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This trio were killed whilst flying in Halifax II, W1058 ZA-S of No 10 Squadronn, which crashed at Duisdorf on a raid to Cologne in 1942.
Wing Commander (Pilot) WILDEY, RICHARD KEMP (DICK)
Service Number 37437
Died 15/10/1942
Aged 25
10 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force
D F C
Son of Harold W. Wildey and Lottie Wildey; husband of Eileen Marjorie Wildey, of Ewell, Surrey.
Sergeant (Air Gunner)DU BROY, JOSEPH WILLIAM
Service Number R/82074
Died 15/10/1942
Aged 21
10 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Royal Canadian Air Force
Son of William and Anna Du Broy, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Flight Lieutenant (Air Gunner)BRINDLEY, ALFRED
Service Number 42969
Died 15/10/1942
10 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force
P509RYM sits forlonly in a borrowed parking space near Yorkshire Heritage Bus Co's Luddenden Foot depot, following the end of HJC's supermarket contracts and the final closure of Albert Road depot.
Halifax Transit 1189, a 2014 New Flyer XD40, on route 56 at Micmac Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023.
Preserved UJX 920M Leyland Leopard PSU4B/2R / Plaxton .
New 1973 to Halifax Corporation
Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust running day at Morecambe..
Halifax Transit 31CZ027 is a 2015 Ford Police Interceptor Sedan.
Photo taken at Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth, NS.
Many of Halifax's landmarks can be seen in this shot taken on the road down from Withens - Beacon Hill, All Souls Church, Halifax Parish Church/Minster, Mackintosh's chimney, Dean Clough Mills & chimney, Square Church spire, the Town Hall spire, St George's, Lee Mount, the town centre flats, and the HBOS offices. On the skyline is Emley Moor TV mast.
The Quality Street factory in the British city of Halifax.
6 September 2021
L'usine dans laquelle les bonbons «Quality Street» sont produits à la ville britannique de Halifax.
6 septembre 2021
A serious fire broke out during the night in a residential neighbourhood of Halifax. This photo was taken from the living room window of our apartment.
Counting down the last few weeks of Yorkshire Tiger: it's been announced by Transdev that the new name for the business will be "Team Pennine", and Tiger's bright orange will be replaced by a magenta colour scheme. Here is ex Arriva Yorkshire YJ09EYB approaching Halifax Bus Station on the short run down from Claremount.
SN14TVL, recently cascaded from Leeds, enters Halifax on a service from Mixenden. Beyond is landmark All Souls Parish Church, redundant since 1979 and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church was funded by local industrialist Col. Edward Akroyd, and built by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Akroyd's house and estate is immediately adjacent to the church, and is now Bankfield Museum & Park. Akroyd had mills in nearby Akroyden (named after him) and Copley, and built model villages for his employees at both. Scott was the architect of many iconic buildings.
Operated by: Halifax Transit
Built in: 2010
Manufacturer: Nova Bus
Model: LFS Artic
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737 seen on the 1 Spring Gardens to Mumford.
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Panoramic view of work in progress redeveloping Halifax Bus Station. The small temporary facility can be seen beyond the hoardings.
There has certainly been a church at Halifax for about 900 years. The Minster, formerly a Parish Church until 23 November 2009, was completed by about 1438. It comprises a nave, chancel and full-length aisles, and is thought to be the third church on this site, but it includes stonework from earlier periods. There are a few carved chevron stones, which date from before 1150, and several 12th-century tomb-covers in the porch. Windows of the Early English style in the north wall are replacements of originals dating from the 14th century. A portion of this north wall is much earlier, and may have originally been part of the Norman church; it has sometimes been claimed this was the south wall of an older church.
After the completion of the present nave and chancel, several additions were made. The tower was erected between 1449 and 1482; and the Rokeby and Holdsworth Chapels – originally chantry chapels – were completed by about 1535.
Jacobean box pews are a prominent feature of the Minster, and most of those in the nave date from 1633 to 1635. They bear some similarity to those at Bolton Percy, and the names of the carpenters involved are known. A pew in the centre aisle bears the remains of a memorial brass to John Waterhouse, who died in 1539/40. The carved arms of Richard Sunderland of High Sunderland, who died in 1634, are attached to another pew. Several ancient pew nameplates may be seen attached to a board on the inner north wall of the tower, the oldest dates to 1615 and reads “This stall made at the cost of Robert Fisher of Halifax.”
A small portion of Medieval stained-glass survives in the upper westernmost clerestory window, which was removed from other windows in the mid 19th century. The Puritans who were prominent in the town in the 17th century, thought stained glass with its ‘images’ was an abomination. During the Commonwealth (1649–1660) many plain-glass leaded windows of a unique design were installed, paid for by Mrs Dorothy Waterhouse. Many of these were later replaced by Victorian stained glass, but those that survived in 1958 were carefully rebuilt. At that date there were three of these on each side of the chancel, but now there are five on the south side and only one on the north. The large west window in the tower is a late 19th-century reconstruction of a Commonwealth window dating from 1657, but contains no original work. The great east window of the church depicts the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, and was completed in 1854. It is the work of George Hedgeland (1825–98), who exhibited stained glass at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The remaining glass in the Parish Church dates also from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Minster#A_brief_history
The spire to the left is that of the ruined Square Church:
The Victorian 14th-century Gothic style Square Congregational Church was built at The Square. The name Square comes from its location, not its design. It was designed by Joseph James for Sir Francis Crossley and the Crossley family.
Sir Francis Crossley laid the foundation stone on 10th March 1855, and the church opened on 15th July 1857. It could accommodate 1,250 people. The building cost £10,242. It was said to be the finest used by this religious body in the kingdom [1857] It superseded the neighbouring Square Independent Chapel which then became a Sunday School.
The tower with its 235 ft-high spire – which had been paid for by Sir Francis Crossley – was then the second tallest in Yorkshire, only Wakefield Cathedral at 247 ft was taller, but All Souls' Church, Haley Hill was built shortly afterwards and was 1 foot taller.
The last service at the neighbouring Square Independent Chapel was held on 12th June, 1857 and the chapel then became the Sunday School for the church – the largest Sunday School in the town.
Range Bank Congregational Church opened in the 1850s as an outpost of the Square Church, and Highroad Well Congregational Church around 1908. In 1869, a number of members left to establish Park Congregational Church.
During a gale which hit the district on 16th December 1873, the pinnacles of the Church were blown off the tower, and fell through the roof, causing doing considerable damage. In 1969, the church was amalgamated with the United Congregational Church in Harrison Road, and it closed for worship in 1970. The interior was almost destroyed by fire on 3rd January 1971.
The church was demolished in 1976, with only the foundations and the spire remaining. The tower and spire are listed.
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Northgate House, the former Calderdale Council offices, and the adjacent former Central Library are being redeveloped into a new Sixth Form Centre for 1000 students, and retail/office space.
Controversial considering the strength of feeling among Calderdale residents to keep the library where it was, but we were told the buildings were dilapidated (at 40 years old), and fit only for demolition...