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- Collection: The Making of Todmorden exhibition
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Todmorden Rope Workers - MOT00345
The date and location of the photograph are unknown.
Printing the Todmorden News in the 1950s - MOT00107
In the 1950s the News and Advertiser under the editorship of Sam Tonkiss was printed on the hot metal press shown in the photograph above - all this was soon to change, as other pictures indicate.
Proof Reading the Todmorden News - MOT00109
Editor, Pat Swift, puts another book to bed.
Todmorden News and Advertiser - MOT00110
In the 1950s the News and Advertiser under the editorship of Sam Tonkiss was printed on the hot metal press shown in the photograph above - all this was soon to change, as other pictures indicate.
Newspaper Office, Todmorden - MOT00111
The current Editor (2014) of the Todmorden News and Hebden Bridge Times, John Greenwood, pictured centre.
Todmorden Herald/Advertiser - MOT00349
Printing estimates/invoices
Todmorden Herald. - MOT00350
November 22 1905.
Todmorden Herald - MOT00351
Dickie Dewhirst, proprietor of the Todmorden Herald, outside his shop (now the Border Bookshop), Halifax Road, Todmorden. The last issue of the Herald was published on 3rd April, 1912.
Caleb Hoyle, Todmorden's foremost citizen in 1897 - MOT00397
Caleb Hoyle photographed in his mayoral robes before being presented to Queen Victoria on her Diamond Jubilee.
Members of the Cockroft family with some of the workforce at Birks Mill, about 1930. - MOT00398
Members of the Cockroft family with some of the workforce at Birks Mill, about 1930. On the front row, wearing suits, from left to right, are Herbert Cockroft, Keith, Leo, John Arthur Cockroft (the firm's founder) and Eric.
Keith Cockcroft - MOT00399
Keith Cockcroft is pictured with Mrs Clara Dugdale, linen winder, on her retirement in 1957
Ridgefoot, Todmorden - MOT00401
The mansion at Ridgefoot, about 1890, home of Abraham Ormerod, cotton manufacturer. On the left is Ridgefoot Mill which was primarily a weaving shed, run by the Ormerod Bros from 1842.
William Simpson, Shirt Manufacturer, Hallroyd. - MOT00402
In his book 'I Haven't Unpacked' Billy Holt describes 'Old Sinbad', as he was known locally, who first took him on as a half-timer: "The proprietor was a short, stout, fussy old man with a round, untrimmed grey beard and a pair of steel-rimmed…
Advert for William Simpson, Shirt Manufacturer, Hallroyd - MOT00403
In his book 'I Haven't Unpacked' Billy Holt describes 'Old Sinbad', as he was known locally, who first took him on as a half-timer: "The proprietor was a short, stout, fussy old man with a round, untrimmed grey beard and a pair of steel-rimmed…
Career Poster - MOT00101
Why not choose a career with Charles Crabtree Ltd and its Associated Company S and A Barker's Successors Ltd.
Career Poster - MOT00102
Spinning and weaving at Harley House, Adamroyd, and Ferney Mills, Todmorden.
The working day - MOT00405
Weaver's and Tacklers at Emmet's shed, Caldervale Mill, Cornholme, 1913.
The working day. Alma Dawson, weaver - MOT00406
Alma Dawson, aged about 17, weaver at Dawson's in 1943. Like most weavers, Alma looked after 4 looms.
Celebrating the end of war in 1945 - MOT00409
Celebrating the end of the war in Waterside shed, 1945. From left to right, Tommy Hudders, Sid Parton, Gladys Thomas, Vera Bailey, Clifford Mattison, Evelyn Lord, Arnold Brainbridge; front row, Connie Butterworth, Charlie Hartley and Muriel…