Around the year 1829 the vicar of St. Mary's in Todmorden, the Reverend Joseph Cowell, proposed that the church should be either rebuilt or enlarged at its present site. Another proposal was that it should be removed to…
The image is overwritten 'Parish Church' but this is Christ Church and not St Mary's which is the historic Parish Church. However with the opening of Christ Church in 1832 that became the Parish Church. In 1987 the decision was taken to close one of…
LYRS2797a. Looking east over the station and the town. The goods yard is now the station car park and most of the station buildings have now gone. The Stansfield or Todmorden Curve can just be seen on the far left going off beyond the signal box.
Todmorden Old Hall grounds. These gardens appear on many local people's wedding photographs as they were right next door to where the registry office was.
Once a Post Office, this photo was taken before it became a restaurant. Earlier still it was the residence of the Fielden family. Up to the middle of the 16th century all domestic building would have been timber-framed, though in towns such as…
In the 1950s the News and Advertiser under the editorship of Sam Tonkiss was printed on the hot metal press shown in the photograph above - all this was soon to change, as other pictures indicate.