halifax

Mecca Bingo Halifax was a bingo hall in a striking Art Deco building on the corner of Broad Street and Orange Street (HX1 1YA), on the edge of Halifax town centre. Built as the Odeon Cinema by architect George Coles, it opened in June 1938 with 2,058 seats. Its distinctive façade featured...

My son and I explored Lee Bank Tunnel in Halifax during April, one of the surviving railway structures on the former Great Northern Railway Queensbury Lines. Opened in 1879, the tunnel once carried trains between Halifax and Holmfield before the railway closed in the 20th century. Today, the...

Did the most of this explore last year but returned this year to tidy up some unfinished bits that i had missed . Always been on my to do list this one had a ride up on motorbike first to see if i could get past the elaborate grill that had been constructed over the opening then returned to...

Only my second outing this year as im sure you are all aware the weather has not been to kind to us drainers , but with a bank holiday and dry weather over the weekend it would have been a chance missed not to get out . following on downstream from my last explore i decided to have a nosy at the...

First explore of the year found me up at Halifax on a cold January morning ,They have had a dusting of snow up here so got wrapped up accordingly . I was here to check out the Strines beck and a possible culverted section of it Entrance was at the cross roads of Holdsworth road and Brow lane...

I was in the area and I seen I had the swimming baths pinned, once I was inside I made way for the main section of the building which was going to be the swimming pool itself, it was very stripped and signs up saying demolition in progress so it was clear it's getting demod very soon, so away I...

The Halifax Swimming Pool building at Skircoat Road. Calderdale Council shut it down in 2021 due to severe structural deterioration. “This has resulted in a review being undertaken of all leisure facilities in Halifax to determine the most appropriate and cost effective solution.what a crazy...

Halifax Swimming Baths The mosaic, a mid-1960s ceramic mural titled British Pond Life by Kenneth Barden, features in the wall of the old Halifax Swimming Baths at Skircoat Road. At the moment the building is closed, having ceased to operate through the pandemic and it was earmarked for...

Background & History: The Halifax Swimming Pool building at Skircoat Road. Calderdale Council shut it down in 2021 due to severe structural deterioration. “This has resulted in a review being undertaken of all leisure facilities in Halifax to determine the most appropriate and cost effective...

April 2023 I visited this one with @stranton after seeing the excellent report from @Esoteric Eric last month. We spent about an hour wandering around this vast building which never seemed to end and it quickly became apparent that it was in a very poor state with every surface and floor...

The Theatre Royal, a replacement of an earlier theatre, opened in 1904/5 purely for live entertainment. A superb façade in ashlar stone in the Edwardian style dates from this period, and was designed by Richard Horsfall & Son of Halifax. The 1,900-seat auditorium, believed to have been on 4...

I saw soon goon blasting this all over Facebook/Insta, including access, wide open. So as with anything like this these days you need to get on em quick. So we did. Visited with @Ferret @scrappy and 2 non members, also bumped into a few well known faces off here too. Good to see you all...

Wheatley Tunnel - 819yds. Explored August 2021. ^^^^Above image shows the track alignment (Highlighted “Wheatley Tunnel“ with a blue line) Constructed in 1890 Wheatley Tunnel is 819 yards in length and was located on the 3 mile spur from Holmfield junction immediately south of Holmfield...

Lee Bank Tunnel, Halifax - 267yds August 2021. Lee Bank Tunnel was one of many tunnels in the Halifax area, It was relatively short at 267 yards in length and is near to the Old Lane Tunnel sometimes referred to as Woodside Tunnel, both were located on the Queensbury - Halifax section, known...

Bit late to the table with this thread but as I’ve done the research I’ll post anyway... I have been concentrating on the Great Northern Railway’s Keighley to Bradford & Keighley to Halifax routes including the spur to St Paul’s at Holmfield. This is just a brief roundup of the accessibility of...