Known locally as Sparrow Park, this relatively small patch of grass at the junction of Heath Road and Skircoat Road is dominated by a memorial to Prince Albert, paid for by public subscription following the Prince’s death in December 1861.
This is the main road from Halifax to Huddersfield and there are many fine houses lining it, probably residences of wealthy merchants and mill owners. The Stafford Arms Inn on the left is now an Indian restaurant.
A marketing exercise for the short lived Halifax Zoo. The miserable looking elephant is being used as a sandwich board carrier. The view down this road is very similar today.
The view along this road is little changed today apart from the type and amount, of traffic. The Stafford Arms was until recently still an inn. It is Indian restaurant today. Postcard dated 1938.