Browse Items (105 total)
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Ainley Top Bridge - HLS01324
The way into Elland over Ainley Top runs through the massive arch of the Whitehaughs Bridge which carries the six lanes…
Tags: Ainleys, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., M62, Sketch, Street Names, Whitehaughs
All Souls Church, Halifax - HLS01400
Asquith Bottom House, Sowerby Bridge - HLS01287
The long, rambling and oddly-shaped old building occupies a somewhat obscure site directly beneath St George’s Church at Quarry Hill. No connected story…
Backhall, Siddal - HLS01257
The house was built in 1668 by Thomas Hanson upon the site of an ancient homestead that existed in the 13th century. The structure is in excellent…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Backhall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Siddal, Sketch
Barkisland Hall - HLS01248
Tags: Architecture, Barkisland, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch
Bentley Royd, Sowerby - HLS01286
Formerly approached through a dignified gateway, now demolished. The property, now divided into six cottages, has over its old doorway the initials of…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Bentley Royd, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Sowerby
Binroyd, Norland - HLS01275
Binroyd stands on the north-easterly slopes of Norland. The stream runs close by and Copley village and Sterne Bridge are about equi-distant. The…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Binroyd, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Norland, Sketch
Boothtown House, Halifax - HLS01407
Tags: Architecture, Boothtown House, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Sketch
Borough Market, Halifax - HLS01396
Tags: Architecture, Borough Market, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Sketch
Bradley Hall, Stainland - HLS01290
Under the hills on the Stainland side and overlooking the Blackburn Valley. It is said that Bradley Hall was the cradle of the Saviles. Originally the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Bradley Hall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch, Stainland
Branch Road Inn, Greetland - HLS01340
Ale has been drunk for centuries in some of the ancient moorland and country inns round Elland and although the age of…
Brearley Hall, Mytholmroyd - HLS01271
Few homesteads are more pleasantly situated than Brearley Hall, which stands on an eminence between Mytholmroyd and Luddenden Foot. Antiquaries tell us…
Tags: 1910s, Brearley, Brearley Hall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Mytholmroyd, Sketch
Britannia Buildings, Elland - HLS01328
Outrageously presumptuous by today
Broadbottom, Mytholmroyd - HLS01270
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…
Tags: 1910s, Broadbottom Farm, Drawing, Farm, Farm house, Farmhouse, Farms, Halifax Courier Ltd., Mytholmroyd, Sketch
Broadley Hall, Halifax - HLS01258
“One of the beautiful halls of Ovenden Wood, overlooking the Wheatley Valley from the Mount Tabor side. It derives its name from the Broadley or…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Broadley Hall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch
Bull Green, Halifax - HLS01218
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Clay House, Greetland - HLS01251
There is uncertainty as to the date of this picturesque hall – now divided into two…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Clay House, Drawing, Greetland, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch
Clay House, Soyland - HLS01289
A long, straggling and many-gabled block of buildings, crumbling rapidly to decay. The sketch represents the courtyard in the centre of the ancient pile. …
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Clay House, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Soyland
Coley Hall - HLS01266
The architecture has unique features and an interesting history attaches to the house. From the latter part of the 13th century the Rysshworth family had…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Coley Hall, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch
Crawstone Hall, Greetland - HLS01252
With its old-fashioned gateway and courtyard it has still on this side much the same appearance it had when…
Earl Street, Halifax - HLS01409
Tags: Claremount, Drawing, Earl Street, Halifax, Sketch, Street Names
Elim Church, Halifax - HLS01325
The Elim church in Hall Street, Halifax which succeeded the former building in Bond Street incorporates many striking…
Elland Town Hall - HLS01338
Though a personification of Victorian solidity and respectability worthy of accommodating the most…
Tags: Architecture, Drawing, Elland, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Town Hall
Ewood Court, Mytholmroyd - HLS01345
Ewood
Field House, Sowerby - HLS01284
Field House, the old home of the Stansfield family, occupies a commanding site overlooking Triangle and is one of the most imposing mansions around…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Field House, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Sowerby