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The Moor, Halifax - DPC00637
This scene today is very similar but there are very many more trees and no trams of course. The building top left is Crossley Heath School and the ever present Wainhouse Tower is in the centre of the shot. The smart lady in the trap is accompanied by…
Savile Park, Halifax - DPC00635
The croci spring up very year on this grass verge to this day.
Manor Heath, Halifax - DPC00633
This very pleasant park is a very popular location for local families, there are attractions such as a playground, a cafe and a tropical centre.
Manor Heath, Halifax - DPC00631
The building seen in this photograph is now known as Crossley Heath School, formerly Crossley and Porter Grammar school. Seemingly a games session is in progress. Postcard dated 1950.
Manor Heath, Halifax - DPC00629
This handsome house no longer exists, the spot where it was is now a rose garden in Manor Heath Park. It was once the home of John Crossley, one of the Crossley family who made their fortune from their carpet factory at Dean Clough. They were…
Shibden Park, Halifax - DPC00487
This very popular attraction in the town was once the family home of the Listers, a very influential local family. Anne Lister was a lesbian who kept diaries writtne in a secret code. She lived in the late 18th and early 19th centrury and had a…
Akroyd Park, Halifax - DPC00447
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…
Akroyd Park, Halifax - DPC00445
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.
Fountain at People's Park, Halifax - DPC00437
The group of admirers in this photo look on at the display here. The park was one of the very many philanthropic projects by the wealthy Crossley family who were one of the largest employers in the town at their carpet factory at Dean Clough.
Vintage Weekend, Hebden Bridge - MOS00165
Wheelwright's wagon
West View Park, Halifax - DPC00377
The 3ha park lies immediately south-west of Warley Road and north of Trimmingham Road, north-west of Halifax town centre. The park occupies high ground looking south-west to the Pennines. Laid out on the site of a redundant quarry, the land falls…
West View Park, Halifax - DPC00375
The 3ha park lies immediately south-west of Warley Road and north of Trimmingham Road, north-west of Halifax town centre. The park occupies high ground looking south-west to the Pennines. Laid out on the site of a redundant quarry, the land falls…
All Souls Church and Akroyd park , Halifax - DPC00361
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…
Albert Park, Halifax - DPC00349
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 nine…
The nine…
Akroyd Park, Halifax - DPC00337
The house on the left of this picture was originally the home of Colonel Akroyd, a Halifax industrialist.
People's Park, Halifax - DPC00253
Postcard dated February 1914.
Peoples Park, Halifax - BIM00461
People's Park is one of the finest surviving examples of a "Joseph Paxton" Park. Created in 1857, the Park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Francis Crossley, to be maintained by the then Halifax Corporation for all time.
Situated at the…
Situated at the…