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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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Designed by George Lister Sutcliffe, of the firm of Sutcliffe and Sutcliiffe Architects. This image appears on page 13 of A Short History of Birchcliffe Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge. Dated 1899.

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PH16. 1979 Halifax Calendar. Originally a Georgian House - now Local Law Society Offices.

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PH16. 1979 Halifax Calendar. Built in 1856-9 for Col. Akroyd and designed by Sir G. G. Scott who described it as his best church.

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PH16. 1979 Halifax Calendar. Originally a Georgian House - now Local Law Society Offices. Behind the 19th Century entrance is a 17th Century building where an upper room contains fine panelling and plasterwork.

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PH16. 1979 Halifax Calendar. Previously the Hanover Chapel it is now used by the Halifax Thespians.

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PH16. 1979 Halifax Calendar. The central stone part of this Georgian house was built in 1751 and the brick wings in 1760-64.

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PH16. 1979 Halifax Calendar. Dating from 1895 the building contains magnificent ironwork and a central clock standard under the dome.

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Ewood

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Probably one of the oldest buildings in England to be used as a Post Office is Todmorden Hall, a seventeenth century…

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Seen from New Bank are the two approach lanes (inward and outward) of Halifax

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

The tower of St Andrews, the parish church of Stainland, can be seen for miles around. Worship in the village has a…

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PH/25. The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

The Rydings (original name of the building) was built in 1821 as a mansion for Mr John Brooke who was in…

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Ale has been drunk for centuries in some of the ancient moorland and country inns round Elland and although the age of…

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

One of the most impressive structures built for the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company in the late 1830s on the route…

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PH/25. The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Though a personification of Victorian solidity and respectability worthy of accommodating the most…

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

The present St Peter

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The sketch and description are from The Calderdale Sketch Book by J. L. Berbiers, published in 1973 by The Halifax Courier Ltd.

Architect Ian Nairn described the famous top-and
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