Astin & Barker, cast iron canal bridge from 1864, in Rochdale Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK, OL14 7LA
Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292 Several Todmorden firms produced or maintained the machinery used in the cotton factories. Lord Bros. produced textile machinery, often building looms to their own specification. Jeremiah Jackson was also in the machine trade as textile engineers, providing dyeing, finishing, sizing and bleaching machines. Astin & Barker were millwrights producing boilers, flywheels and iron goods in the foundry. The canal bridge of 1864 by Todmorden Library was designed and built by them. A Kinghorn & Co was founded when Arthur Kinghorn broke away from Lord & Kinghorn in 1885. The firm which produced machine tools for the sheet metal industry celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1986. The Walker family over four generations had started as apprentices on the shop floor before moving to executive positions. Here the management of Astin & Barker's stand proudly with their latest production. The photograph is taken outside their premises - once known as "The Barracks" - on Salford, on the morning of 7th July 1906. Later on the wagon was paraded through the town in the Lifeboat Saturday procession. Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is 17 miles (27 kilometres) north-east of Manchester, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Burnley and 9 miles (14 km) west of Halifax. In 2011, it had a population of 15,481. Todmorden is at the confluence of three steep-sided Pennine valleys and is surrounded by moorlands with outcrops of sandblasted gritstone. The historic boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire is the River Calder and its tributary, Walsden Water, which run through the town. The administrative border was altered by the Local Government Act 1888 placing the whole of the town within the West Riding. The town is served by Todmorden and Walsden railway stations.
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Location: 27 Rochdale Rd, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK, OL14 7LA
Photo credit: © Tony Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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