Sunday, January 10, 2016

From The Archives : Halifax Piece Hall (1966)

Lower Westgate and Halifax Piece Hall : c. 1966 - Alan Burnett

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4 comments:

  1. Joanne Noragon2:05 PM

    "Originally built for the trading of the pieces of cloth..."
    How interesting to see it sporting drying laundry. It seems to have been renovated and preserved for these modern times.

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  2. Georgina9:34 PM

    Is that some escaped laundry lying in the street?

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  3. Red11:16 PM

    1966 was certainly a different age...telephone wires? washing on the line?

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  4. Far Side of Fifty3:14 AM

    Laundry on the ground...kind of unsettling for someone with OCD:)

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