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The Yates Duxbury paper mill on Bury New Road at Heap Bridge, viewed from Heap Brow in 1978. The mill closed in 1981. See http://www.duxbury.plus.com/yd.html for the story of the mill and [[[134876]]] for a view of the mill taken in 2005.
©David Dixon
Yates Duxbury & Sons, http://www.duxbury.plus.com/yd.html paper makers occupied this site on both north and south side of the foot of Prettywood. The red brick building is the former office block on the north side of the Heywood road. Number two mill with two Fourdrinier paper machines and one Yankee was also on the north side of the road. Number one mill on the south side had two paper machines. Both mills were connected by private railway lines and sidings. One of the locos, Annie http://www.pogo.org.uk/railway/9.html from the mills is now to believed to be in service at Embsay. [[99909]]
©Dennis Turner
©Anthony Parkes
Looking downhill.
©David Dixon
View along Bury Road towards Heywood.
©Dennis Turner
Junction of Bury Road and Heap Brow.
©Dennis Turner
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©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.1km<br/>In the centre of the picture is the dismantled railway bridge which carried a branch line to a goods depot off Prettywood and also served the former Yates Duxbury's paper mills private sidings.
©Dennis Turner
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.1km<br/>Half of the church had been converted to a play school/nursery resulting in parts of the church were being used for the storage of toys
©Alexander P Kapp

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