Browse Items (73 total)
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Piece Hall, Halifax - HLS01254
The Halifax manufacturers’ Hall was opened on Jan 2, 1779 for the use of the textile manufacturers of the district. It has been declared that as a…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Piece Hall, Sketch
Peel House, Warley - HLS01296
In Warley Township but more intimately associated with the Luddenden valley, for it lies to the right of the steep, long road between Mount Tabor and…
Tags: 1910s, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Peel House, Sketch, Warley
Old Town Hall, Old Town - HLS01293
Old Town is the ancient village on Wadsworth hillside above Hebden Bridge. The hall is at the south west corner of the village green and at the extreme…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Old Town, Old Town Hall, Sketch
Old Sunnybank, Greetland - HLS01333
Old Sunnybank, as it is now known, has given its name to quite an area of the Greetland hillside facing across the…
Old Haugh End, Sowerby - HLS01283
A 17th century building, with additions of a later period which have destroyed the old arrangement considerably. It is a good example of the evolution of…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Old Haugh End, Sketch, Sowerby
Old Cragg Hall, Mytholmroyd - HLS01272
The history of the original homestead is not available. Towards the close of the thirties, Mr Christopher Rawson obtained possession and as the structure…
Nutclough Works, Hebden Bridge - HLS01323
Looking at the now disused Nutclough Works at Hebden Bridge, it is hard to imagine the grey stone walls once enclosed an…
Northowram Parish Church - HLS01329
Soon after Northowram had become a legally constituted ecclesiastical parish in 1909, steps were taken towards…
Norland Lower Hall - HLS01274
This hall overlooks Sowerby Bridge at the extremity of the straggling village of Norland. Like Norland Hall and Norland Upper Hall this homestead was…
Norland Hall - HLS01273
The hall occupies – or rather occupied – a prominent site on the spur of the hill overlooking Sterne Bridge. In the summer of 1912 lightning struck the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Norland, Norland Hall, Sketch
New Road, Mytholmroyd - HLS01331
There is no better example of Mytholmroyd
New Hall, Elland - HLS01250
The hall stands on the hillside between the Upper and Lower Edges. It is one of the domestic buildings of the 14th century and in all probability was…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Elland, Halifax Courier Ltd., New Hall, Sketch
Mytholmroyd Farm - HLS01269
Originally known as simply ‘Mytholmroyd’ and said to have given its name to the village. In a will dated 1549 Richard Draper of ‘Michomroode’ is referred…
Kershaw House, Midgley - HLS01268
From the point of view of preservation it is one of the finest local old buildings. Almost square, it is adorned by eleven stone-pinnacled gables and two…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Kershaw House, Midgley, Sketch
Jagger Green Hall, Stainland - HLS01291
This hall, standing on the hillside above Holywell Green and approached by road from Holywell Brook, is now divided into a farmhouse and three cottages. …
Howroyde Hall, Barkisland - HLS01249
Howroyde, with its ivy-clad walls, rookery, fish pond and glorious prospect of hill and dale, is deeply impressed with old-world characteristics. It was…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Barkisland, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Howroyde Hall, Sketch
Hope Hall, Halifax - HLS01255
Hope Hall (Hope House originally) is thought to have been built some 160 years ago by David Stansfield (1719-1769). In its earlier days it was a…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Hope Hall, Sketch
Holdsworth House, Holmfield - HLS01263
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…
Highley Hall Farm, Clifton - HLS01332
Now listed by the National Trust, this building bears the date 1632. Formerly known as Highley Hall, it is now much…
Tags: Architecture, Clifton, Drawing, Farm, Farm house, Farmhouse, Farms, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Highley Hall Farm, Sketch
High Sunderland, Halifax - HLS01261
A unique building, crumbling to pieces; but for unsightly buttresses some of the walls would fall; the pillars and figures on the south porch are…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., High Sunderland, Sketch
High Bentley, Shelf - HLS01280
The history of the Shelf Bentleys has been traced back to the 13th century. This homestead has on its doorway the date and lettering ‘RWL, 1661’, the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., High Bentley, Shelf, Sketch
Heptonstall Old Church - HLS01334
Destroyed by a storm in 1847, the ruins of the Church of St Thomas a Becket at Heptonstall strangely hold the same aura…
Hebden Bridge Mill - HLS01482
Tags: Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hebden Bridge, Mill, Mills, Sketch
Hebden Bridge - HLS01336
Architect Ian Nairn described the famous top-and
Hazlehurst Hall, Ambler Thorn, Queensbury
Near Hill House lane. It as a fine old homestead, charming in its appearance of antiquity and beautifully situated. Small leaded windows are set in its…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Hazlehurst Hall, Queensbury, Sketch