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This shows the junction where Burnley Road and Rochdale Road meet at King Cross.

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This view is taken from the then new Aachen Way and shows the bottom of Queens Road and its junction with King Cross Street. 1970s.

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The church building is Northgate End Chapel. This area was redeveloped in the early 1980s and is now part of the bus station.

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Congregationalists had held regular meetings in Halifax since at least 1763 and the Square Chapel, named after the area although it is also square in shape, was opened in 1772 at a cost of over £2,000. The chapel was first preached in on 24th May…

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North Bridge Area from Crib Lane Flats 1978. Part of Dean Clough Mill can be seen on the left, as can All Soul's, Haley Hill.

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The new bus station can be seen in the centre with the tower of the town Hall behind, and the retained frontage of the old chapel on the right.

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This is the bottom of Woolshops after all the property had been demolished. The road on the right was called Square (just Square) The area of land to the right had numerous buildings on it and was known as Hatter's Fold. King Street starts where the…

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This scene is almost unrecognisable from the Northgate of today as many of the buildings have since been demolished. The church building on the right appears to be Northgate End Chapel, built in 1871 and demolished in 1982.

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The building in the foreground has now gone but the building with Holt on it (which is on Chatham Street itself) is still in existence. The church building is St Mary's Catholic Church on Gibbet Street.

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Dissent and nonconformity, which alongside the established church formed an essential feature of the social and cultural fabric of Calderdale from the 17th century, came to make its mark on an increasingly urbanised landscape during the late 18th…

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Corn Mill on left. During the war they kept a fire engine inside the mill so that if the bridge was bombed or put out of action they would have an engine on that side of the bridge. Cross Stone church is on the skyline.

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Eureka carpark is in the centre, The Minster, formerly the Parish church is on the right, and Square Chapel and the spire of Square Church and the Piece Hall are on the left.

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During the course of the 18th century Halifax came to occupy a prominent place in West Yorkshire as a cloth market, and the Piece Hall, opened in 1779, is a striking monument to the pre-factory age. ‘Pieces’ or lengths of cloth, handwoven in Pennine…

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Engraving by J Shore c.1855. Looking up from Stubbing Holme where the Colden Water joins the River Calder, the 'mytholm'. Above is Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and above that Eaves Lower and Upper Mills and to the right Bankfoot Mill, now the…

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Mytholmroyd Historical Society visited Halifax Parish Church, now Halifax Minster, 14 July 2006 with leader Geoffrey Washington
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