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Ex York Park & Ride B7RLE YJ08XYN proceeds along King Cross, Halifax. King Cross has seen some rapid changes in recent years, perhaps one of the most significant being the conversion of the Junction pub to a solicitor's offices. The Junction was originally a Whitaker's house. Richard Whitaker & Sons Ltd had its brewery in Corporation Street, near Dean Clough, and closed in the late 1960s after being taken over by Whitbread. The Junction had a chequered existence under a number of subsequent owners, but its pub days are now over.
Ex Rossendale Transport B7RLE PO59MMA proceeds through King Cross, returning to Halifax from Rochdale. Above King Cross Surgery can be seen the top of Wainhouse Tower, a prominent local landmark.
Northern Express Sprinter 158871 calls at Halifax on 1B20 11.18 York - Preston as 158754 departs on 2E09 11.38 Manchester Oxford Road - Leeds.
28th March 2018
Halifax 521/522 services appear to have been rebranded & the vehicles partially repainted as 'Red Arrow'. YJ54XNA is seen on a miserable November morning. Apologies for the poor quality - the light wasn't good!
Halifax, August 2001. First Calderline, former Greater Manchester Leyland Fleetline/Northern Counties 7230 (ANA44T)
For a while this independent brightened the scene in Halifax. In December 1998 RM 324 loads in central Halifax.
On September 9, 1966, Low Moor Jubilee 45565 Victoria pauses at Halifax with an special passenger 1X16. Withdrawn some four months later in January 1967, 45565 had been the pride and joy of Bradford Low Moor Shed, kept in excellent external condition.. I travelled on a Bank Holiday Special in Spring of 1967 when Low Moor borrowed Jubilee 45593 from Leeds Holbeck for the train to Blackpool.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - July 5, 2008 : The iconic Halifax Town Clock from the top of the Citadel Hill. In the background can be seen the Halifax Harbour and the nearby city of Dartmouth.
Camera: Olympus E500 & Zukko 14-45 lens
ISO 100, 17mm, f/5.6, 1/125
March 1974, shortly before the formation of the South & West Yorkshire PTEs.
The bus is a Halifax Corporation Royal Tiger Worldmaster, rather rare.
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
Team Pennine's Ex Yorkshire Tiger, new to K Line Solo MX08DHP running on a route that was, oddly, originally one of K Line's. Fountainhead is a housing development (described coyly as a 'village'!) on the site of the former Webster's Brewery, and one of the conditions attached to the permission to build the estate (sorry - village!) was that a bus service to town should be provided. The service was provided by K Line, its only long term service, I believe, in Calderdale (although I do remember the service from Halifax to Calderdale Royal Hospital which K Line briefly ran following the takeover of Halifax Joint Committee routes). Based in Honley, south of Huddersfield, latterly K Line was part of the Arriva/Centrebus joint venture that was Centrebus Holdings, which also ran Huddersfield Bus Co and White Rose Bus Co in Leeds. Centrebus Holdings became Yorkshire Tiger under full Arriva ownership. Huddersfield Bus Co had a significant presence in Calderdale with a depot in Elland (now Team Pennine's premises). Yorkshire Tiger ceased trading in July 2021 with Transdev Team Pennine being the latest operator trying to make a go of things.
Somewhat off route is B7TL YJ54XTR, covering a 503 Huddersfield-Halifax rather than its usual X63 Bradford-Huddersfield.
Another ex Hebble bus transferred in 1971 at the closure of the Hebble bus fleet. AEC Regent V Weymann H40/30F formerly Hebble 621
Halifax B Mk.III reconstruction at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington. This composite reconstruction started in 1984 and took 10 years to complete. It includes an 8 mtr section of fuselage from a 58 Squadron Halifax Mk.II ‘HR792’ which crashed on the Outer Hebrides in January 1945 and was subsequently used as a chicken coop for many years before being acquired for the restoration in 1984. The wings are from a Handley Page Hastings transport ‘TG536’, and the nose and tail sections were largely fabricated from scratch by the restoration team. The port side of this aircraft, visible on this photograph is painted to represent ‘LV907’ ‘Friday the 13th’ (NP-F) which completed 128 operations with 158 Squadron. The starboard side is painted as 'NP763' (H7-N) an aircraft of 346 'Guyenne' Squadron, Free French Air Force. This squadron was one of two French bomber squadrons based at RAF Elvington during WWII.
On my morning photowalk, I explored some of the downtown, but also their wonderful wonderful waterfront. It's quite extensive, and I wasn't able to explore the entirety of it. Oddly, even though there are many world-class attractions there, I was QUITE taken by the little village of sea cans that were converted to shops.
On our second day in Halifax for the Unison Choruses Festival, I started the day with a short walkabout in the downtown and waterfront prior to the start of the event as I had some time to kill before festival delegate registration began. There weren't any actual festival concerts until the evening, but I needed to connect with the organizers ahead of the busy days to come.
Halifax, an Atlantic Ocean port in eastern Canada, is the provincial capital of Nova Scotia. A major business centre, it’s also known for its maritime history. The city’s dominated by the hilltop Citadel, a star-shaped fort completed in the 1850s. Waterfront warehouses known as the Historic Properties recall Halifax’s days as a trading hub for privateers, notably during the War of 1812. (wiki)
A bus with history - see tags! Now with Coach Travel Services, Huddersfield. Seen here on duty for Crossley Heath School, Halifax.
New to Reays, I believe YJ62JWL is now owned by Arriva Bus & Coach (dealers) and is used by them as a courtesy vehicle to replace vehicles in for work to be done. Here it is in a misty Halifax Bus Station about to work an early Halifax-Dewsbury service for Arriva Yorkshire, who have had this vehicle on loan before.