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Advertisement for Barker's cycle works - MOT00329
This advertisement accompanies photographs for Barker's cycle works at Millwood, 1902. In 1909 the Barker family moved to Bolton and set up a business selling and repairing motor cars.
Stone Staircase, Newburgh Priory - HLS05950
Slide 23 - Having viewed the principal rooms on the ground floor, we will ascend what is called 'the Stone Staircase' to the first floor. The walls are partially hung with old tapestry.
Technical Education - MOT00372
Cotton Spinning. Syllabus. First Year's Course
Technical Education - MOT00373
Todmorden Technical School - part of dressmaking room
Technical Education - MOT00374
Todmorden Technical Institute - part of spinning room
The Kitchen Newburgh Priory - HLS05949
Slide 22 -The kitchen in which many a succulent monastic dinner has been cooked still remains almost perfect. On one side is an open fire-place, over which hangs on iron brackets and old time smoke-jack or spit.
The ancient windows illuminate an…
The ancient windows illuminate an…
The Library, Newburgh Priory - HLS05952
Slide 25 - The Library, which we now enter, is a fine apartment with a domed ceiling at one end. The bookshelves are filled with an enchanting collection of olden literature, many of the volumes having come down from the Belsayse's days.
The books…
The books…
A Canal Boat at Waterside, 1904. - MOT00126
A canal boat off-loading stone at the corporation yard at Waterside, 1904.
With the use of water power, the output of cloth increased. This increase in trade saw the opening up of the valleys and the construction of Turn Pike Roads, with their…
With the use of water power, the output of cloth increased. This increase in trade saw the opening up of the valleys and the construction of Turn Pike Roads, with their…
A young Alice Longstaff in a school play - ALC06252
Possibly Aladdin judging by the wonderful costumes. The actors are: Alice Speak (Longstaff), Clement Rawsthorn, Alice Horsfall (later mother of Bernard Ingham), Willie Rawsthorn, either Phyllis (sister of Clement and Willie) or Alice Rawsthorn, Lily…
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…
Acre Mill, c1900 - ALC08010
Acre Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge
After Work - MOT00382
Members of the Shore Working Mens Club, Cornholme, which was opened in January 1908.
After Work : Roomfield Baptist Chapel - MOT00383
A typical Sunday Service at Roomfield Baptist Chapel in the early 1900s.
In the late 19th Century every Chapel and Sunday School had its library, Mutual Improvement Society, Debating Society, lectures and Musical Events. All social events and…
In the late 19th Century every Chapel and Sunday School had its library, Mutual Improvement Society, Debating Society, lectures and Musical Events. All social events and…
Akroyd Park Mansion, Halifax - DPC00148
The mansion, a Grade 11 listed building, was sold by Colonel Akroyd to Halifax Corporation in 1887. It now forms Bankfield branch library and museum.
Archbishop Tillotson
Slide 3 - A fine marble monument to Archbishop Tillotson
Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292
Several Todmorden firms produced or maintained the machinery used in the cotton factories. Lord Bros. produced textile machinery, often building looms to their own specification. Jeremiah Jackson was also in the machine trade as textile engineers,…
Baldersdale - HLS00364
One of the engines used in the construction of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs. This picture is believed to have been taken in 1903 at the halt below Heptonstall Slack.
Band of Hope Demonstration - MOT00466
The Demonstration of the Band of Hope Union c.1908. Most of the chapels took part in this annual parade in July. The photograph shows the procession leaving Hazlewood Street.
Barker's Cycle works - MOT00333
General Stock Room. Publicity photograph for Barker's Cycle Works, also known as Phoenix Cycle Works, at Millwood in 1902. In 1909 the Barker family moved to Bolton and set up a business selling and repairing motor cars.
The Phoenix Cycle Works,…
The Phoenix Cycle Works,…
Barker's Cycle Works - MOT00334
Repairs Department. Publicity photograph for Barker's Cycle Works, also known as Phoenix Cycle Works, at Millwood, 1902. In 1909 the Barker family moved to Bolton and set up a business selling and repairing motor cars.
The Phoenix Cycle Works,…
The Phoenix Cycle Works,…
Barkisland Hall - HLS05702
Slide 1 - This Hall stands about midway between the villages of Ripponden and Stainland and is unique in the Parish of Halifax, in that it has three floors, and its porch is carried up to the height of the building.
Barkisland Hall, the Entrance Porch - HLS05703
Slide 2 - Barkisland Hall belongs to the style of architecture fashionable in the days of the unfortunate Charles, and is a fine example of the period. It is a three storied, three gabled building, and consisted originally of a centre 'House Body',…
Birchliffe Chapel, Hebden Bridge - HLS01182
From a booklet entitled 'Views of Hebden Bridge & District', undated but believed to be around 1900. This picture shows a very new looking Birchcliffe Baptist Chapel, it opened in 1898. PH86.
Blake Dean - ALC09017
Graining Water and Alcomden Water meet to become Hebden Beck, or Hebden Water, shown here. The Widdop Road is on the left of the picture and the building in the bend of the road is Blake Dean Chapel. Probably taken around 1900 before the…