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Steam-powered cotton-spinning mill built beside Rochdale Canal in 1855-6, from 1879 used for cotton weaving. Original building, unusually for spinning mill, a single-storeyed shed with corner beam-engine house. Two-storeyed warehouse at corner perhaps original, shed enlarged and offices added before 1890. Minor demolition.
Hope Mill at Work places in the Todmorden District over the last 3 centuries, with detailed histories and photographs of this work place, and stories of the men and women who worked in them.
Aerial photographic view of Hope Mill (Todmorden and Walsden, West Yorkshire).
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