The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
One of several old homesteads in Shibden valley. Staups dates back well over 300 years, for documentary evidence tells of a John Bentley compounding for…
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
Passing up the main road from Holmfield Station to the district known as Holdsworth, attention is attracted by iron gates at the entrance to the remains…
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
The architecture has unique features and an interesting history attaches to the house. From the latter part of the 13th century the Rysshworth family had…
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.
The late Middle Ages witnessed the growing prosperity of the upper Calder valley as a result of a major expansion of the cloth trade, and this prosperity is reflected in a number of surviving domestic buildings from this period, though the medieval…
The late Middle Ages witnessed the growing prosperity of the upper Calder valley as a result of a major expansion of the cloth trade, and this prosperity is reflected in a number of surviving domestic buildings from this period, though the medieval…