Halifax Corporation Passenger Transport Department; Countryside Tour No.1 leaflet, c1955
"See the beauty of your own countryside in comfort" says this wee leaflet as it advertises one of the two countryside sightseeing tours that thus municipal operator ran in the 1950s and '60s. It was part of quite a common movement for municipal operators to 'do' tours of their boroughs at the time including some that were not noted for their scenic beauty! But Halifax was one of the fortunate in that the town was, and still is, surrounded by some splendid moorlands offering panoramic views across the Pennine valleys. This version of the tour, taking 2.5hrs, covered many of the town's 'joint committee' routes and ran via Wainstalls, Booth, Peckett Well, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd before the long climb up through Cragg Vale and almost to the county boundary before it was downhill all the way to Sowerby Bridge.
Halifax Corporation Passenger Transport Department; Countryside Tour No.1 leaflet, c1955
"See the beauty of your own countryside in comfort" says this wee leaflet as it advertises one of the two countryside sightseeing tours that thus municipal operator ran in the 1950s and '60s. It was part of quite a common movement for municipal operators to 'do' tours of their boroughs at the time including some that were not noted for their scenic beauty! But Halifax was one of the fortunate in that the town was, and still is, surrounded by some splendid moorlands offering panoramic views across the Pennine valleys. This version of the tour, taking 2.5hrs, covered many of the town's 'joint committee' routes and ran via Wainstalls, Booth, Peckett Well, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd before the long climb up through Cragg Vale and almost to the county boundary before it was downhill all the way to Sowerby Bridge.