A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.
The tram tracks can be clearly seen in the photograph of Fallingroyd Bridge which takes the road over the Rochdale Canal. This bridge was an accident blackspot and was demolished to be replaced by a culverted section of the canal, which allowed some…
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…