Many of the fine old buildings of Halifax you can look up and discover their history, their architectural merit, and their importance to the cultural landscape. of the town. Others you can just look up at and say: "My goodness, that's a fine old building!"
History is so often written into the very fabric of buildings, but it is also ingrained in the function of the building itself. This glorious building on Southgate, Halifax has, over the years, been home to the offices of a canal company, the William Morris Wallpaper Company and the Hoover Cleaning Company. Now it is half empty and half a charity shop. Discuss.
My little mini-series featuring some of the buildings of Halifax, photographed during my walk last week, ends where it started with the offices of the Halifax Building Society. This isn't the nineteenth-century Victorian building featured on Monday, however, but the modern plate glass and concrete building at the other end of town.
I seem to have ended up with another mini-series this week, and it is all about the seaside. Most northern industrial towns would have a traditional "Wakes Week" about this time of the year, when the mills and factories would close down and the workers would head for the seaside. My Wakes Week starts with a photo I took in Eastbourne forty-odd years ago.
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