English Buildings

  Christmas is coming and with this in mind I am reviewing three recent books that will appeal to many who are interested in historic buildi...

Salt’s way In the middle of the 19th century, Bradford textile manufacturer Titus Salt decided to move his factory away from the city centre...

Victorian Cromwell Wondering around the centre of Bradford, I spent some time staring at the huge City Hall (designed as the Town Hall in 18...

Wool and stone and dancing light They would not have called it a trading hub in the 1770s, when it was built, but the Piece Hall in Halifax...

Looking up in Halifax Looking up in the centre of Halifax, you quickly realise that many of the town’s shops were rebuilt, on a grand scale ...

Attention! Authority! Regular readers of this blog will be aware that the signs of yesteryear are one of my perennial obsessions. Old signa...

The great and the goods Huddersfield station (see my previous post) had imposing buildings for passengers, but a lot of its traffic carried ...