At the rear of 247 Saddleworth Road, there is a crudely-carved stone
inscribed
to commemorate the floods of
16th November 1866
See
Jolly Sailor, Sowerby Bridge
The local Pace Egg Play is performed here.
In 2008, a modern sculpture – a 10 ft high replica of a
fustian-cutter's knife – was installed in the square.
Some of the buildings here are listed
See
Hebden Royd Council Offices
See
Giles House
The City was here.
See
Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church, Halifax,
St James's Road Turkish Baths, Halifax and
Stannary, Halifax
Some of the buildings here are listed
House Number 2, St John's Lane is known as St John's House
See
Cading's Croft, Halifax and
Esau Hanson
Collinson's tea warehouse
and
the Freemasons' Hall
stood here
Ran north-east between St Thomas Street, Claremount and Parsonage Street, Claremount.
The street and its houses were lost when Claremount Road and
New Bank were redeveloped in the 1960s
Owners and tenants have included
Rev George Edward Aspinall owned property here and elsewhere in
Southowram [1922].
In 1930, a report to the Highways Committee of Southowram Council
said that
Many of the buildings here are listed
Recorded in 1872.
Running north-east off St Thomas Street and into Parsonage Street, Claremount were:
The street and its houses were lost when Claremount Road and
New Bank were redeveloped in the 1960s
Many of the buildings here are listed
Recorded in 1891
This is part of the main road from Halifax to Huddersfield, which comprises Ward's End, Commercial Street, Portland Place, Prescott Street, Skircoat Road, Spring Hall,, Huddersfield Road, Salterhebble Hill, Huddersfield Road, Elland Wood Bottom, Halifax Road and Calderdale Way.
Motorists travelling from the M62 and Huddersfield to Halifax will
be aware of its steep and twisting ascent into the town.
In 1903, the gradient of the hill was reported to be 1 in 9.69.
This was significant for the growing tramway system.
Because of the gradient, the Tramways Committee considered installing
a large lift to raise the tramcars from Salterhebble
to Dudwell.
J. H. Whitley visited the USA where similar lifts were in use.
In 1842, a band of Chartists was involved in an affray at the
bottom of Salterhebble Hill – see
the Foldout
and
Plug Riots and
The Struggles of an Old Chartist
Many buildings here are listed
There is a water supply trough set into a wall here
Great Flood Nov: 16 1866
surrounding the Square were 14 houses, the occupants of which had to
share 6 lavatories.
Each house had a sink draining into 2 gullies, and there were 12
gullies in the yard,
All these gullies drained away to the old quarry workings.
The lavatories were distinctly objectionable and it would be
impossible to convert them because the sewer, running only 6 yards
away, was higher than the level of the lavatories