A 1980 blue sky white clouds summer day view, looking west from Karens Day, of the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal Basin Marina, with many leisure boats, towards the former Millroyd Mill and now demolished Victoria Mill Complex, Brighouse, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, UK
Millroyd Mill (left mid-distance), dating to 1857, was the first cotton mill in Brighouse. Destroyed by fire 17 February 1874, it was replaced by the 7-storey building seen in the shot. Wool merchant, Hy Cullingworth and Sons Ltd used it until closure in 2001. There were proposals in 2003 to convert the mill into a 134 apartments residential property, to be known as 'Millroyd Island' because of its location between the River Calder and the calder and Hebble Canal. The conversion was completed in 2004. Centre mid-distance stands the Victoria Mill. Richard Kershaw, who built the Woodvale Silk Mills at Thornhill Briggs, Brighouse, in 1877, moved into the silk industry here in 1864. Lumb was a cotton manufacturer at Victoria Mill in mill was badly damaged by fire, 27 July 1905, and again in 1959. The lower storeys continued in use, until demolition in the 1990s for a Sainsbury's supermarket. The name, 'Calder Metal Spinning Company', changing its registered office from Victoria Mill, 13 July 1994, is seen. The tall structure behind Millroyd Mill is one of two silos built 1959-1963 at the Thomas Sugden Flour Mill, bought by Allied Mills in 1962. The flour mill closed in 1997 and is now an ROKT Climbing Gym. Construction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation began in 1759. In November 1764 the canal was open to Brighouse, 16 miles west of Wakefield, where canal joins the 1704 Aire and Calder Navigation. The canal locks, short in length, were wide enough to accommodate horse-drawn, metres (14 feet) wide-beamed boats. The canal in the background heads towards the terminus at Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, reached in 1770. The Wharf Street Footbridge crosses the canal. Brighouse Upper Lock (Number 17 of 27 in the canal's miles length) is visible. Behind the camera, a section of the canal utilises the River Calder. The canal was nationalised in 1948 and most commercial traffic had ceased by 1955.
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Location: Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal Basin, looking west from Karens Way, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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