on Boy Lane.
Cornholme Station - RDA00179
The station on the 'Copy Pit Line' from Todmorden to Burnley opened in 1878 some 30 years after the line and the station closed in 1938.
Cornholme - Wilson's Bobbin Mill. - RDA00150
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 'Copy Pit' Line between Todmorden and Burnley passing Wilson’s ‘bobbin mill'.
"Wilson's Bobbin Mill once dominated the village of Cornholme. The vast four-storey building, with its eye-catching clock bridge…
"Wilson's Bobbin Mill once dominated the village of Cornholme. The vast four-storey building, with its eye-catching clock bridge…
The Railway and Rochdale Canal at Gauxholme - RDA00145
1904/05 and a busy industrial scene, looking east towards Todmorden. To the right can be seen a section of the long, low viaduct, and further in the distance the bow string bridge with its castellated abutments. In the centre foreground is the…
Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - RDA00142
Looking over to Heptonstall Road with Heptonstall Church on the skyline. Early 20th century prior to building of Riverside School in 1909.
Naze Bottom, Charlestown - RDA00141
Looking towards Hebden Bridge with the tall chimney of Calderside Mill and barely visible below it the road passing under Whiteley Arches. A railway signal can just be seen below the top row of houses.
Charlestown - Whiteley Arches c.1890. - RDA00140
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…
The bridge over the canal was a very early skew bridge and also one of the very…
Gauxholme Viaduct & Bridge. - RDA00114
A rambling viaduct of 17 stone spans of 35ft and 1 of 60ft plus the iron span bridge over the Rochdale Canal, much plainer than its more famous neighbour to the east of the viaduct.
Shade, Todmorden - RDA00112
View over Shade School to Dobroyd Castle on the far hillside.
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.
Looking towards Wigan Pier on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal - PNH00212
Trencherfield Mill
Fountain at Spring Edge, King Cross, Halifax - CBC06161
The fountain was erected in 1884. The photo appears to have been taken from Free School Lane. Date unknown but possibly 1980s as the new housing estate at Spring Edge can be seen, looking new.
Soil Hill Pottery, - CBC06081
Causeway Foot, Halifax. April 1980. The pottery was originally opened in 1874 but was moved to this location around 1900. The company closed in 1965 and the kiln, drying shed and chimney have been listed.
Luddenden Foot - WAO00271
View of Luddenden Foot