Public Hall & Parish Church, West Vale, Halifax - MCH00217
Churches & Chapels, Places, St John's, St Johns, West Vale
St John the Evangelist Church, Calder Street, West Vale was built in 1882 and last used fior worship in 1982.
Greetland and West Vale Mechanics' Hall was erected by the Greetland and West Vale Mechanics' Hall Company Limited and was intended to serve as both a town hall and mechanics' institute. The building's corner stone was laid on 21 June 1873 by Edward Crossley, businessman and member of Halifax's prominent carpet manufacturing family, who was also mayor of Halifax in 1874-6 and 1884-5. The building, which is believed to have been designed by Horsfall, Wardle & Patchett of Halifax, cost £3000 to construct and opened on 18 May 1874, with the capital raised for its construction being derived from £1 shares.
The building provided a large public hall for meetings and concerts, as well as classrooms, a library, and offices for the Greetland Local Board, Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank, and the Halifax Permanent Building Society. The Greetland and West Vale Fire Brigade was also based in the basement, which at the rear of the building presents itself as a lower ground floor level. In 1879 Anglican services were held in the hall until the construction of the Church of St John the Evangelist (by T Rushforth, Grade II) at the north-east rear of the building on Calder Street was completed in 1880. In 1882 the local Liberals opened a club in the building, with an opening ceremony attracting 700 people.
In 1907 the building was sold to Greetland District Council and it subsequently passed to Elland Urban District Council, and then Calderdale Council in 1974, before being sold to private owners in the 1990s, at which point it was partly used as offices. The building remained in use until c.2012. The building has latterly been known as West Vale Public Hall.
Information from: Historic England
Mick Chatham
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Crown Street, Hebden Bridge - BIM00404
Cheetham Street, Churches & Chapels, Civic Hall, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, St Johns, Street Names, Transport
Bill Marsden
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PHDA - Bill Marsden Collection
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Crown Street, Hebden Bridge - BIM00404
Cheetham Street, Churches & Chapels, Civic Hall, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, St Johns, Street Names, Transport
Bill Marsden
Bill Marsden
PHDA - Bill Marsden Collection
BIM00404.tif
General View over Hebden Bridge - RAW00111
Central Street School, Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Hebden Bridge, Melbourne Mill, Mill, Minster, Riverside School, School, St Johns, Stubbings School, Walker Lane Chapel
Date unknown. Noticeable in the centre are the arches of Stubbings School and next to it on the left is St John's Church, demolished in the 1980s. The 4 storeyed mill bottom centre was known as Melbourne Mill, which was demolished in 1983, now the site of the Co-op.
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Weddings - ALC05762
Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Minster, St Johns, Warley, Weddings
20 February 1954. Desmonde and Margaret Moss. St John's Church, Warley.
Alice Longstaff
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1950s, 1954
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Hebden Bridge - General View - ALC00412
Aqueduct, Baptist Chapel, Birchcliffe, Bridge, Buildings, Canal, Canals, Central Street, Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Co-operative Building, Council Offices, Crossley Mill, Dodnaze, Hebden Bridge, Hebden Water, Hope Baptist Chapel, Keighley Road, Lock, Memorial Gardens, Mill, Mills, Minster, Old Bridge, Picture House, Places, River, Riverside School, Rochdale Canal, Salem Mill, School, Schools, St Georges Bridge, St Johns, Street Names, Stubbings School, Towpath, Transport, West End Bridge, Zion Baptist Chapel
Date unknown but probably late 1940s/early 1950s as the first steel pre-fabricated houses at Dodnaze on Wadsworth Lane can be seen. Central Street and Riverside Schools feature prominently
Lilywhite Ltd. Brighouse
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1950s
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Hebden Bridge - Birchcliffe - ALC00365
Birchcliffe Road, Cars, Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Hebden Bridge, Hebden Water, Keighley Road, Minster, Old Petrol Pump, Places, Public Houses, Pubs Inns & Hotels, River, Road, St Johns, Street Names, Stubbings School, Taverns, Transport, White Lion Hotel
Looking across the White Lion yard to Birchcliife. Behind the houses centre left is the roof of St John's Church which was consecrated in 1931 and made redundant in 1984 and converted into dwellings. To its right is Stubbings School opened 1878.
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1930s
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Mytholm - BIM00290
Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Hell Hole Quarry, Heptonstall, Heptonstall Church, Minster, Mytholm, Places, Quarry, St Johns
Bill Marsden
Bill Marsden
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1990s
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Hebden Bridge
St John's, Cragg Vale - HLS00113
Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Cragg Vale, Minster, Places, St John's, St Johns
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