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Halifax Station Approach. - LYR00161
LYRS 2692 - Halifax Station approach. To the right the top of the Italian style station building which opened in 1855 and to the front of that the canopies on the GNR platforms. Two platforms behind the building, still with canopies, remain in use. …
Halifax Station. - LYR00160
LYRS 1024 - Aspinall 2-4-2T No 39 (possibly) and unidentified coach at Halifax. In the bottom right hand corner the island platform still in use today. The train is standing at Platform 3, now part of Eureka, and in front of it the rails going off…
View over Halifax. - BIM00191
Eureka carpark is in the centre, The Minster, formerly the Parish church is on the right, and Square Chapel and the spire of Square Church and the Piece Hall are on the left.
Broomfield Road, Halifax - BIM00137
Postcard. 1960s.
Beacon Hill, Halifax - BIM00136
Postcard. 1960s.
Halifax Station Approach - GEE00103
The 1855 station was considerably enlarged in the mid-1880s with this high level approach road over the new lines and sidings. It was operated jointly by the L&YR and the GNR but each had their own platforms, refreshment facilities, waiting rooms and…
Halifax Station Approach - GEE00102
The 1855 station was considerably enlarged in the mid-1880s with this high level approach road over the new lines and sidings. It was operated jointly by the L&YR and the GNR but each had their own platforms, refreshment facilities, waiting rooms and…
The Piece Hall, Halifax - LLG00148
During the course of the 18th century Halifax came to occupy a prominent place in West Yorkshire as a cloth market, and the Piece Hall, opened in 1779, is a striking monument to the pre-factory age. ‘Pieces’ or lengths of cloth, handwoven in Pennine…
Gravestones by Wainhouse Tower - LLG00145
A number of myths have accumulated over the years around this unusual landmark which is often referred to as ‘Wainhouse’s Folly’ or the 'Tower of Spite'. The truth is simply that the octagonal tower was erected as a chimney for the Washer Lane Dye…
Holdsworth House, Halifax, 1948 - HLS01420
Now a hotel.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…