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It had been raining for two days, 100mm falling that Friday alone. At about 7.00 pm we heard the flood warning siren in Hebden Bridge a couple of miles away, and then the local one sounded. The River Calder had been running high for a couple of days. Over the next few hours what at first seemed just a trickle of water along the road at Mytholmroyd turned into a fast torrent with people up to their waists in water. By Saturday morning the water had gone, leaving a filthy sewage mixed mess everwhere, shops and homes ruined and the long unpleasant task of clearing up.
Oldham Ramblers Walk starting at Mytholmroyd - January 2011.
Taken with a Fuji Real 3d W1 digital stereoscopic camera.
The overnight rainfall swells the River Calder. Taken from the cab of 248 on my way back to Halifax.
Valley of Lights Festival Mytholmroyd
A selection of photos from Valley of Lights Mytholmroyd - full galleries at bluplanetphoto.co.uk/valleyoflights2012
Rochdale Canal, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
Canal & River Trust.
Hebden Bridge 1¼
Mytholmroyd ¼
The Rochdale Canal runs for 33 miles between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge. In Sowerby Bridge it connects with the Calder and Hebble Navigation. In Manchester it connects with the Ashton and Bridgewater Canals.
The canal opened through to Manchester in 1804. This made it the first trans-Pennine canal route. It remained profitable for some time but by the 20th century the tonnage being carried was in sharp decline. In 1937 the last boat made the through journey across the Pennines on the Rochdale Canal.
In 1952, the canal was closed apart from the short section between Castlefield and the Ashton Canal junction at Piccadilly. The Ashton was abandoned in 1962 and by 1965 the nine locks on the Rochdale through Manchester city centre were almost unusable. Enthusiastic supporters re-opened the Ashton in 1974 and the Rochdale Canal in Manchester was made good.
The Rochdale Canal Society was formed to promote the restoration of the canal and in the 1980s and 1990s small scale work began to re-open stretches of the canal between Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge. This involved restoring bridges and locks to navigable condition.
The most major project was the construction of the new Tuel Lane lock and tunnel in Sowerby Bridge. The lock replaced two locks in an infilled section and, with a fall of almost 20 feet, is the deepest lock on the inland waterways system. In 1996 the canal was opened to navigation once again between Sowerby Bridge and the summit level.
The canal was re-opened to navigation along its entire length in July 2002 and forms part of the South Pennine Ring.
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I took this photo on Thursday 7th October 2021, in Mytholmroyd. This is at Bridge End, Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd.
An unusual subject for a panorama (made up of 5 shots in total) this container from a truck lies abandoned on the cycle track between Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. The combination of the overgrown and peeling paintwork is just so appealing!
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On Saturday 5th May 2014, in comemoration of three months until the start of the Tour de France in yorkshire, 18 cylists towed a grand piano six miles up Cragg Vale from Mytholmroyd to Blackstone Edge whilst fifteen local virtuoso pianists took turns playing a specially composed piece.
Watch film at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBTnZ8UGYaM
Rochdale Canal, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
Red Acre Bridge No 12, c1800.
Grade ll listed.
The Rochdale Canal runs for 33 miles between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge. In Sowerby Bridge it connects with the Calder and Hebble Navigation. In Manchester it connects with the Ashton and Bridgewater Canals.
The canal opened through to Manchester in 1804. This made it the first trans-Pennine canal route. It remained profitable for some time but by the 20th century the tonnage being carried was in sharp decline. In 1937 the last boat made the through journey across the Pennines on the Rochdale Canal.
In 1952, the canal was closed apart from the short section between Castlefield and the Ashton Canal junction at Piccadilly. The Ashton was abandoned in 1962 and by 1965 the nine locks on the Rochdale through Manchester city centre were almost unusable. Enthusiastic supporters re-opened the Ashton in 1974 and the Rochdale Canal in Manchester was made good.
The Rochdale Canal Society was formed to promote the restoration of the canal and in the 1980s and 1990s small scale work began to re-open stretches of the canal between Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge. This involved restoring bridges and locks to navigable condition.
The most major project was the construction of the new Tuel Lane lock and tunnel in Sowerby Bridge. The lock replaced two locks in an infilled section and, with a fall of almost 20 feet, is the deepest lock on the inland waterways system. In 1996 the canal was opened to navigation once again between Sowerby Bridge and the summit level.
The canal was re-opened to navigation along its entire length in July 2002 and forms part of the South Pennine Ring.