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Welcome to my website on Littleborough
developed in conjunction with the
Littleborough Historical & Archaeological Society. Created with the benefit of having complete access to the Society’s extensive Document and Picture Archive - Please enjoy!
To navigate the site including the new pages, why not start at the “Intro” page. For meetings go”Here”. To improve navigation and assist tablet users who may find the drop-down menu inconvenient, each page has Links to the next page. Click on “TOP” to return to the top of the page
ABOVE - Panorama of Littleborough from Cleggswood Hill. From right to left - Littleborough Canal Wharf with Holy Trinity Parish Church behind;
The site of the coal drops was where trucks are parked - now taken by the revised road layout.
Littleborough Station behind (buildings now the History Centre)
| History Centre |
| Contact Us |
| Gordon Harvey |
| Town House Mill |
| Richard Jay - Coach Operator |
| William Burrill |
| Richard Jay Haukier |
| Leach - Cycles to Haulage |
| H M Sutcliffe |
| J Grindrod & Son Ltd |
| R Rudge and Son Ltd |
| Canal Restoration |
| Industrial Histories |
| History Trails |
| Littleborough Book |
| Littleborough Books |
| Pubs & Inns |
| Early Schools |
| Non-conformist schools |
| C of E and RC Schools |
| Board and Local Authority Schools |
| Chapels iSummit & Calderboork |
| Closed Chapels Shore Caldermoor Croft |
| Chapels Featherstall Stubley Rakewood |
| Rechabites |
| Clegg Hall & Smithy Bridge |
| Smithy brige Train Distaster |
| Railways in Littleborough Centre |
| Littleborough Viaduct to Summit Tunnel |
| Summit Tunnel |
| Industrial Railways |
| Was summit Tunnel Necessary |
| Blackstone Edge Turnpike |
| Calderbrook Turnpike |
| Doghill to Steanor Bottom Turnpike |
| Todmorden Rd TP |
| Toll Roads |
| Farming |
| List of Farms |
| Co-op - Early Grpwth |
| Coop - Central Premises & Competition |
| Coop in 20th Century |
| Coop Decline & Change |
| LANCTAN |
| Schofield Iron Woks |
| Phoenix Iron Works |
| Ebor Engineering |
| Deanhead Chemical Works |
| Akzo Chemical Works |
| Law's mills |
| Clegg's Shore Mills |
| Consterdine textile Mills |
| Schofield Textile Mills |
| Heap's West View Mills |
| Rayon (Artificial Silk) Manufacture |
| Mills |
| Starring Pottery |
| Summit Brickworks |
| Tetlows Pottery |
| Whittaker Pottery |
| Coal Mining Map |
| Starring Clay and Coal Mine |
| Cleggswood Colliery |
| Shackleton - Coal Merchant |
| Mining around Hollingworth |
| Possible Roman Littleborough |
| Blackstone Edge Roman Road |
| Falllen Heroes not on Littleborough Cenotaph |
| Roll of Honour |
| WW2 Heroes |