Stoodley Pike refers to a 1400 feet (400m) hill although it is better known for its 121feet (37m) monument which was designed by local architect James Green and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War.
Looking down the valley in the Todmorden direction. The tall chimney of the former Calder Mill is in the centre. The Halifax Wireform Company were based in the mill premises until they were forced out by yet another flooding in (2015). In 2018…
The provision of public water supplies for the Halifax district was of great concern in the second half of the 19th century. As the town grew and the population increased the Victoria Reservoir created in 1848 in Gibbet Lane proved inadequate to the…
Machpelah Works (the building next to the barge) was owned by Trevor Smith, it was offices and workshops until the upper floors were converted into flats in (20??). Trevor Smith’s company, TT Surveys, which was concerned with marine seismic survey…