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LYRS 4910 - Halifax Goods Yard Signal Box (front & non-door gable). Centre right is the high level Station Approach bridge. Goods facilities were gradually withdrawn during the '60s and '70s and fully by 1981. The tracks and Box were dismantled and…

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LYRS 4913 - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box (door gable only) and general view eastwards towards Halifax station. Beyond the Box one of the L&YR goods sheds near the site of the early Shaw Syke Station. The goods depot was finally closed in 1981 and the…

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LYRS 2699 - Halifax had three L&YR goods sheds on two sites at Shaw Syke, two demolished and the third in a dire and near derelict condition for all that it is Grade ll Listed. Unfortunately it's not clear which this one is but most likely one of the…

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LYRS2700. Date unknown but probably about 1970. The connections to the GNR platforms to the station front have gone as has the Platform 3 line to the rear but the track to North Bridge is still there. The only railway activity today centres on the…

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LYRS 3831b - General view of station, unusual signal box and goods yard looking south. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880 and closed to them in 1955 when the Queensbury…

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LYRS 4266 - 1930. General view of station platforms and canopies and the unusual signal box looking south with the goods yard beyond. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880…

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LYRS 2317 - John Crossley & Sons No 42 - part of 7-plank wagon in the private siding at North Bridge. The sidings have gone and the vast Dean Clough complex no longer manufactures carpets but is now in mixed commercial usage. longer

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LYRS 3572 - Wheatley Viaduct, tunnel & goods yard in a panoramic view. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known as St Pauls on Parkinson Lane near King…

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LYRS 3462n - C.1927. Halifax St Paul's Coal Depot - general view of depot including track, wagons and buildings. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known…

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Dissent and nonconformity, which alongside the established church formed an essential feature of the social and cultural fabric of Calderdale from the 17th century, came to make its mark on an increasingly urbanised landscape during the late 18th…

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Ref 086251 This was built as the Brunswick United Methodist Free Chapel. The chapel was closed in 1937 and the building was then used for industrial purposes until its closure. It has since been demolished and the site is occupied by social…

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This was built as the Brunswick United Methodist Free Chapel. The chapel was closed in 1937 and the building was then used for industrial purposes until its closure. It has since been demolished and the site is occupied by social housing. Ref…

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Ref 086251 This was built as the Brunswick United Methodist Free Chapel. The chapel was closed in 1937 and the building was then used for industrial purposes until its closure. It has since been demolished and the site is occupied by social…

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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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This building is now a pub named Long Can Hall.

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This building was constructed in the 1850s as a home for Sir Francis Crossley (owner of the carpet manufacturers) and was converted into the towns main library in 1899. It served in this capacity until the current library was opened in 1983. By a…
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