The end of an era at Stacksteads, Lancashire
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The end of an era at Stacksteads, Lancashire
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 15 Apr 1976
The icy winds of change had begun to blow through Lancashire's Rossendale Valley long before this 1976 photograph was taken. The derelict trackbed of the railway can be seen, right foreground, its metals long removed, courtesy of Beeching. Almost all the industrial buildings in the picture are disused or derelict, the post-war textile boom already over.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.690434
Longitude
-2.2368