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John Willy Tasker, labourer - MOT00412
John Willy Tasker worked as a labourer at the electricity destructor plant at Millwood.
Celebrating the Silver Jubilee at Dawsons Albion Mill 1935 - MOT00411
Weavers celebrating the Silver Jubilee at Dawson's Albion Mill, May 1935. Dawson's had just acquired a new flag for the occasion. The names are, back row, left to right: Mrs Barker, Maud Walton, Blanche Waddington, Kathleen Marshall (behind),…
Cyril Bean, porter at Todmorden Station - MOT00410
Cyril Bean, a well-known personality, worked as a railway porter. He is pictured in the porter's room at Todmorden Station, 1970.
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…
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.
The working day - MOT00405
Weaver's and Tacklers at Emmet's shed, Caldervale Mill, Cornholme, 1913.
Career Poster - MOT00102
Spinning and weaving at Harley House, Adamroyd, and Ferney Mills, Todmorden.
Career Poster - MOT00101
Why not choose a career with Charles Crabtree Ltd and its Associated Company S and A Barker's Successors Ltd.
Todmorden Businessmen on an Outing - MOT00404
Prominent Todmordians - This group portrait - or holiday snap - of prominent Todmordians is thought to have been taken at Reivaux Abbey while they were on an outing to North Yorkshire in the early 1870s. At the rear, left, is Edward Lord - senior…
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…
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…
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.
John Fielden, J.P., of Dobroyd Castle - MOT00400
The official portrait.
Keith Cockcroft - MOT00399
Keith Cockcroft is pictured with Mrs Clara Dugdale, linen winder, on her retirement in 1957
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.
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.
Holidays - MOT00396
An outing to Ingleton of the Unitarian Choir, 1920s. The man sitting on the bonnet of the charabanc is Albion Barker, organist. Just behind him is the choirmaster, Harold Lees.
Holidays - MOT00395
Workers' outings to Blackpool. The stopping off place for photographs and liquid refreshment was the Fielden Arms at Mellor Brook. 'Broken Picks' was the title of the tacklers' outing from Joshua Smith's, Cornholme.
Third from left back row:…
Third from left back row:…
Takler's Wives - MOT00394
Workers' outings to Blackpool. The stopping off place for photographs and liquid refreshment was the Fielden Arms at Mellor Brook. 'Broken Picks' was the title of the tacklers' outing from Joshua Smith's, Cornholme.
Holidays - MOT00393
A view across the town from Park Road in the 1950s.
The only time in the year when the opposite hillside was clearly visible was when the town went on holiday and the factories were idle,
The only time in the year when the opposite hillside was clearly visible was when the town went on holiday and the factories were idle,
Holidays - MOT00392
The Collinge and Greenwood families, of Cornholme, outside their boarding house in Blackpool during the annual wakes. John Collinge is standing at the left of the group and Luther Greenwood at the right.
Cotton workers had one major annual holiday,…
Cotton workers had one major annual holiday,…
Holidays - MOT00391
Local lads on holiday at Blackpool before the First World War. Bob Barker, lying on the grass, was an apprentice whitesmith for John Bentley on Blind Lane.
