Woodhouse Mill, built in 1832, was sited directly alongside the Rochdale Canal to take advantage of the transport facilities and process water. The small engine house can be seen on the left of the mill. The chimney was detached from the mill in…
Robinwood c1910, a panorama of industry and communications with the 13 arch Nott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley line, the so called Copy Pit Line. Robinwood Mill, built in 1834, and purchased by Fielden Bros. in 1844, became the centre of…
Woodhouse Mill, seen from the towing path of the Rochdale Canal, c. 1906. The three-storey terrace of houses was called Bank View. The improvements and inventions of Hargreaves' spinning jenny, Crompton's mule, and later, Cartwright's power loom…
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company had to build a double retaining wall alongside the canal side at Salford due to land subsidence but also to extend the goods yard.
The skew bridge passing over the Rochdale Canal at Gauxholme with a clear span of 101 ft. The castellated abutments of solid masonry were brought from Knowlwood Quarry. Along with Whiteley Arches at Charlestown this was one of the first bow string…
When the railway was constructed in the late 1830s the canal had to be diverted to make way for the deep railway cutting. The line of the canal originally ran closer to the cottages on Square Road, via the present railway bridge and through what is…
A canal boat off-loading stone at the corporation yard at Waterside, 1904.
With the use of water power, the output of cloth increased. This increase in trade saw the opening up of the valleys and the construction of Turn Pike Roads, with their…
Sowerby Bridge is situated at the junction of the narrow Calder and Hebble Navigation and the broader Rochdale Canal. In the heyday of the canals, in the 1800s, the wharf here was a busy trans-shipment area for goods being moved from one canal to the…
The new building is under construction at the same time as the old building is being demolished. The red brick building is the Trades Club on Holme Street.