The inscription reads: Taplin Memorial. Erected in 1920 to replace the memorial erected 1881 near the Twon Hall as a tribute of respect to the Rev Lindsay Taplin. M.A.
The Rev Taplin was an outspoken minister of the Todmorden Unitarian Church from…
This park is next to what is now Bankfield Museum. This grand house was once the residence of Colonel Akroyd, a wealthy mill owner who built houses for his workers nearby in Boothtown and at Copley, near Sowerby Bridge. Postcard dated August 1907.
This park is next to what is now Bankfield Museum. This grand house was once the residence of Colonel Akroyd, a wealthy mill owner who built houses for his workers nearby in Boothtown and at Copley, near Sowerby Bridge. It seems it was a popular…
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.
The mill chimneys and factories of Halifax can be seen in the background of this photograph. The former home of Colonel Akroyd (after whom the park is named), Bankfield House is now owned by Calderdale Council and houses a library, a museum and the…
Probably mid-1960s. On the left the top of the gas holder on Station Road. The boys fishing in the Rochdale Canal with the overgrown canal arm just beyond the bridge; it was converted into the Marina in about 1984. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local…
Bowling green and pavilion and above the trees the gable end of the large Station Warehouse demolished following a fire in 1969. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
This was the home of John Fielden MP who bought the Centre Vale estate in 1842 from local cotton mill owner, Thomas Ramsbottom, who built the original house. The mansion was used as a hospital during the First World War and later opened as a museum.…