This large residential hotel, originally built in 1840 to serve the adjacent railway and formerly linked to the station platform via a footbridge, was badly damaged by fire in 1997, but was later restored. This photo was taken early 1998 before the…
A Grade 2 listed building
Scaitcliffe Hall is beautifully situated in a picturesque part of the Burnley valley. The south part was re-built in 1666 and the north part in 1738, but it was completely pulled down and re-erected in 1833. It is now a…
On 7th April 1906, there was a fatal accident near the Derby Inn, Rishworth.
A horse pulling a trap down the hill past the Derby Inn, Rishworth was frightened when some sheep ran across the road. The horse backed into a wall which collapsed,…
To be found at West View Park, Halifax, off Warley Road.
The land was given to the town by local mill-owners Henry Charles McCrea (Mayor of Halifax 1869-1871) and Enoch Robinson (Mayor of Halifax 1904-1905). The park was opened in 1897.
St Luke’s Hospital was built around 1897 as the Poor Law Union infirmary for the sick poor in Halifax. During World War I it became a military hospital. After the abolition of the Poor Laws in the 1920s the hospital was eventually transferred to the…
The parish church was built in 1847 in Early English style. It was badly damaged in the 2015 floods but has since re-opened. The Sunday school in front of the church was reduced to one storey and is now used as a community hall and meeting spaces…