Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout

Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge

Contents:

General Points
Property in Wharf Street
Listed Buildings in Wharf Street
Beerhouses & Pubs in Wharf Street

General Points

The name is sometimes incorrectly written Wharfe Street.

It was created around 1791, replacing the earlier Back Wharf Street and Old Causeway.

This is the main street through Sowerby Bridge.

At the western end, it becomes Town Hall Street.

The street was first lit by gas in 1854

Property in Wharf Street

The occupants of the properties here have included

Unknown Address:
- Cash Supply Stores Limited
- F. & J. Shackleton
- Madame Ibbetson's Dancing School, Halifax
- William Newsome [18??]
- Bank Foundry, Sowerby Bridge [1786]
- Longbottom Mill, Sowerby Bridge [1800s]
- William Haigh Limited [1800s]
- Carlton Mill, Sowerby Bridge [1830s]
- Abraham Fielding [1850s]
- James Clay [1851]
- William Gill [1851]
- Samuel Mattock [1851]
- William Newsome & Sons Limited [1860s]
- Richard Foxton [1861]
- John Hainsworth [1861]
- Law's Seminary, Sowerby Bridge [1861]
- Orrell House, Sowerby Bridge [1861]
- Thomas Robertshaw [1861]
- George Thompson [1861]
- James Borfield Turner [1861]
- Richard Wood [1861]
- John Turner [1863]
- Centre Mills, Sowerby Bridge [1870]
- James Baldwin [1871]
- Bank Brewery, Sowerby Bridge [1871]
- William Barrett [1871]
- John William Helm [1871]
- James Smith Horsfall [1874]
- Thomas Lloyd [1874]
- P. Augustine Synnott [1874]
- Williams & Heron [1874]
- Emanuel Uttley [1881]
- James Workman [1881]
- Albert Clay [1890s]
- Shackleton's Clock, Sowerby Bridge [1904]
- Central Works, Sowerby Bridge [1905]
- Christadelphian Hall, Sowerby Bridge [1905]
- Lafayette Ratcliffe [1905]
- Sowerby Bridge Mill [1905]
- Gunn's Confectioners [1910]
- Electric Cinema, Sowerby Bridge [1917]
- The Gath Electrical Engineering Company [1920]
- Ryburn Garage Transport Company Limited [1925]
- Nicholl & Wood [1930s]
- Essoldo Cinema, Sowerby Bridge [1949]
- Sowerby Bridge Post Office [1990]
Number 8:
- William Strathearn Keddie [1897]
Number 9:
- John Denison [1861]
Number 10:
- Manoah Ackroyd [1891]
Number 11:
- Thomas Edward Golding [1905]
Number 21:
- Jonathan Utley [1851]
Number 25:
- William Gledhill [1901]
Number 26:
- John Uttley [1851]
Number 40:
- Albert Webster [1917]
Number 41:
- Thomas Tidswell [1901]
Number 45:
- William Jessop Storer [1891]
Number 47:
- Percival Shackleton [1871]
- Julian Shackleton [1911]
Number 52:
- Wallace's Limited [1902]
Number 61:
- John Henry Shoesmith [1915]
Number 67:
- Joseph Whiteley [1900]
Number 68:
- Hannah Jagger [1891]
Number 88:
- Owen Shaw & Company [1905]

Beerhouses & Pubs in Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge

Several beerhouses and public houses have been recorded in and around Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge, including

See Back Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge, Carlton Mill: Chimney, Old Causeway, Sowerby Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Gas Works, Tuel Lane, Sowerby Bridge, Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge: Listed Buildings and Willow Hall Mills, Sowerby Bridge

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