See
James Lee,
Robert Taylor and
Watergate, Hipperholme
Recorded in 1914
It takes its name from the fields where the wooden tenters were
placed on which the cloth from Longbottom Fulling Mills was
stretched.
The ford across the Calder here may have been used by the Romans.
See
Round House, Luddendenfoot and
Tenterfields Business Park, Luddendenfoot
Some of the buildings here are listed
The street ran parallel to Market Street and Union Street
from the bottom of Albion Street, across the bottom of
Westgate, the top of Blackledge, and into Horton Street.
The northern section was lost when Market Street and Westgate House, Halifax were redeveloped [1971]
The southern section – into Horton Street – still remains.
Henry Wadsworth was in business on Thomas Street [1866] and
he built new premises dated HW AD 1870
Question:
Does anyone know anything about banana-ripening which was carried on
in a building here in the 1970s?
See
Leadenhall Street, Halifax,
Moorgate Street, Halifax and
Thorn Tree, Halifax
that a furniture cart belonging to Simpson & Sons Limited, of
Halifax, crashed through fencing and into the river at Thistle
Bottom, Hebden Bridge