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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