The centenary of John Crossley & Sons, now a firm of 4,000 employees and 30 mills, warehouses, sheds and dyehouses. The business was so integral to life hereabouts that a local parody of Auld Lang Syne observed ‘John Crossley came from Luddenden one hundred years ago, but little dreamt John Crossley then of the site that you now show.’
*Picture – Aerial view of Dean Clough