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Graham Shaw Way, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 4RZ

There mills are being converted to apartments. There were also buildings in the foreground.

This photograph overlaps the previous one, but shows the front of the engine-house with its characteristic tall arched window. Two branches of Longwood Brook have been exposed, and perhaps, hopefully, they will be landscaped in a garden.

In a free Classical style, dated 1868.

This former woollen mill complex has been converted to apartments. The chimney is of unusual design and is next to a projecting engine house. The aerial photo now shows the mill block to the right to be 'Quarry Bank Mill' but this name appears to be 'made up'. The references all refer to Parkwood Mills (or New Mill).

Very much a common scene 30 years ago in the Colne Valley but the mills are now silent and being demolished or converted to apartments. The latter fate has befallen this complex although it was still active when I took its picture on a sunny Sunday morning.

Parkwood Mills, Longwood, Huddersfield. Now standing idle and for sale. A prominent reminder of the area's textile past. (Sept 06 - now being converted into apartments).

Grade II Listed Building

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When Huddersfield Corporation replaced the Dod-Lea tram service with trolleybuses, they found that the new vehicles had one disadvantage: Instead of being able to reverse without turning, (as the trams could), the trolleys needed space for the vehicle to turn round. At Dod-Lea space could not be found for this, so the route was slightly shortened to this point at the foot of Dod-Lea lane where a trolleybus turntable was built. The vehicle drove onto the table, which was then pushed round manually by the crew. The trolleybuses took over from 1 September 1939, but the turntable was not in use for long, as after the outbreak of war, (1) women were recruited as conductresses who were not strong enough to help the driver push the turntable round, and (2) blackout regulations meant that the crew could not see what they were doing. So in 1940, other arrangements were made and the turntable fell out of use. It was removed not long after this 1985 photograph was taken. There was only one other trolleybus turntable ever built in Britain, a long way away at Christchurch, Hampshire for Bournemouth Corporation.