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Halifax Borough Market, a stunning Victorian indoor covered market with breathtaking Victorian ironwork.
Kids exploring one of the art installations in Halifax Public gardens during Nocturne Night at Halifax.
I'm guessing that opinions will be polarised on this - First has repainted YJ06XLY into a 'fantasy' Halifax livery - is this what Halifax buses would have looked like today if they had escaped WYPTE's verona green & buttermilk? What would Geoffrey Hilditch make of it? Personally, I like it, and think First are to be congratulated on their sense of fun. Unfortunately, this picture depicts a scene of distress. YJ06XLY set off smartly from the bus station up Broad Street, only to come to a halt at the Town Hall traffic lights. It was still there over two hours later...
A Handley Page Halifax bomber from WWII, recovered from a Norwegian Lake back in the 1970s. Seen at the RAF Museum in north London.
Halifax Transit offers two ferry services: The Alderney Ferry service crosses from Halifax to Alderney Landing in downtown Dartmouth and the Woodside Ferry service crosses from Halifax to Woodside.
This ferry ship is named after Viola Desmond, a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre
That bridge crossing over the brook is actually part of a private driveway to a beautiful secluded home.
North Bridge, Halifax is a Victorian iron and stone bridge at Halifax, West Yorkshire, in northern England. It crosses the valley of the River Hebble, connecting the town to roads to Bradford and Leeds. Replacing an earlier six arch stone bridge it was raised to allow the subsequent construction of the Halifax High Level Railway under it with an adjoining station. Opened in 1871 amid chaotic crowd scenes it carried increasingly heavy traffic until it was by-passed by the Burdock Way in 1973. It remains in use for local traffic.
The Halifax Piece Hall is the sole survivor of the great C18th Northern cloth halls, a class of buildings which embodied the vital and dominant importance of the trade in hand woven textiles to the pre-industrial economy of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Dating from 1779, when it was built as a Cloth Hall for the trading of ‘pieces’ of cloth (a 30 yard length of woven woollen fabric produced on a handloom), The Piece Hall was the most ambitious and prestigious of its type and now stands in splendid isolation as the only remaining example. It is one of Britain’s most outstanding Georgian buildings.
A month from now and things will have changed. Yorkshire Tiger will have gone and in its place will be Transdev Team Pennine, who hope to begin from day 1 with some new vehicles (I'm not defining 'new' here). YJ07JVL returns from the hilltop Wainstalls terminus back down to Halifax Bus Station, with Mecca Bingo (formerly the Odeon) behind.
Halifax isn't known for its town centre high rise buildings, but DB250/Spectra YG52CFX has managed to be in shot with not one, but two tower blocks, Lister Court, residential flats, in the background, and Crown House, offices, to the right, as it negotiates upper Crown Street. Arriva subsidiary Yorkshire Tiger will close later in July, to be replaced by new Transdev business Team Pennine. Transdev is taking on the premises at Elland and Waterloo, Huddersfield, the staff, and 61 vehicles from Yorkshire Tiger (although the fledgling Team Pennine website implies they are taking all the vehicles, initially at least). YG52CFX was new to Arriva Yorkshire. Major investment, including new buses in Halifax, is promised.
Made a visit up to the crash site of Halifax DK 116 on Glendhu Hill yesterday after a failed attempt last year with my brother, with it being in a very remote area of Keilder forest I decided on accessing via Kershope forest this time.
Parking at the Cuddy's Hall picnic area and biking up to Glendhu which is about 6 hard miles then I stashed the bike before heading across the boggy moor, I went into the forest at "Robinson's Gears" were I was hoping it would be easier walking however this was short-lived and was no easier. It felt like I was walking for an age before I came across the crashsite at Marven's Cleugh (about a 1.5mile hike from the bike)
I thought the trees around the site might have been harvested since I was last here 6 years back but no still as it was .
A new more substantial cross has been erected and still lots of wreckage surrounds the area thanks to the remoteness.
After paying my respects I trudged back over the moor to my bike and thankfully it was mostly downhill back to the car.
This in my opinion is the easiest and quickest way to access but no easier due to still having to cross the moor.
On Sunday 15th/Monday 16th October 1944, (N1870) at 22.00 During a cross country exercise from RAF Sandtoft ,Lincs Halifax V DK116/GG-Z of 1667HCU suffered a fire on the inner port engine at 12000 ft. Three of the crew managed to bail out, but four crew stayed with the aircraft to assist the rear gunner who had difficulty in escaping from his turret. The aircraft crashed into Glendhu Hill, Kielder, Northumberland killing the four remaining crewmen.
The crew were:
Pilot: P/O H.G. Haddrell - Killed
Navigator: Sgt J Mahoney - Survived
F/E: Sgt J Neilson - Killed
W/Op: Sgt Reid - Survived
W/Op: Sgt M.F. James - Killed
A/G: Sgt Hammond - Survived
R/G: W/O G Symmonds - Killed
This site is protected by Military Remains Act 1986
8th July 2014., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sailboat Mar passes McNabs Island and Maugher Beach lighthouse
Interesting story from the Halifax Magazine about this boat and its owners here
"On the Buses", with Andrew Stopford as cheeky driver Stan Butler, and Kelvyn Waites as hapless Inspector Cyril Blake. Stan: "Phwooar, look at that tasty bird over there Blakey!" Blakey: "I 'ate you Butler. Get that bus aht!" The End.
PJX35 at rest outside All Saints Parish Hall having brought a party of Halifax Gilbert & Sullivan Society members back from an afternoon out at (a very wet) Bolton Abbey to celebrate my 60th birthday. Thanks once again to Kelvyn for allowing me to drive this magnificent machine. I used to go to school on this bus, my brother, who worked as a fitter for Halifax Passenger Transport, used to maintain it, and Kelvyn drove it in service for Halifax Passenger Transport. It is part owned by Dave Sayer, who also used to work for Halifax Passenger Transport.
Former Arriva Yorkshire MPD V216PCX looks like it is staying long term with subsidiary Yorkshire Tiger. Here it is at Rye Lane terminus, a former Halifax Joint Committee route taken over in 2010 by Yorkshire Tiger predecessor Huddersfield Bus Co.
New to Tayside Regional Transport & now with Bubble Travel, still in Redline livery (where it was YIL6983). Seen at Eureka Halifax.
Halifax's B7TL/ALX400s appear to be fading fast from the scene - no longer in regular use on the Lightcliffe Academy schools services which now see Enviro 400s. Enjoy 'em while you can. YN53EOB was previously a South Yorkshire vehicle.
Olympian survivor S211LLO makes its way through Dean Clough with the once weekly 505 Halifax-Bradford Four Lane Ends service via Causeway Foot & Thornton. A Bradford-Halifax service runs once daily M-F mornings, but there is only one return working each week, at 12.30 on Mondays.
YJ06XLZ climbs the inclined roundabout from North Bridge to join the eastbound A58 as it swoops down behind on the flyover. Visible right is part of Dean Clough Mills, one time home of Crossley's Carpets, now a vast business park, home to many big and small businesses. The venture was the brainchild of local entrepeneur and concert pianist Sir Ernest Hall, who, it has to be said, has made a thumping success of it, ensuring that the historic mills continue to be occupied in a meaningful way. It also happens to be my workplace.
In September 1973, before West Yorkshire municipal operators were swallowed up into the West Yorkshire PTE.
A PD2 stands at Halifax bus station on one of the joint routes to Bradford. A Bradford Corporation bus stands behind.