People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.
People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.
People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.
People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.
On a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway, part of the original medieval causeway…
Threatened with closure and redevelopment as housing, the local community raised funds to try to buy the property (The Merry Men), bought by a local farmer and wife who after a difficult period ended up becoming the landlord himself. Centre of much…