Photographs of Calder Vale, a quaint industrial village in the Forest of Bowland National Landscape of Lancashire.
Lappet Mill, Calder Vale at the edge of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
Lappet Mill was founded as a water-powered cotton mill in 1835 by the Jackson brothers. The mill is no longer powered by the River Calder, but it is still working as a textile mill, one of its main products being the red, black and white checked cloth used for Arab headscarves. It is said that Yasser Arafat's headdresses were made here.
Long Row, Calder Vale in Lancashire.
A row of mill workers' cottages (each with a garden) built by the Jackson Brothers for the workers of Lappet Mill.
Mallard on the mill pond of the 1835 cotton mill, Lappet Mill at Calder Vale on the edge of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.
The mill pond is no longer in use but the mill still operates as a cotton mill.
The old weir on the River Calder for Lappet Mill, Church Woods, Calder Vale, Lancashire.
The 1863 Church of St John at Calder Vale at the edge of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire
The Village Hall at Calder Vale on the edge of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
Red telephone box and post box outside a mill worker's cottage at Calder Vale on the edge of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.