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Abraham Ormerod Centre, Todmorden - RDA00168
The Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre was a gift to the town from a local family with textile mills in the area. The Clinic built on the site of their Ridgefoot Mill was opened on 23 July 1938 by the Princess Royal. It closed in 1992 and was later…
Aerial view over Southern Halifax, 1977 - CBC06040
Aerial view of Halifax. Left of centre is Halifax General Hospital.
Fielden Hospital, Lee-Bottom, Todmorden - RDA00148
The Fielden Hospital, Stoodley Grange, was built as an isolation hospital then, reopened as a children's hospital before becoming a hospital for mentally handicapped patients in connection with nearby Stansfield View Hospital. Now converted to…
Halifax General Hospital - MCH00276
During construction August 1999.
Halifax General Hospital - MCH00277
During construction August 1999.
Halifax General Hospital - MCH00278
During construction August 1999.
Halifax General Hospital - MCH00279
During construction August 1999.
Halifax General Hospital - MCH00280
During construction August 1999.
Lady Firth Hut, Halifax - DPC00113
The original part of the complex we now know as Calderdale Royal Hospital at Skircoat, Halifax, was opened in 1901 as the Halifax Union Workhouse Infirmary, or Poor Law Hospital, but soon became a general hospital, St Luke’s. During the First World…
Outside Centre Vale Mansion, Todmorden - TAS01414
The house was used as a hospital during both World Wars. Here we see WW1 wounded soldiers with Dr Thorp. Later the building was a museum, and was demolished in the 1950s.
Royal Halifax Infirmary- DPC00109
The infirmary's building in Free School Lane, Halifax, was opened on 28 April 1896 by the Duke and Duchess of York (the future George V and Queen Mary), who also opened the town's Borough Market that day. It is said that Queen Victoria had given…
Sourhall Hospital, Todmorden. - RDA00266
Originally Peel Mill it was converted into an isolation, or fever, hospital in 1875 following a smallpox epidemic in Todmorden in which 32 people died. It closed after the Second World War.
St Luke's Hospital, Halifax, 1900s - MCH00230
St Luke’s Hospital was built around 1897 as the Poor Law Union infirmary for the sick poor in Halifax. During World War I it became a military hospital. After the abolition of the Poor Laws in the 1920s the hospital was eventually transferred to the…
Stansfield View, Todmorden. - RDA00283
Built in the late 1870s as Todmorden's Workhouse but after 1948 it became a hospital for the mentally handicapped. The building was demolished in 1996.
