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Woodhouse Mill on left - new factory ( Heatherdale Fabrics) on right. Now Poly Hi-Solidor

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Officially opened March 23rd 1905. AN 70082790

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Heavy-lifting machinery in the new Crescent Street premises.

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Heavy-lifting machinery in the new Crescent Street premises.

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This crane was is seen working at the construction of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs.

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The clearing of the site on which the new Todmorden Medical Centre was built with the Methodist Chapel on the right of the picture. The Medical Centre was demolished in the 2000s.

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Buckley Wood behind - this is 'Todmorden Triangle'

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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

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Station staff posing for the camera. Date unknown but probably early 20th century looking up the line towards Burnley. The crossover on the level crossing was lifted by the time the station closed in 1958.

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Greens Mill in the background

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This is an old Ruston Bucyrus Dragline crane that my father Douglas Watson bought from Hydrocon of Littleborough to build the Buttress Brink retaining wall in 1968.

After commissioning it here in our old yard, we tracked it up Hope Street and…

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A new footbridge over the river is about to be installed.

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A new footbridge over the river is about to be installed.

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A new footbridge over the river is about to be installed.

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A new footbridge over the river is about to be installed.

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Its founder, Jonathan Gledhill, supervised the cutting of the first sod in June 1907.
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