Todmorden as Construction Dump

Here's an interesting view of the Todmorden site. On the hill in the backbround, it looks like  landfilling continues, but the Taylor mansion, Bellehaven, still stands overlooking its domain.  In the valley, the cottage has a new stone terrace out front, and smoke rises from the factory stovepipe and Helliwell house's south chimney. Are those remnants of a building foundation in the ground below the Cottage? The horse trough is still in the centre of the yard.


Todmorden in Feb. 1954, TRL collection