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The pediment above the town hall in Todmorden.

One interesting external feature of the town hall is the pediment. The fine carved stonework has two central female figures on a pedestal. The left hand one represents Lancashire (cotton spinning industry) and the right hand one Yorkshire (engineering and agriculture).

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Does this also show the "Sweat Shop" conditions the people worked in?

Interesting artwork, I enjoy the history.

Definately not, they avoided that like the plague, these are like the communist propaganda imagery, striving for the common good. No mention whatever of the almost slave labour conditions that went on in the mills.

Nice job getting it from a difficult angle.  Very sharp and clear and interesting history background.