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  • Collection: The Making of Todmorden exhibition

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The first bus to go to the new housing estate at Ashenhurst, Sunday 14 August 1938.

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Driver William Nothard and conductor George Atkinson with No.3 bus at Eastwood, 1907.

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Todmorden & District Carriage Company logo

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The co-operative movement in Todmorden started in the early 19th Century and expanded rapidly for the next 100 years. From one small store, the movement grew until there were general stores in every part of the area. The main store was in Dale Street…

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List of Todmorden Co-op directors

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Ad for Todmorden Co-op

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The central stores of the Todmorden Co-op on Dale Street, shown in its Jubilee year, 1896.

The co-operative movement in Todmorden started in the early 19th Century and expanded rapidly for the next 100 years. From one small store, the movement…

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Shop assistants pose outside the Todmorden Co-op grocery store

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First Motor Fire Engine - Local officials and visitors from neighbouring towns met at the Fire Station on 30th October 1914 to witness the arrival of the new motor fire engine, delivered by Merryweather & Co. of London. Shortly after 2 o'clock,…

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The horse-drawn fire tender with its crew are photographed on Rochdale Road before joining a procession, about 1905. The man holding the horse is John Hamer Hollinrake who, in 1911, became the Chief Fire Officer.

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The Charter Day procession, 22nd August 1896. The procession, headed by the county police, is passing under the railway viaduct on Burnley Road. The building on the right is Ormerod's Mill.

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The Demonstration of the Band of Hope Union c.1908. Most of the chapels took part in this annual parade in July. The photograph shows the procession leaving Hazlewood Street.

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Lifeboat Saturday procession, 7th July 1906. The RNLI lifeboat 'Busbie', from Fleetwood, is being turned at the end of Richmond street to complete its voyage through the town.

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Waterside Mill fire 1901 - On 17th June 1901 fire destroyed the old spinning mill belonging to Fielden Bros. Built around 1800 and adjoining the Laneside cottages, the four-storey building was the first of many extensions and additions that would…

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Masons rebuilding part of Frostholm Mill, Cornholme, after it was devastated by fire in 1896.

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The scene on the morning after the 1878 fire which devastated Moss Bros dyeworks at Eastwood.

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Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm…

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Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm…

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Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm…
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