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From Weaver to Web: Online visual archive of Calderdale History

Welcome to the online visual archive of Calderdale history, giving access to over 23,000 images, accompanied by supporting historical information.

The Calderdale area includes the towns of Halifax, Brighouse, Elland, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden.

From Weaver to Web provides access to a wide range of material which may be particularly useful to local and family historians interested in this area.

You will find photographs and postcards, maps, trade directories and handbills, among many other types of historical sources.

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Canon

Military associations with Calderdale

Early illustrations of Halifax show soldiers in the streets dressed in their scarlet coats and white or buff breeches and wearing cocked hats...