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Ex Plymouth, pre-delivery shots, freshly painted into Asda Rider Christmas livery for the Asda Store in Halifax.
YJ15AXM approaches the bus station, having just passed the former Odeon Cinema, successfully operating as a bingo hall now for well over forty years.
At first sight, a standard National Holidays Tourismo, but a quick look at the registration confirms this as a Johnson Bros vehicle, dedicated full time to National Holidays work. Seen here making an early start from Halifax with a long way to go!
Halifax Bus Station partially opened in 1st October (west facing side only). Here is First's Enviro 400 SN14TVU departing for the 576 'Alpine' journey to Bradford on the day after opening.
Last passenger train at the terminus of the Halifax high level line in September 1953. A Stephenson and Manchester Locomotive Societies', West Riding Railtour. Photo.M.Bland.
Ex Arriva Wakefield V208PCX threads its way through Fountain Head 'village'. This vehicle is technically on hire to Huddersfield's K Line, an Arriva subsidiary under common management with Yorkshire Tiger, covering a K Line oddity, the 553 Halifax-Fountain Head. Fountain Head is a new development built on the site of the sadly missed Webster's Fountain Head Brewery, a succesful operation which didn't fit in with some accountant's bigger picture...
On this day I went in search of Huddersfield's front engined buses. It was a Saturday and they had gone. So I went to Halifax and took pictures of their buses instead. I left Halifax on the bus to Manchester and the last bus I saw was a former Huddersfield Titan. It had been moved out to Halifax I believe to concentrate types at one depot. It did not seem right somehow.
The beautifully presented UJX920M, Leyland Leopard/Plaxton, delivered to Halifax Passenger Transport in December 1973 - the undertaking's final new delivery prior to the formation, on 1st April 1974, of WYPTE.
On a gloomy, wet evening, there were many vehicles about to set off. On the right is Yorkshire Tiger Volvo B7TL/Plaxton No 880, then two First Halifax Volvo B7s with Wright bodywork.
The imposing South Gate at the Piece Hall, with the Halifax Coat of arms used by Halifax Corporation from 1848 until 1948, when it was updated and continued in use until 1974, when the Corporation was succeeded by Calderdale Council. Centre of the design is the severed head of John the Baptist on a plate. The latin inscription "Custodierit Civitatem Nisi Dominus" was translated into its English form for the 1948 update - "Except the Lord Keep the City", from Psalm 127. The message expressed in the Psalm is that, without God, all is in vain.
From Warley looking south east towards Halifax. Wainhouse Tower is at centre, with Albert Promenade visible between the trees. Albert Promenade was provided by Henry McCrea, a Halifax businessman, and his house was in Warley, not far from where this shot was taken.
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Converted from a riding school in 1911, the Electric Theatre in Halifax had 800 seats and was part of the National Electric Circuit.
It was taken over in 1928 by Denman / Gaumont and enlarged to the plans of Messrs Horsfall & Dawson to accommodate 1,100. A few years later a further and more drastic enlargement took place and the Electric Theatre now had 1,728 seats.
Trent was brought in to modernise the cinema in 1939, by building a new facade and reducing the capacity to 1,536.
As one of four cinemas on the Wards End crossroads, it was the first to close, in September 1956. It became a car showroom and then a snooker club. In recent years it has had another makeover, with yet another new facade, and now houses a bowling alley and bar on the ground floor and a snooker club on the extended first floor. Internally there is little trace of its cinema past, although the entrance to the snooker hall is via the balcony vomitory and the projection suite survives as a storeroom.
Northgate House, former Calderdale Council municipal offices. Built c1982, condemned c2012 and reportedly fit only for demolition, along with the connected Central Library block (not in shot). Sold by the council and miraculously found to be not fit only for demolition. The library is now a 6th Form Academy, and Northgate House itself has been extensively refurbished ready for retail occupation. Library facilities are now provided in a less convenient location at the back of the Piece Hall in a new building, grafted on to the Spire of the former Square Church.
Dean Clough in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, is a group of large factory buildings built in the 1840s–60s for Crossley's Carpets, becoming one of the world's largest carpet factories (half a mile long with 1,250,000 square feet (116,000 m2) of floorspace). After years of declining production it closed in 1983, when it was bought by a consortium led by Sir Ernest Hall which developed the Grade II listed site for various commercial and cultural uses. It is now seen as a leading example of successful urban regeneration. Dean Clough is located on the north side of Halifax near the Victorian North Bridge and the modern flyover sections of the Burdock Way relief road system. The converted mills now house about 150 large and small businesses and arts venues including Crossley Gallery and several other art galleries and the Viaduct Theatre, home base for the Northern Broadsides theatre company. Phoenix Radio 96.7 FM has its studios in D Mill and Lloyds Banking Group has offices in G Mill.