The houses here look onto the car park by St Martin's Church.
The car park and the grassy area beyond were created when the rows of
back-to-back houses there –
including Barton Street
- were demolished in the 1970s
Areas called Lower Hal and Upper Hal are here in the
late 19th century.
See
Far View House
The flats were built when old mine shafts prevented new housing
being built when the nearby New Bank area was cleared
It was built in the 1700s as a part of the growing turnpike
construction, replacing the earlier road to Bradford which went up
Range Bank and over Swalesmoor.
All Souls' Church and Bankfield House are to be found here.
A Plug Riot took place as a mob passed through here in 1842, when
one man was shot dead and several others were injured
Beerhouses & Pubs in Haley Hill, Halifax
See
Cross Platts Quarry, Southowram and
Halfpenny Can, Southowram
See
Hebden Bridge to Lees Turnpike and
Lee Bridge Toll Bar, Halifax
Some early 18th century cottages – numbers
108-112,
190,
192,
and
194
- are listed.
A part of the road is said to be haunted by a phantom hitchhiker.
See
Miles Sharp,
Smith Art Gallery & Library and
Rydings, Brighouse
Owners and tenants of the property have included
In 1815, the Mytholmroyd Bridge & Blackstone Edge Turnpike was
built to link Mytholmroyd.
See
Commercial Street Bar, Hebden Bridge and
King Street Bar, Hebden Bridge
A cloth hall for selling linen – known as Halifax Blackwell Hall – is mentioned in 1572, earlier than those in neighbouring
towns.
The lord of the manor imposed a levy of 1d per piece of cloth.
The hall was rebuilt here as the Linen Hall around 1700.
All the old buildings of Hall End and Copper Street were demolished
in 1865 for the construction of the Halifax Commercial Banking Company Limited building which is now occupied by Lloyds Bank.
This is discussed in the book
the collection of Prints by J. R. Smith.
See
James Lister
Later it was divided into several houses: Number 2 Hall Street
and Numbers 3, 4 & 5 Sladden Street.
The Street is named for Jonathan Hall.
Some of the buildings here are listed
See
Halifax Corporation Cleansing Department and
Hall Street Livery Stables, Halifax
See
Todmorden Hall
See
William Illingworth and
West End Tailoring Establishment, Halifax
See
Hanging Stones Farm, Ripponden
See
Jack Taylor's Garden, Hebden Bridge
The street and its houses were lost when the area was redeveloped in the 1970s
when the Lüdenscheid Link was constructed
.
A trace of the street still remains behind the former Brighouse
Co-operative Stores and other shops in King Street.
See
Barton's Yard, Brighouse and
Royal Engineers, Brighouse
See
Hanson Lane bomb