In June 1930, a local cloudburst caused flooding that killed one man and destroyed equipment at the mills, one of which never reopened.

[3] Kinderlee Mill made yarn thread and baut (string) and was owned by J. H. Ratcliffe, who later sold it to the Rowbottoms.

[4] In 1930 it was damaged by a flood and the mill went bankrupt during the slump and was sold to Jacksons of Bradford, who used it to weave belting.

[4] The Alma Coal Pit was at the junction of Sandy and Sanders Lane; the loading bay was at the wide paved part of the road and a small brick building opposite was the weighing machine box.

There were opencast workings at Mount View, documented in a book Ludworth Moor Colliery by Geoffrey du Feu and Roderick Thackray.