IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Spring Bank Industrial Estate, Watson Mill Lane, SOWERBY BRIDGE, HX6 3BW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Spring Bank Industrial Estate, Watson Mill Lane, HX6 3BW 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.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (171 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Sign for Rosehill Polymers, Watson Mill Lane
This image was taken to show the ram's head, which presumably came from a demolished building in Spring Bank Mills.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.03 miles
2
Steep hill sign, Watson Mill Lane
The sign indicates 20% (1 in 5).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 24 Apr 2021
0.04 miles
3
View of Sowerby Bridge from Hullen Edge Farm
Image: © Alexander P Kapp
Taken: 5 Aug 2009
0.05 miles
4
Watson Mill Lane
The eponymous mill was to the left of this photo on this side of the river. To the right is a 33kV substation.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 24 Apr 2021
0.05 miles
5
Road signs, Watson Mill Lane
The blue information sign is the usual sort; I haven't seen the red triangle type used for this purpose before.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.05 miles
6
Aflex Hose, Watson Mill Lane
The factory is built partly on the alignment of the former Sowerby Bridge to Rishworth railway line and partly on the former tenterfield of Watson Mill. Jeffrey Fisher, in his history of the railway published in 1990, describes the factory as "recently erected". The old tunnel portal can just be glimpsed behind the factory, see Image
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 24 Apr 2021
0.06 miles
7
Watson Mill Lane
Wide at first off the main road, but narrowing as it crosses the River Ryburn.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.06 miles
8
River Ryburn downstream from Watson Bridge
The tail race of the former Watson Mill can be seen to the right.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 24 Apr 2021
0.07 miles
9
Shell filling station, Rochdale Road, Sowerby Bridge
E5 grade petrol was 127.9 pence per litre at this time.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 24 Apr 2021
0.08 miles
10
Boundary stone on the A58
This is on the boundary between the original Sowerby Bridge and Sowerby UDCs, before they were amalgamated in 1926. It is perhaps also where the road name changes from West Street to Rochdale Road.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 16 May 2013
0.08 miles