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…
Once the home of Edward Akroyd (owner of the mill at Dean Clough and also MP for Halifax for 10 years) this building was later a library and is now a museum.
Pennine horizons volunteers Frank Woolrych and Ann Kilbey carried out numerous Scan-2-Save events as part of the Pennine Horizons project. They took laptops and scanners out into the community and invited people to bring along their photographs to be…