IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 2AG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to HX6 2AG by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (321 Images Found)
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Distance
1
The Moorings
On the Calder and Hebble Navigation Basin, original Georgian warehousing
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 22 Jul 2020
0.00 miles
2
Canal basin and warehouses, Sowerby Bridge
The Calder & Hebble Navigation Company basin and warehouses. The building in the background is the Grade II Listed No. 2 Warehouse also known as 'The Moorings and Sowerby Marine Ltd'. Built for the company probably 1770.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 May 2023
0.00 miles
3
Bottom end of Bolton Brow, Sowerby Bridge
The lodge on the right is at the entrance to the canal wharf. It was the porter's lodge and was built in 1837. On the left, the first shop has a nice row of arched windows on the first floor. In contrast the Working Men's Club further up has a formidable expanse of blank wall.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 2 Jul 2006
0.02 miles
4
The Java and The Village Restaurants, Sowerby Bridge
This large 19C pub now contains two restaurants, and the old pub name has been lost.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 2 Jul 2006
0.02 miles
5
Buildings between Bolton Brow and the canal wharf, Sowerby Bridge
These buildings front onto the main road two storeys above the basement doors at wharf level. On the left is the wharf superintendent's house. Next the Methodist Sunday School, and then the former chapel in process of conversion to (probably) apartments. The basement rooms of this were used for stabling etc for the canal wharf. On the right is the oldest surviving warehouse, No.4 built in 1778.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 2 Jul 2006
0.02 miles
6
Weighbridge Office and No.2 Warehouse, Sowerby Bridge
The warehouse is now a restaurant and apartments.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 2 Jul 2006
0.02 miles
7
Public Garden off Bolton Brow, Sowerby Bridge
A well-kept green oasis at the foot of Lower Clifton Street.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 5 Mar 2009
0.02 miles
8
Bottom of Bolton Brow, Sowerby Bridge
The building with the arched windows bears the Bolton Brow nameplate.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 5 Mar 2009
0.02 miles
9
Buildings next to the quay, Sowerby Bridge
These are the backs of buildings along Bolton Brow, the A58, at a higher level. The nearer building is Calder House, listed Grade II, no. 1134548 It was built in 1779 as an agent or manager's house and offices, for the Rochdale Canal Company. The second building is a former Sunday School, listed Grade II, no. 1267920, built 1882-83, and the third the former Methodist chapel and canal warehouse, listed Grade II, no. 1366168. The chapel was built in 1831, and canal warehouse of four storeys made later underneath soon after 1840.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 3 Jul 2017
0.03 miles
10
Lock No 1, Rochdale Canal, Sowerby Bridge
Behind the photographer is the Calder and Hebble Canal. The lock shown is restored but was not then yet in use as the Tuel Lane blockage still remained.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 26 Aug 1991
0.03 miles