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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 assist tablet users who may find the drop-down menu inconvenient Links are provided on the main 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 |
| 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 |
| Industrial Histories |
| History Trails |
| Littleborough Book |
| Littleborough Books |
| Pubs & Inns |
| Clegg Hall & Smithy Bridge |
| 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 |
| Deanhead Chemical Works |
| Akzo Chemical Works |
| Clegg's Shore Mills |
| Consterdine textile Mills |
| Heap's West View Mills |
| Rayon (Artificial Silk) Manufacture |
| Schofield Textile Mills |
| Mills |
| Starring Pottery |
| Summit Brickworks |
| Tetlows Pottery |
| Whittaker Pottery |
| Coal Mining Map |
| Starring Clay and Coal Mine |
| Cleggswood Colliery |
| Mining around Hollingworth |
| Shackleton - Coal Merchant |
| Possible Roman Littleborough |
| Blackstone Edge Roman Road |
| Falllen Heroes not on Littleborough Cenotaph |
| Roll of Honour |
| WW2 Heroes |