Late medieval timber-framed open hall encased in stone mid C16. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2-storey cross-wing. All windows are chamfered mullioned some retaining cavetto mullions; 3 over 4 mullioned and transomed window with…
Late medieval timber-framed open hall encased in stone mid C16. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2-storey cross-wing. All windows are chamfered mullioned some retaining cavetto mullions; 3 over 4 mullioned and transomed window with…
Derek Pollard, fitter, in the machine shop, June 1998. Note the big planer at the far end. The planer was fitted into an 8 feet (2.5 m) deep pit so that it would clear the overhead crane. Due to the water table level in this area, a water pump had…
Leo Nicol, crane driver, in fitting shop. Leo was not tall enough for the army so he was a Bevan Boy and worked in a coal mine driving an electric narrow gauge railway engine. He then worked t Hebden Bridge gas works, then driving a crane in the…
Looking down towards the canal from beside the Post Office.
Westfield Mill with BCA Leisure is on the left. Broadbent Machine Tools is on the right, this building was originally called Empress Foundry, now Empress Works.
The aisled halls of the Halifax region form a unique group within the north of England. Dating from the 14th century they are evidence of the prosperity of the medieval yeoman clothier who wished to demonstrate his wealth by building a large…
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
Broadbottom, a cluster of houses rather than a single homestead is an ancient settlement on the Wadsworth side of Calder Valley, on the edge of the wood…
Construction of the bridge over the River Calder in 1907. The bridge was opened in 1908 and appeared in the Engineering and Building journal, because it was the one of first pre-cast concrete bridges to be built in this country, as opposed to…
Ted is second row, dark jacket, 5th from right. Donald is 7th from right, wearing spectacles. Ted's sister Olwyn is in the third row down, sixth from the left.