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The Hollins, Warley - HLS01297
PH/28. The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
A castle-like building with a fine Norman tower. It is known that there have been three buildings on the site; the present one was erected short of…
A castle-like building with a fine Norman tower. It is known that there have been three buildings on the site; the present one was erected short of…
Bus Card - TAS00226
Drawing by Dennis O'Neill of Bus No 2, which was first registered in 1913.
Despite this drawing being labelled 1910 the bus was not actually registered until 1913.
Despite this drawing being labelled 1910 the bus was not actually registered until 1913.
Luddenden Village, Calderdale - JNB00553
Postcard dated 1987
Stubbings Infants School, Hebden Bridge - JNB00603
Produced to celebrate the centenary of the school in 1979.
Heptonstall - JNB00662
Postcard dated 1984.
Heptonstall - JNB00666
Postcard dated 1987.
Wood Lane Hall, Copy from Horner - HLS06050
Slide 3 - In 1706 John Dearden, grandson of the John who is supposed to have built the house, having by marriage come into the Hollins Estate, sold Wood Lane, to Jeremy Crossley of Lighthazles for £1100, described as a 'white Kerseyman.'The view of…
Swine Market, Halifax - HLS01403
1969 calendar. Swine Market once looked like this before the Grand Junction Hotel (right) and property on the South side of Gilbert Street was cleared to make way for a widened A58 trunk road. PH15.
Green Hill Terrace, Halifax - HLS01404
PH15. 1969 calendar. Demolished in 1967 it was described as possibly the only complete example in Halifax of a terrace in the Regency style. The Regency influence was confined to the arch over the doorway, though the windows were originally small…
Wainhouse Terrace, Halifax - HLS01405
PH15. 1969 calendar. Not widely known because it is out of general sight between Burnley and Rochdale Roads, past Kings Cross. The galleried houses take their name from J. E. Wainhouse, builder of more famous and certainly more visible Wainhouse…
Stannery Lane, Halifax. - HLS01406
PH15. 1969 calendar. It derives its name from stoneary for once stone was quarried from the hillside here when it was still a hamlet isolated from Halifax.
Boothtown House, Halifax - HLS01407
Seen from Hall Street North, it is an Old Boothtown landmark which was exempted from demolition in the area because of its historical and architectural interest.
Union Mills, Halifax - HLS01408
1969 calendar. Situated on Pellon Lane it is a fine example of the substantial and impressive nature of the portals of many 19th Century industrial premises. Union Mills of S Highley & Company , worsted manufacturers, was largely rebuilt after a…
Earl Street, Halifax - HLS01409
1969 calendar. Claremount, Halifax is a scene typical of the area known as Beaumont Town - 19th century cottage property with setted highway and flagged pavements. At the fall of the slope is St Thomas's School. PH15.
Swaine's Terrace, Halifax - HLS01410
1969 calendar. In the Haugh Shaw district of Halifax it provides another example of the use of the gallery to counteract the building difficulties of sloping land. The extra storey at the lower level of the building gave scope for either cellaring…
Ramsden Street, Halifax - HLS01411
1969 calendar. Wheatley, Halifax shows a particular feature of a West Riding building in the 19th Century, when the handicap of a narrow site on a steeply rising hillside was overcome by putting one house on top of another with access at different…
Waterloo Street, Boothtown, Halifax - HLS01412
1969 calendar. Typical galleried houses and cellar cottages of the hilly West Riding - Waterloo Street, Boothtown as it once was. PH15.
Woolshops, Halifax - HLS01413
1969 calendar. The name is said to be unique - an area of Halifax which has undergone marked change in every generation of the past century. \it is the original location of the warehouses and shops of the wool staplers or wool drivers. PH15.
Range Bank, Halifax - HLS01414
1969 calendar. One of Halifax's steepest gradients looking down towards New Bank and North Bridge . With a slope of over 1 in 5 it was once part of the main road from Halifax to Bradford over Swales Moor. PH15.