Browse Items (690 total)
- Date contains "1960s"
Sort by:
Civic Event - EUS00109
L to R: William Shaw, Bernard Shaw, Mayor Eunice Shaw (hidden) Mayor of Halifax Alderman J. Liley, Mayoress of Halifax, Mrs I Liley.
Floral Arrangement at Todmorden Town Hall - EUS00108
The event was the Mayor's Dinner, 23rd May, 1969.
Mayor’s Day Dinner 23rd May 1969 - EUS00107
Mayor Eunice Shaw with Mayor and Mayoress of Halifax. On left husband Bernard Shaw.
Mayor’s Day Dinner 23rd May 1969 - EUS00105
Centre Mayor Eunice Shaw, to her right Mayor and Mayoress of Halifax, Alderman J. Liley and Mrs I Liley
On The Way to the Civic Service - EUS00104
Mayor Eunice Shaw with Canon Harry W. Hodgson on the way to the Mayor's Civic Service at Christ Church, Todmorden, 25th May, 1969.
On The Way to the Civic Service - EUS00103
Mayor Eunice Shaw with Canon Harry W. Hodgson
Mayor Eunice Shaw and Family - EUS00102
Mayor Cllr Eunice Shaw with husband Bernard and her father William Earnshaw.
Mayor Eunice Shaw with the Vicar - EUS00101
Bernard Shaw, Mayor Cllr Eunice Shaw, Rev Canon Harry W. Hodgson, Charles Crossley
Friendly Outing - HCC00241
Donated by Denise Ramsden
Aerial view of Slack - HCC00202
Probably taken in the early 1960s. Slack Baptist Chapel is in the triangle of roads, one leading to Widdop and the other to Colden and Blackshaw. The building on the right of the road almost in the centre of the picture is Robertshaw Farm where…
M62 - TWA00260
The start of the construction of the M62
Soyland Mill Bridge - TWA00259
SOYLAND MILL BRIDGE is at Dam Side over the Lumb Clough stream. It is a single-arch, undated, stone bridge. The following entries appear in the accounts for 1741 of John Normanton, the Sowerby Constable:¬
Paid Matthew Nickolson for Soyland Miln…
Paid Matthew Nickolson for Soyland Miln…
Sowerby Bridge - TWA00258
SOWERBY BRIDGE was the subject of a paper by H. P. Kendall in the 1915 Transactions.
Salterhebble Bridge - TWA00257
In his will dated Feb 1st, 1533, John Waterhouse left twelve pence “to the amendying of Salterhebble.” W.B. Crump wrote that for the present this remains the earliest use of the dialect word “hebble”. In 1637 a fine of £40 was imposed on the…
St George's Bridge, Hebden Bridge - TWA00256
ST. GEORGE'S BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge. was built in 1899, the cost being met by public subscription plus a grant from the West Riding County Council. The bridge had a very steep gradient, and before it was altered a chain horse was needed by loaded…
Ripponden Old Bridge - TWA00255
RIPPONDEN OLD BRIDGE was written about by a former President of the Halifax Antiquairans, the late J. H. Priestley, and his paper appeared in the 1935 Transactions.
Rastrick Bridge, Brighouse - TWA00254
RASTRICK BRIDGE, Brighouse, The Borough of Brighouse derives its name from this ancient bridge. An ancient house or houses stood near the bridge over the Calder between Brighouse and Rastrick. hence the name Brighouse, or Bridge-house, and for a time…
Phoenix Bridge, Brighouse, - TWA00253
This bridge runs parallel to Clifton Bridge and carries King Street over the Clifton Beck. On a stone tablet on the parapet is inscribed "W.R.C.C PHOENIX BRIDGE."
Paris Gate Bridge, Halifax - TWA00252
PARIS GATE BRIDGE. That there was a bridge at Paris Gate over the Hebble is evidenced by the West Riding Quarter Sessions Records. At Pontefract in April, 1794, the surveyor of Skircoat and Southowram having submitted to an indictment a gratuity of…
Oxygrains Bridge, Rishworth - TWA00251
OXYGRAINS BRIDGE, Rishworth, is a single-arch stone pack¬horse bridge without any Parapet, and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Watson wrote that the Ryburn stream "receives a considerable rivulet at the Ox-grains bridge, in the same township…
North Dean Railway Bridge - TWA00250
This bridge was constructed by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, forerunner of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. The railway line was opened on October 5th, 1840, and the bridge must date from that time.
North Bridge, Halifax - TWA00249
NORTH BRIDGE is of cast iron and has two spans each one hundred and sixty feet long. It replaced a stone bridge having six arches which was opened in 1771 which had replaced a wooden pre-decessor. The foundation stone of the present bridge was laid…
New Gate End, Blackstone Edge - TWA00248
NEW GATE END BRIDGE, Blackstone Edge, near Baitings, appears on Ogilby's map of 1675. It carries the Rochdale Road over Knave Holes Clough.
West End Bridge, Hebden Bridge - TWA00247
NEW or WEST END BRIDGE, Hebden Bridge, was built about 1772 and has two arches of stone. It takes the main Lancashire road over the Hebden tributary of the Calder. An entry in the Todmorden Turnpike Trustees' records shows that on July 30th, 1835 the…