Browse Items (1749 total)

  • Collection: Todmorden Antiquarian Society

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAL00419.jpg
Officially opened March 23rd 1905. AN 70082790

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00104.jpg
Having arrived at the Sandbed terminus, Eastwood, the bus will depart for the Town Hall once the conductor has changed the destination board. The white bands painted on lamp posts were to inform passengers that these were a bus stop. Not all posts…

Tags: , ,

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00105.jpg
Yet another photo stop on the journey to Steanor Bottom, beyond Walsden. Outside the Railway Inn or Tavern at the junction with Alma Road, Walsden.

The hotel building is still there but has been converted to apartments, the building on the left has…

Tags: , ,

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00974.jpg
Two of the mill dams for Lumbutts Mill are in the frground and also Lumbuts Chapel.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS03274.jpg
Taken near the junction of Halifax Road and Rochdale Road. The building in the centre is the former Municipal Offices, Rise Lane, now apartments. Previously Pickles furniture store

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00462.jpg
A school and preaching room opened here in 1841 but they soon outgrew it and a new school and chapel opened in 1848 at Inchfield Bottom. This too proved too small and another chapel was built in 1861 as seen here.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS03272.jpg
Built 1908 used for unemployment payments, registry and education offices

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00437.jpg
Built 1865/69 the church is Grade 1 listed and looking more like a cathedral than a non-conformist chapel with its 192 foot spire visible for miles around making it one of the areas landmarks. Todmorden’s first Unitarian church had opened in 1823 but…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00436.jpg
Situated off Longfield Road, Todmorden it is Grade II listed. Built in 1823 this was Todmorden’s first Unitarian Church but as the congregation outgrew it so the new church, which still dominates the area, was built opening in 1869 and the old…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00444.jpg
During the first half of the 19th century there was a gradual movement from the hilltop villages down to the growing small mill towns in the valley bottom and in 1851 a small group from Shore Baptist Chapel on the hillside formed a congregation in…
Output Formats

atom, csv, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2