Focus on Elland - 8th April 2020 - Edition No. 9

Now and Then photos of The Park in Elland

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Old Pub Picture

 Bank Top Inn

2 Ovenden Road

Leased by Websters from around 1875. The pub closed in 1971. 
View our list of pubs beginning with the letter 'B'. Can you think of any more?








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On This Day - 8th April


8th  1914  New Halifax sanatorium  at Shelf for the treatment of consumptive patients opened

8th  1918  Meat rationing started in Hx
8th  1926  Mayoress of Halifax and friends in car smash near Tadcaster. One of them killed
8th  1931  Gift of drinking fountain to Luddenden Foot by Mr Bernard Clay
8th  1934  Foundation stone laid for new Roman Catholic church at Underbank, Sowerby Bridge
8th  1944  Siddal Bottom mil destroyed by fire

8th  1948  Halifax Picture House operator Richard Farrar, aged 25, killed in a fire in the projection room

8th  1967  New £250,000 Westgate redevelopment scheme opened in Elland
8th  1972  Death of Mr Albert Edward Broadbent, Delight Farm, Barkisland, founder of local haulage firm

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