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Dauber Bridge, Cragg Road - ALC05121
The building on the right was at one time a toll house. The sign is advertising Players Navy Cut. Dauber Bridge passes over Cragg Brook.
- ALC05122
Postcard
The Lodge, Midgehole, Hebden Bridge. - ALC05123
The lodge at the entrance gates into Hardcastle Crags. Postcard
General view of Mytholmroyd - ALC05125
In the foreground is the Moderna factory and above on the right Calder High School which had opened in 1950. The new housing estate of pre-fabricated Airey houses to the left of centre in the photo is the extension to the area known as Banksfields…
General view of Mytholmroyd - ALC05126
Looking down the valley towards Luddenden Foot. Scarbottom Mill with its dam is in the centre of the picture, with the Thornber poultry houses at Elphaborough to the left of centre. Postcard
Mytholmroyd Montage - ALC05127
Various views of Mytholmroyd can be seen in this postcard
Nest Lane, Mytholmroyd - ALC05128
Postcard
St Michaels, Mytholmroyd c1950 - ALC05129
The church was built in 1848 in an Early English Style; it was a Million Pound church. The Sunday school, which can be seen on the left, was reduced to one story in the 1970s; this is now the church hall.
View over Hebden Bridge from above Dodnaze - ALC05130
The picture was probably taken from near Mount Skip. In the centre of the photo on the shoulder of the hillside above Hebden Bridge can be seen the newly constructed prefabricated post war Airey Houses of the Dodnaze Estate.
Looking over Old Town, c1910 - ALC05131
Towards the right the gabled building is Walker Lane Methodist Chapel, and to the left can be seen part of Acre Mill. Coronation Terrace is under construction.
Midgehole Dyeworks - ALC05132
Crimsworth Terrace is towards the left of the picture and Pecket Well at the top.
Old Town Vista - ALC05135
Many changes have transformed the scene at Old Town, viewed here in the early years of the last century. The big mill an the right is Acre Mill, which was a weaving mill, later owned by Cape Asbestos; the smaller mill on the left of it was the…
St Paul's, Cross Stone - ALC05136
The hamlet below the church is known locally as Little Cornwall. Top right of the picture is the graveyard for the Methodist Church.
Todmorden Secondary School, Ferney Lee Road - ALC05137
The building was originally Todmorden Grammar, which brought us two Nobel Prize winners. In the late sixties or early seventies, Scaitcliffe School on the opposite side the Burnley Road was opened as a Secondary Modern School. Later the grammar…
Centre Vale Mansion, Todmorden - ALC05138
The mansion in Centre Vale Park was once home to 'Honest' John Fielden who bought the estate in 1842. The estate was given to Todmorden Borough Council in about 1900 and opened as a public park in 1912. During the First World War it was used as a…
Todmorden Old Hall - ALC05139
Once a Post Office, this photo was taken before it became a restaurant. Earlier still it was the residence of the Fielden family. Up to the middle of the 16th century all domestic building would have been timber-framed, though in towns such as…
Bridge End, Halifax Road, Todmorden - ALC05140
Corn Mill on left. During the war they kept a fire engine inside the mill so that if the bridge was bombed or put out of action they would have an engine on that side of the bridge. Cross Stone church is on the skyline.
Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden - ALC05141
Joshua Fielden’s brother John, born in 1822, fell in love with one of his mill workers, Ruth Stansfield. The story goes that she replied to his proposal of marriage by jokingly saying that she would accept on the condition that he built her a castle…
St Mary's, Todmorden - ALC05143
The Town Hall is on the right, and the building on the left was pulled down in order to widen the junction.
