A regular truck stop for hungry lorry drivers, much the same as modern day service areas on our motorways. Standing outside the doorway of the Bird i'th Hand inn is a Leyland very similar to the one owned and used by the LMS Railway at Todmorden…
Calder Civic Trust members carrying out improvement works. Standing, Left to right: Barbara Shepherd, unknown, Mr Wignall, Robert Helliwell, Graham Newton, Shirley Jagger, Michael Newton. Seated on ground, left is Philip Longbottom, father of…
Part of a collection of postcards posted to Mr A Barrett, 147 Halifax Road, Todmorden dated 15.7.1918. written on the rear is: 'This is one of our lorries which prefers being in the ditch instead of keeping to the road. How this happened I cannot…