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Ref 086251 Brunswick House was originally built as a church but was converted for industrial use when that closed in the 1930s. It has since been demolished and the area used for social housing. It appears to be derelict in this view.

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Ref 086251 Brunswick House was originally built as a church but was converted for industrial use when that closed in the 1930s. It has since been demolished and the area used for social housing.

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The cost of building this impressive structure is quoted on this card as £58,703 in the 1920s. It remains intact today but the public toilets (which became a bar called WC's in the 1980s!) have gone. Most of the area fronting the building is now car…

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One of the main gateways to the town, with the roundabout -although in a different form - still in existence today. The seating area is now occupied by a car park and to the right of the three storey buildings is now a new JD Wetherspoons. The area…

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This view is very similar today except where the seats once were is now car parking. The building on the right no longer exists and the road junction is now a roundabout. The Crown and Anchor pub has had a variety of names over the years and the…

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Original drawing by Alan D. Jones, published by Halifax Courier.

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Free School Lane, opposite Crossley Heath School, the houses on the left are actually addressed Saville Park.

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The mansion has now gone but the fountain in the grounds is still played on occassions.

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The Talbot Hounds Fountain in the courtyard. It is now in Trevelyan Square, off Boar Lane, Leeds.

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Another view of the large amount of work that was done on Charles Street and Winding Road in the 1980s. The multi-storey car park is being constructed on the left.

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The building in the foreground has now gone but the building with Holt on it (which is on Chatham Street itself) is still in existence. The church building is St Mary's Catholic Church on Gibbet Street.

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CLARK BRIDGE crosses the Hebble Brook below Halifax Parish Church. Watson wrote in 1775 that this bridge ‘seems to have been first built by the clergy, or clerks, for the convenience of passing from the church, either to their habitations, or some…
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