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  • Collection: CMBC Conservation and Planning collection

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06092.jpg
Many of the buildings have now gone but the Railway Hotel and the white building (still in use as a cafe) are still there. CMBC Ref 079273

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06144.jpg
This is on Northgate, just before North Bridge, where the traffic lights are now, across from the end of North Bridge Street. The road that the van and car are heading towards is Cross Hills

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06124.jpg
This scene is almost unrecognisable from the Northgate of today as many of the buildings have since been demolished. The church building on the right appears to be Northgate End Chapel, built in 1871 and demolished in 1982.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06172.jpg
This is a view of the North end of Market Street and the top of Gaol Lane. The same view in 2015 would show the library and council buildings.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06181.jpg
The church building is Northgate End Chapel. This area was redeveloped in the early 1980s and is now part of the bus station.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06164.jpg
Probably late 1950s, early 1960s, prior to demolition.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06017.jpg
North Bridge Area from Crib Lane Flats 1978. Part of Dean Clough Mill can be seen on the left, as can All Soul's, Haley Hill.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06018.jpg
Clearly visible is the Dean Clough Mill (where the words Crossley Kosset are visible). The bus appears to be a 681, a service to Bradford that still runs today (2017).

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06218.jpg
This view would have been taken somewhere close to North Bridge and shows the power station and other industrial buildings in the bottom end of town. Very few of the buildilngs in this picture still survive. The cooling towers were demolished in…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06185.jpg
A view of Broad Street, just below the Town Hall which is just visible extreme right. April 1979

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06074.jpg
This building has seen various uses. It was originally built for the Halifax Mechanics Institute in 1856. At various times it has housed the Halifax School of Art, the first Halifax branch of the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Halifax's first cinema, known…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06187.jpg
The junction of Lower Kirkgate and Berry Lane, Halifax. Mackintosh's factory is in the background, the chimney is still there. The coal shoots were just off the picture to the right.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06065.jpg
This building is now a pub named Long Can Hall.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CBC06055.jpg
This building was originally built in 1895 for the Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Company Ltd (aka The Union Bank). After merging with the Halifax Joint Stock Bank in 1910 it was amalgamated with Lloyds in 1919.
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