Helmshore is a village in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England, south of Haslingden between the A56 and the B6235, 16 miles north of Manchester. The population at the 2011 census was 5,805. The
The former White Horse public house (now private housing)
A spinning room in the Helmshore Mills Textile Museum.
Helmshore Signal Box. Rebuilt as private housing by Alan Dunn in 1990
Helmshore railway station in 1970, looking west along Helmshore Road with the signal box (left)
Christopher Aspin was an English author, historian, and journalist. Among his published works are a biography of James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, and The First Industrial Society: Soc