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  • Collection: Todmorden Antiquarian Society

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A regular truck stop for hungry lorry drivers, much the same as modern day service areas on our motorways. Standing outside the doorway of the Bird i'th Hand inn is a Leyland very similar to the one owned and used by the LMS Railway at Todmorden…

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The mill, demolished in the 1950s, was situated on Halifax road, Todmorden, adjacent to the river, on the site now occupied by flats.

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From R A Priestley

The 4th oldest Peace Monument in the world. AN 70083628

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Now demolished and site of housing estate

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By the amount of interest being shown here, this is probably the installation of the lock c. 1933.

The road was widened here in the 1920s; to allow the lock to remain full length it is believed that a guillotine, or vertically rising, gate was…

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Officially called Todmorden Library Lock, No 19. The road goes over the canal by means of the Golden Lion Bridge.

The road was widened here in the 1920s; to allow the lock to remain full length it is believed that a guillotine, or vertically…

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Completed in 1869 the Grade II listed lodge is at the gates to Todmorden’s landmark Unitarian Church, itself Grade 1 listed. When the church closed in 1987 services were held in the lodge for the dwindling congregation but this finally ended in 1992.
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