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Swine Market, Halifax - HLS01403
1969 calendar. Swine Market once looked like this before the Grand Junction Hotel (right) and property on the South side of Gilbert Street was cleared to make way for a widened A58 trunk road. PH15.
Green Hill Terrace, Halifax - HLS01404
PH15. 1969 calendar. Demolished in 1967 it was described as possibly the only complete example in Halifax of a terrace in the Regency style. The Regency influence was confined to the arch over the doorway, though the windows were originally small…
Wainhouse Terrace, Halifax - HLS01405
PH15. 1969 calendar. Not widely known because it is out of general sight between Burnley and Rochdale Roads, past Kings Cross. The galleried houses take their name from J. E. Wainhouse, builder of more famous and certainly more visible Wainhouse…
Stannery Lane, Halifax. - HLS01406
PH15. 1969 calendar. It derives its name from stoneary for once stone was quarried from the hillside here when it was still a hamlet isolated from Halifax.
Boothtown House, Halifax - HLS01407
Seen from Hall Street North, it is an Old Boothtown landmark which was exempted from demolition in the area because of its historical and architectural interest.
Union Mills, Halifax - HLS01408
1969 calendar. Situated on Pellon Lane it is a fine example of the substantial and impressive nature of the portals of many 19th Century industrial premises. Union Mills of S Highley & Company , worsted manufacturers, was largely rebuilt after a…
Earl Street, Halifax - HLS01409
1969 calendar. Claremount, Halifax is a scene typical of the area known as Beaumont Town - 19th century cottage property with setted highway and flagged pavements. At the fall of the slope is St Thomas's School. PH15.
Swaine's Terrace, Halifax - HLS01410
1969 calendar. In the Haugh Shaw district of Halifax it provides another example of the use of the gallery to counteract the building difficulties of sloping land. The extra storey at the lower level of the building gave scope for either cellaring…
Ramsden Street, Halifax - HLS01411
1969 calendar. Wheatley, Halifax shows a particular feature of a West Riding building in the 19th Century, when the handicap of a narrow site on a steeply rising hillside was overcome by putting one house on top of another with access at different…
Waterloo Street, Boothtown, Halifax - HLS01412
1969 calendar. Typical galleried houses and cellar cottages of the hilly West Riding - Waterloo Street, Boothtown as it once was. PH15.
Woolshops, Halifax - HLS01413
1969 calendar. The name is said to be unique - an area of Halifax which has undergone marked change in every generation of the past century. \it is the original location of the warehouses and shops of the wool staplers or wool drivers. PH15.
Range Bank, Halifax - HLS01414
1969 calendar. One of Halifax's steepest gradients looking down towards New Bank and North Bridge . With a slope of over 1 in 5 it was once part of the main road from Halifax to Bradford over Swales Moor. PH15.
Boundary Stone, Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge - HLS01107
The plaque says: This stone is one of several which marked the boundary between the ancient townships of Heptonstall and Wadsworth.
River Calder at Mayroyd, Hebden Bridge - HLS01109
Weir near Station Road. Queens Terrace can be seen on the far hillside.
View over Hebden Bridge from Fairfield - HLS01110
Taken before the Grammar School was built in 1908.
Miss Britannia - HLS01211
Hebden Royd's "Miss Britannia" for Warship week February 1942 - a fund raising pageant. Miss Audrey Bedford of 19 White Lee Gardens, Mytholmroyd.
Miss Britannia - HLS01213
Hebden Royd's "Miss Britannia" for Warship week February 1942 - a fund raising pageant. Miss Audrey Bedford of 19 White Lee Gardens, Mytholmroyd.
