A snowy Longfield with the bus to Halifax waiting. The 'new' Victorian Church is on the left and the tower of the ruined medieval church is to the right.
Hebden Royd U.D. Leeds-Halifax-Preston Trunk Road A646, Caldene Bridge-Bridge Gate Reconstruction Scheme. Improvement at Memorial Gardens, Hebden Bridge. 1951/52 Estimates. The bridge across New Road connected the two parts of Crossley Mill.
Outside the White Lion & Greyhound, Shade.
An early open top bus with external stairs at the rear to the upper deck and solid rubber tyres. Open top buses were not popular in winter and started to be replaced by covered top deck models from the…
Buses found it a tight squeeze trying to navigate the narrow streets of Heptonstall. Attempting a three-point turn in July 1963 is an Albion Nimbus watched by musician John R. Turner, who shortly afterwards left to become organist at Glasgow…
A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.
Halifax Town Hall was designed by famed architect Charles Barry (who also designed the Houses of Parliament) although he died before the building was finished, the work being completed by his son. It was opened in 1863 by the then Prince of Wales,…