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©Phil Champion
This car park was the original site of Halifax North bridge station, The line was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1880, It closed to passengers trains in 1955. The goods yard remained in operation until 1974. This section of line between Holmfield and Queensbury involved some serious excavation work. Strines cutting and Queensbury tunnel take up most of the 2 1/4 mile stretch. Water made the work difficult, to this day the southern end of Queensbury tunnel is completely flooded. Goods traffic began rolling on 14th October 1878. Queensbury station was opened on Easter Saturday 1879, North Bridge opened on 25th March 1880. After a bit of local pressure an additional station at Ovenden was opened in June 1881. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/72157607045055443/detail/ for many more 2008 and archive pictures of the railway in operation.
©philld
This view is from Beacon Hill. Two of the three bridges can be seen in the centre - the North Bridge and the modern viaduct carrying the Halifax bypass. The oldest bridge is down in the valley out of sight. In front is a former industrial area that has been redeveloped as a retail park.
©Humphrey Bolton
This view is from Beacon Hill. Partly duplicating another photo, but showing the parish church as well as the other named buildings. Although the 18C Square Chapel is square, it was built in a district called Square. It was saved from dereliction and probable demolition by volunteers who have established it as a thriving arts centre. It was replaced in the 19C by the neo-Gothic chapel to the right, of which little but the tower and spire survive. Behind it is the Piece Hall, built round a courtyard in the 18C when Halifax was an important market centre for the wool and cloth trade. The Parish Church is very ancient, and the parish originally included the whole of upper Calderdale, a similar area to the present Metropolitan Borough. In front are some staithes, where materials such as coal were tipped from railway wagons into carts below.
©Humphrey Bolton
This retail unit had only been erected for a few years. Its sole occupant Floors2Go moved out about two years previously and the building was left empty. The site was being cleared to make way for more car parking at the Sainsbury's supermarket nearby. Not long after being laid out as a car park the site was being used as a site compound during works to extend the supermarket.
©Phil Champion
Formerly occupied by flooring retailer Floors-2-Go, this retail shed was destined to be demolished by the end of 2010 to make way for a staff car park for the nearby Sainsbury's supermarket.
©Phil Champion
This retail unit near the Halifax Sainsbury's supermarket had only been erected a few years earlier. I assume it wasn't well located as the flooring store that occupied it moved to different premises a year or two ago. At the time this photograph was taken contractors were preparing to demolish the shed to make way for a staff car park for the supermarket.
©Phil Champion
An extension to the supermarket over an area of car parking alongside Lower Cross Street.
©Phil Champion
As part of a scheme to improve the supermarket a new steel structure was being erected on the site of a former customer car park.
©Phil Champion
Two double-deckers slumbering in spring sunshine before their scheduled departures.
©Colin Smith
The store was undergoing a major red-development, with a large extension facing Lower Cross Street. This vehicle had probably just delivered part of the steel structure.
©Phil Champion
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©Betty Longbottom
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©David Ward
Dist:0.1km<br/>Halifax has set up a pigeon feeding area next to the bus station and this signs explains the theory of it all. Herein is wisdom ...
©David Ward
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©Stanley Walker

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