Browse Items (105 total)
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Todmorden Hall - HLS01292
Once in a secluded situation and surrounded by woods, but now hedged in by buildings and the railway. The hall itself has been scheduled in the 1913 L & Y…
Old Town Hall, Old Town - HLS01293
Old Town is the ancient village on Wadsworth hillside above Hebden Bridge. The hall is at the south west corner of the village green and at the extreme…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Old Town, Old Town Hall, Sketch
Great Burlees, Wadsworth - HLS01294
In past years the home was solely occupied by a wealthy and influential clothier or yeoman, but today the building is split up into a farmhouse and a number…
Tags: 1910s, Buildings, Drawing, Great Burlees, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Wadsworth
Warley House - HLS01295
A handsome structure which, occupied for the most part by men of culture and substance, has changed little since it was built. It was erected in 1769, the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Warley, Warley House
Peel House, Warley - HLS01296
In Warley Township but more intimately associated with the Luddenden valley, for it lies to the right of the steep, long road between Mount Tabor and…
Tags: 1910s, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Peel House, Sketch, Warley
The Hollins, Warley - HLS01297
A castle-like building with a fine Norman tower. It is known that there have been three buildings on the site; the present one was erected short of…
Tags: 1910s, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, The Hollins, Warley
Nutclough Works, Hebden Bridge - HLS01323
Looking at the now disused Nutclough Works at Hebden Bridge, it is hard to imagine the grey stone walls once enclosed an…
Ainley Top Bridge - HLS01324
The way into Elland over Ainley Top runs through the massive arch of the Whitehaughs Bridge which carries the six lanes…
Tags: Ainleys, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., M62, Sketch, Street Names, Whitehaughs
Elim Church, Halifax - HLS01325
The Elim church in Hall Street, Halifax which succeeded the former building in Bond Street incorporates many striking…
Sundial House, Clifton - HLS01326
Set in one of the walls of the cottage 115 Towngate, Clifton is a sundial which bears the date 1783 and the inscription…
Todmorden Town Hall - HLS01327
Fielden
Tags: Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Todmorden, Town Hall
Britannia Buildings, Elland - HLS01328
Outrageously presumptuous by today
Northowram Parish Church - HLS01329
Soon after Northowram had become a legally constituted ecclesiastical parish in 1909, steps were taken towards…
Southgate Precinct, Halifax
Moves to establish a pedestrian precinct in Southgate, Halifax, were made in March 1972 when the Highways Committee…
Tags: Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Southgate
New Road, Mytholmroyd - HLS01331
There is no better example of Mytholmroyd
Highley Hall Farm, Clifton - HLS01332
Now listed by the National Trust, this building bears the date 1632. Formerly known as Highley Hall, it is now much…
Tags: Architecture, Clifton, Drawing, Farm, Farm house, Farmhouse, Farms, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Highley Hall Farm, Sketch
Old Sunnybank, Greetland - HLS01333
Old Sunnybank, as it is now known, has given its name to quite an area of the Greetland hillside facing across the…
Heptonstall Old Church - HLS01334
Destroyed by a storm in 1847, the ruins of the Church of St Thomas a Becket at Heptonstall strangely hold the same aura…
St Bartholomew's Church, Ripponden - HLS01335
There have been four church buildings near the River Ryburn in the long history of Ripponden. The present spired…
Hebden Bridge - HLS01336
Architect Ian Nairn described the famous top-and
St Peter's Church, Sowerby - HLS01337
The present St Peter
Elland Town Hall - HLS01338
Though a personification of Victorian solidity and respectability worthy of accommodating the most…
Tags: Architecture, Drawing, Elland, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Town Hall
Todmorden Railway Viaduct - HLS01339
One of the most impressive structures built for the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company in the late 1830s on the route…
Tags: Architecture, Drawing, Sketch, Todmorden, Viaduct
Branch Road Inn, Greetland - HLS01340
Ale has been drunk for centuries in some of the ancient moorland and country inns round Elland and although the age of…
Ryding's Park, Brighouse - HLS01341
The Rydings (original name of the building) was built in 1821 as a mansion for Mr John Brooke who was in…