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The Follies of Halifax Corporation

Over the years, Halifax Corporation and its various successors have made a number of decisions which can only be described as folly, faux pas, Philistine and barbaric, and just unpopular and short-sighted:

Abraham Ormerod Clinic, Todmorden Art Gallery Trust Atlas Mill Waste Disposal Bankfield, Halifax Belle Vue, Halifax Clare Hall School, Halifax Clare Hall, Halifax Firth fountain, Bailiff Bridge Hardcastle Crags High Sunderland, Halifax Hodgson's Fold, Halifax Illingworth Gaol Jackson Room

Jumples House, Mixenden Kilmeny Kirby Leas, Halifax Joseph Bentley Leyland Manor Heath Mansion, Halifax Moot Hall, Halifax Northgate End Chapel, Halifax Nutclough Estate, Hebden Bridge Oddfellows' Hall, Halifax Palace Theatre, Halifax The People's Park, Halifax Piece Hall, Halifax

The Rydings, Brighouse Saint Mary's Church, Halifax Shay House, Halifax The Shay, Halifax Shibden Grange Michael Holroyd Smith Square Congregational Church, Halifax Square Independent Chapel, Halifax The Square, Halifax Tin Mission, Hebden Bridge Warley House Well Head House, Halifax Wellesley Barracks, Halifax Wellesley Barracks, Halifax West View Park War Memorial

With hindsight, it may be felt that some of these were misguided, unsound, unwise, and it is to be hoped that there might be a different outcome if the same decisions were to be made today. Perhaps that is folly too!

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