https://www.penninehorizons.org/files/original/0e5a16b5cb07a93d715e055b174fdf88.jpg 19d2f2ac9f4e2da8fae76c084af5cd66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hebden Bridge Local History Society Description An account of the resource The Hebden Bridge Local History Society was formed in 1949 and is a section of the Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society which celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2005. The Society organises a winter programme from September to March on Wednesdays at the Methodist Church in Hebden Bridge at 7:30 pm. The Society's archive and library is housed at The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge. The collection is available for members to use on the second Wednesday and fourth Saturday of each month. Donations to the archive are welcomed. Contributions of photos and documents, even from the recent past. A catalogue of the Society's is available on their website.. One of the many projects the Society is currently working on is the Gibson and Sutcliffe papers. The materials had been lying in a room at Croft House in Hebden Bridge, undisturbed for over 50 years. One collection belonged to Abraham Gibson of Greenwood Lee and the other to Sutcliffe & Sutcliffe, architects. Members of the Society are also transcribing gravestones in Heptonstall churchyard, providing easy access to local information for genealogists. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Piece Hall, Halifax - HLS00199 Subject The topic of the resource Architecture, Buildings, Halifax, Piece Hall Description An account of the resource 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 houses, were brought to market each Saturday morning by local manufacturers and smaller cloth makers, to be sold not only to local merchants and to buyers from across the country, but also to agents acting on behalf of Continental merchants. The building itself, probably designed by John Hope of Liverpool, is an open rectangular structure containing originally 315 rooms, surrounding a courtyard of some 10,000 square yards and comprising a two-storey colonnade with a lower storey added on the eastern side to take account of the sloping site. The architecture draws on Roman classical precedents, with rustic piers supporting semi-circular arches on the ground floor ‘Arcade’ level, square jointed columns on the intermediate ‘Rustic’ level, and a series of round Doric columns on the top floor ‘Colonnade’. The mechanisation of the textile industry in the first hall of the 19th century progressively undermined the position of the handloom weaver in the local economy and the centralisation of all textile processes within large mill buildings, to which merchants had direct access, rendered the Piece Hall increasingly obsolete. During its decline it was used for a variety of public events, including political meetings, firework displays, a balloon ascent, and Whit Monday Sunday School ‘Sings’. It was finally handed over to Halifax Corporation in 1868, and for over a century served as a wholesale fish, fruit and vegetable market. Although scheduled as an Ancient Monument in 1928, its historic and architectural significance was not widely appreciated until the 1970s, when it was cleaned and restored. It now houses a wide variety of shops, and a restaurant, art gallery, tourist information centre and pre-industrial museum. Text from: Calderdale Architecture and History. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ref: 016Morgan Lit & Sci Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society Relation A related resource Pennine Horizons Digital Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource TIFF file 8-bit Language A language of the resource English (U.K.) Type The nature or genre of the resource Documentary photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context HLS00199.tif Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource No date yet Architecture Buildings Halifax Piece Hall