Halifax Collection

Halifax Bomber Halifax Bomber
Halifax Bomber - Handley Page Long-range Bomber. One of the most formidable in the World. Four Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines. Four-gun Bolton Paul Rear Turret. Date: circa 1940s

Poster advertising White Star Line to USA and Canada
Poster advertising the White Star Line between Liverpool and Southampton to Queenstown, Boston, Philadelphia, Quebec, Montreal, Halifax, Portland, Cherbourg and New York

Sherlock Holmes theatre poster
Theatre poster advertising a four-part drama of Sherlock Holmes, playing at the Grand Theatre in Halifax, the show travelling from the Lyceum Theatre in London

Union Workhouse, Halifax, West Yorkshire
The Halifax Union workhouse on Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire. After 1930, it became St Johns Public Assistance Institution

Halifax Workhouse 1901
A birdseye view of the workhouse infirmary at Halifax, Yorkshire

Olympic arrives at Halifax, WW1, dazzle painting
The troopship Olympic arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a cargo of 6000 Canadian soldiers. It was the premier troopship in the world and throughout the First World War transported 70

Shibden Hall
The splendid half-timbered porch of Shibden Hall, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Date: 15th century

Crossley and Porter Orphanage, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifaxs Crossley Orphanage was founded in 1864 by Joseph, John and Francis Crossley. The building was designed by John Hogg

Tewkesbury Watermill
This famous old watermill at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, was immortalised by Dinah Mulock Craik in her book John Halifax, Gentleman

Handley Page Halifax Heavy Bomber Aircraft, WW2
RAF Handley Page Halifax Heavy Bomber Aircraft, WW2 Date: 1942

Sir Francis Crossley, businessman, philanthropist and MP
Sir Francis Crossley (1817-1872), 1st Baronet of Halifax, British carpet manufacturer, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician. Date: 1860s

The Great Halifax Explosion, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Great Halifax Explosion, Halifax, near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Date: 1917

Handley Page Halifax VI RG815 Mercury of the RAF
Handley Page Halifax VI, RG815, Mercury of the RAF Empire Radio School, Debden, prior to its 25, 000-mile tour of Palestine, Iraq, India, Burma, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand in 1946

Poster, Aladdin at Grand Theatre, Halifax
Pantomime poster, Milton Rays production of Aladdin at the Grand Theatre, Halifax. circa 1900

The Town, Brighouse, Yorkshire
The Town, Brighouse, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1904

Vintage Lorry outside The Old King Cross Inn, King Cross, Yo
Vintage Lorry outside The Old King Cross Inn (awaiting identification), King Cross, Halifax, near Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Boy dragging coal wagon with harness and chain in mine
A boy with a harness and chain between his legs drags a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire

Les Cloches de Corneville by Clairville and Charles Gabet. It was adapted into English by H. B. Farnie and Robert Reece. Reverse of the previous flyer for the Halifax Amateur Operatic Society

The naming ceremony of Handley Page Halifax I L9608
The naming ceremony of Handley Page Halifax I, L9608, at Radlett by the Viscountess Halifax, 12 September 1941. Date: 1941

Alice Louisa Zetland
ALICE LOUISA marchioness of ZETLAND daughter of viscount Halifax wife of the first marquess Date: ? - 1934

Glacial rock, Halifax 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Old ladies, Piece Hall Halifax - 1
Dressed in identical raincoats and woolly hats, twin old ladies stand in the Piece Hall square, Halifax, West Yorkshire, and eat their ice creams. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Riots at Salter Hebble, Halifax
Disturbances at Salter Hebble in Halifax, part of the 1842 general strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots, The riots started among the miners in Staffordshire, England

Skircoat Depot, Halifax Corporation Tramways, Halifax, West Yorkshire, fitted with a Kinnear patent steel rolling shutter. Date: circa 1930s

Pensioners and a child in the Piece Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire
Pensioners sit in the sunshine at The Piece Hall in Halifax Yorkshire, England. Two old men chat, while an old lady holds her granddaughter. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Old ladies, Piece Hall Halifax - 2
Dressed in identical raincoats and woolly hats, twin old ladies stand in the Piece Hall square, Halifax, West Yorkshire, and eat their ice creams. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1989

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Commercial Street, Halifax

Commercial Street, Halifax, Edwardian period

Halifax - Commercial Street from North

Halifax - fire engine

Halifax - North Bridge

Halifax - Railway Station

Halifax - tram accident

Halifax - West Vale Railway Station

Halifax first motor bus

Halifax - Industrial view

WW2 - Handley Page Halifax
A photograph of a British Royal Air Force Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber, relative to a true to life novel, Seven Pilots written by Charles Patrick Ranke Graves. Date: 1942

WW2 - Handley Page Halifax Engines
A photograph which shows two of the four engines of a Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber, relative to a true to life novel, Seven Pilots written by Charles Patrick Ranke Graves. Date: 1942

Bell Hotel, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, which features in a Victorian novel by Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Jacob Milling postcard
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. An exceptional handwritten postcard postmarked 11pm on 9 April 1912 sent by Second Class passenger Jacob Christian Milling (1863?1912)

Halifax Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the Halifax building society. The image shows a pipe smoking architect showing a contractor his plans. Date: circa 1936

Titanic postcard from passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - postcard written by Third-Class passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo-Martino from Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912

RMS Titanic - RMS Virginian Christmas card
RMS Titanic - unusual RMS Virginian Christmas card for December 1912. The Virginian was one of the vessels that took Titanic's distress calls

L'egare II - North Atlantic expedition raft, at Falmouth
L'egare II, a raft used by a French crew in 1956 to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition, led by Henri Beaudout, departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving 88 days later at Falmouth

Orphan boy from the National Children's Homes and Orphanages been sent, thinking that he would have more opportunities there. Date: circa 1908

Arms of Principal Cities in Britain
Coats of arms of principal cities in Britain. Date: 1880

Cavaliere F Castellano Grand Opera Co, Theatre Royal, Halifax - caricature of Castellano drawn by Caruso the Great Tenor, Dublin, 1909 Date: 1909

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