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…
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.