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*Keith Emerson, pianist, Founder / member of The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
*John Fielden (1784-1849), local landowner and national leader of the Ten Hours Campaign for factory reform
* John Cockcroft who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951
* Geoffrey Wilkinson, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973
* Harold Shipman, the serial killer had his first medical practice in Todmorden
* John Helliwell of the band Supertramp
* Wilfred Judson (1902-1980), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* John Kettley, BBC Weatherman
* Chipps Chippendale, mountain biking journalistMusic has always played an important part in the life of Todmordians. John Helliwell of Supertramp, Keith Emerson of The Nice and Emerson, Lake and Palmer were born and raised in Todmorden, as was Geoff Love a generation earlier. More recent artists include Carlospresents of Merry Men, and three groups formed by local constituency:
*Logger and the Lumberjacks
*Peter Daye and the Knights
*The Keys
There has also been wide enjoyment of more traditional musical forms:
* the Todmorden Brass Band
* the Todmorden Orchestra
* the Belvedere Dance Band There is also a thriving amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society and various other cultural Societies.*Todmorden Town Council
*Todmorden town guide
*Sir John Fielden
*Map of Todmorden
*Over a 1000 photographs of Todmorden (at TodChat)
*Todmorden News (Weekly local newspaper)
*Links to many Tod websites
*Todmorden and Walsden History
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