Entries beginning Todmorden ... and The Todmorden ... are gathered together in this Sidetrack.
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Population,
Parish statistics and
Todmorden & Lancashire
In 1905, it was published by Frederick Lee & Company.
It later became The Todmorden News & Advertiser.
See
John Blackburn
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Roger Birch
In December 1894, a winding-up notice was published and the Vale Bobbin Mill was advertised for sale.
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Cornholme Manufacturing Company
An advertisement for the business in 1882 announced that they were
The first route was a Saturday service to Cornholme.
This was followed by a service to the Woodman Inn at Charlestown, and a third to the Waggon & Horses at Walsden.
Their horses were stabled behind the Golden Lion.
In 1888,
Mitchell Helliwell was Manager
and
Jonathan Gledhill was Secretary.
In 1900, their livery stables were at Canal Yard, Todmorden.
In December 1912, the horses and carriages of the Company were sold
for £500.
See
Edward William Bell Sendall
See
William Hollinrake and
William Singleton
In 1917, it was published in Fridays by Waddington & Sons
In 1912, Mrs Greenwood gave £1,000 towards
the Todmorden District Nursing Scheme
On 14th February 1913, the first annual meeting of the Todmorden &
District Nursing Institute was reported
James Wilkinson was Secretary until August 1911
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Todmorden Weavers' Association
From 8th August 1857, it was published weekly on Friday.
In 1917, it was published by Frederick Lee
Published annually by
W. Barker and John Firth,
Thomas Dawson,
and
Mason & Howorth
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Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School,
Crimsworth Board School and
Roomfield Board School
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Todmorden & Walsden Select Vestry [1838],
Todmorden Constables and
Walsden Constables
See
Mankinholes Riots and
Todmorden Board of Guardians
This was a forerunner of the Local Boards and Town Councils.
Small townships such as Todmorden & Walsden were governed by a
committee of mainly self-appointed local individuals with money and
time on their hands.
These men were drawn from the freeholders, ratepayers and clergy.
They could be described as
They appointed officers from within their own ranks to serve the
community
On 31st July 1897
See
Band of Hope and
Cornholme & Shore United Band of Hope
See
Mankinholes Riots,
Todmorden & Walsden Overseers of the Poor and
Todmorden Poor Law Union
Recorded in 1888
when
George Slater was Secretary,
T. Schofield was Treasurer,
and
Jeremiah Slater was Librarian.
The Todmorden charter was presented to Queen Victoria
on 13th May 1896.
The borough was established on 22nd August 1896.
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Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale,
Todmorden Centenary Way and
Yorkshire-Lancashire Border
See
Lionel Fielden Cockcroft,
Caleb Hoyle and
Todmorden Town Council
Created to celebrate the granting of Borough status to the
town
It links with the Calderdale Way, and the Pennine Way
and the motto
Abraham Stansfield was the editor of the paper.
After 13 fortnightly editions, it ceased publication on 30th January
1841
The five men were arrested, and went on trial in March 1932.
On 16th March 1932, after a hearing which lasted 26 hours, they were
sent for trial at Leeds Assizes.
On 21st April 1932, there were rowdy demonstrations at the start of
the trial at Leeds Assizes.
10 men – mostly members of the Unemployed Workers'
Movement – were arrested, tried and sentenced the same day.
Amongst the group was Edward Kennedy of Halifax.
The trial ended on 6th May 1932, with guilty verdicts
against Holt, Newell and Howell
In 1884, they moved to Bankfoot, Pavement.
Recorded in 1888, when
John Fielden was President.
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Todmorden Conservative Club
On 7th March 1913, the club bought the former Fielden Temperance Hotel & Coffee Tavern for the purposes of extension.
The membership was then 238.
The Todmorden Conservative Club Company was recorded in 1917
at Fielden Square, when Thomas Woodhead was secretary.
See
Rev Arthur W. Fox,
Lydgate Conservative Club and
Todmorden Conservative & Constitutional Association
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Todmorden & Walsden constables and
Walsden constables
Officers at the Club have included
The park is still the club's home ground.
It is claimed that this is the only Yorkshire team to play in the
Lancashire league, but the cricket ground is both in Yorkshire and
Lancashire, and the historic and true county border runs through
the middle of the ground.
The border follows the true river course, not the diverted course
which was constructed in the 1830s.
The cricket ground is to the south of the Calder, but the cricket
ground and the school were built after the river was diverted,
and the border runs through both.
The pavilion of the cricket club is in Lancashire.
Past members of the club include
J. B. Briggs,
Hampton Neil Dansie,
Harold Dawson,
Kenneth Fiddling,
Peter Greenwood,
Johnny Horsfall,
Richard Horsfall,
Peter Lever,
François Du Plessis and
Derek Shackleton
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Hundersfield
John Wesley is recorded as first visiting the house on 6th May
1747, and is said to have preached from a window here.
William Grimshaw held the first Methodist Quarterly meeting
here on 18th October 1748.
The listed barn is inscribed HMK for Henry
and Martha Kailey
See
Esperanto
A fair was also held at Michaelmas.
This was the back-end fair
The Rose of Paradise Lodge was a division of the Society
In 1900, Edward Heywood, from Oldham, was appointed
Superintendent of the brigade and driver of the engine at a salary of
30/- per week, with house, coal and gas.
See
George Arthur Cooper and
Todmorden Fire Station
A new fire station was built in 19??.
See
Walter Lord
Like other mills at the time, they carried on the illegal practice of
adding a small amount of alum to the flour to make it white.
After one of their millers was dismissed for some misdemeanour, he
reported this practice to the police who raided the mill and
confirmed the allegations.
The Society never recovered from the stigma and went bankrupt in 1861.
See
Isaac Fielden and
Todmorden Co-operative Flour Society
They held meetings at the Golden Lion, Todmorden.
Their match ground was at Longfield and their dressing rooms were in
the York Hotel
Provision was made for 18,000 volumes.
Todmorden Industrial & Co-operative Society donated 8,400 which were
formerly in their members' library.
Many other organisations and individuals contributed books to the
collection.
When it opened, there were 9,216 books in the lending library, and
2,000 in the reference section.
The library was presented to the town by Todmorden Industrial & Co-operative Society.
In 1909, Fred Lord was Librarian.
In 19??, Todmorden Co-operative Society backed plans to build a new
library, reading room, museum, and lecture theatre.
This came to naught when the surveyor left and took the plans with
him.
See
Blackheath barrow and
Toadcarr Library, Todmorden
The rival Todmorden Gas Company was formed in 1845.
Abraham Ormerod was the Chairman.
The Todmorden Gas Works were built in 1847 at a cost of
£10,000.
On 27th October 1859, it was decided to light the streets of
Todmorden with gas.
John Fingland was manager of Todmorden Gas Works [1869]
The farmhouse there, dated 1764, was converted into the club
house.
Recorded in 1912, when
the membership was 118.
Helen Gray was a member.
... prepared to supply four-in-hand, tandem turnouts, omnibusses,
waggonettes, drags, cabs, in first-class style
Containing a record of important local and other events from an early
period to the present time
the Gentlemen, Clergy and principal inhabitants
the finest show of teetotallers ever seen in Todmorden [took part] in
the Union's procession [when] between 5,000 and 6,000 persons were
present
By Industry, we Prosper
as a token of respect for his valuable services as secretary for more
than 20 years
