Buttress Brink was a warren of dwellings near the end of Old Bridge and facing the old Hole-in-the-Wall Inn. When the buildings were scheduled for demolition many said they should be preserved, but no-one wanted to live there.
This sign was on the old Hole in the Wall inn at the bottom of Buttress. The building was demolished in the late 1890s and replaced with the present building, which opened its doors in 1899.
Holme House Mill, Booth, where water power was in use until 1941. The mill had been owned by the Ogden family since 1769: after it was dismantled it is believed the waterwheel was moved to Shibden Hall, Halifax.
Holme Station, Cliviger on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. On 27th October 1907 some wagons on a coal train became detached at Copy Pit and rolled back down and leaving the track demolished the Booking Office killing the Booking Clerk.
Photo taken behind Burnley Road school, looking towards Mytholmroyd. The barge has just been through Broadbottom lock. The building on the left is part of the sewerage works and the gas holder can be seen in the distance.
Horse-drawn charabanc by the Lodge at Midgehole at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags. As seen here they were usually pulled by a four-in-hand team of horses. They could carry a large number of passengers this one has over twenty. Introduced from…
A team of at least eleven horses hauling up past Lee Wood one of the 15 Bagnall locos used on the construction of Halifax Corporation's Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This usually happened on a Saturday afternoon when the heavy cart horses belonging to…
In the 1960's before Moderna Blankets a company called D.E.Stuttard Ltd made oil fired boilers called 'Desomatic'. R Thomas 01422 846392 as a brass plate which was attached to the boilers. Ref: 037.
Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…