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Wainhouse Tower Jubilee, Halifax - DPC00138
The Jubilee Illumination of Wainhouse Tower, May 1935
Abbott's Homes, Halifax - DPC00137
Just a short distance from Halifax’s busy town centre sits John Abbotts Ladies Home, the complex of Grade II listed buildings set around landscaped gardens at Skircoat Green Road is part of the Almshouses Association. There are 14 properties in all…
Lady Firth Hut, Halifax - DPC00113
The original part of the complex we now know as Calderdale Royal Hospital at Skircoat, Halifax, was opened in 1901 as the Halifax Union Workhouse Infirmary, or Poor Law Hospital, but soon became a general hospital, St Luke’s. During the First World…
VE Day June 18th 1945 - DPC00509
The massed crowds on this fantastic images are here for a presentation of the Freedom of the Borough. Presumably it was presented to Pte R Burton, the Duke of Wellington (whose regiment many of the local men who joined the army will have entered) is…
- DPC00511
The massed crowds on this fantastic images are here for a presentation of the Freedom of the Borough. Presumably it was presented to Pte R Burton, the Duke of Wellington (whose regiment many of the local men who joined the army will have entered) is…
VE Day June 18th 1945 - DPC00513
Unmistakable joy in this evocative picture. Double summertime during the war meant that there was still daylight at 10pm. The electrical store of Fred Moores was in the town for very many years until the 1990s. This street is now pedestrianised.
VE Day June 18th 1945 - DPC00517
The title of this picture explains what is happening here. What a wonderful picture of how 'The Dukes' were appreciated by the large number of townspeople, who were on rooftops (on the left) and hanging out of the windows in the building on the…
The declaration of VE Day 8th June 1945 - DPC00519
The townspeople looking very serious as they massed at the Town Hall to hear the declaration of VE Day. Presumably their expressions were of joy moments later when the impact of the news had been absorbed. The street scene is little changed today…
Royal Visit 1937 - DPC00521
The King and Queen visit the town in 1937 shown at Shibden Hall.
Royal Visit 1937 - DPC00523
Another shot of the royal couple at Shibden Hall in October 1937.
Royal Visit 1937 - DPC00525
Another shot of the royal couple at Shibden Hall in October 1937. Lord Harewood behind Alderman Hodgson.
Halifax tram - DPC00383
One of the trams of the town heading towards the Old Station. A prominent advertisement for the building society. Halifax Corporation Tramways were in operation from June 1898 until February 1939.
