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Towards the Present
By 1900 much of the present distinctive landscape
of Calderdale had been formed. In Halifax, subsequent building
activity supplemented and modified the late Victorian townscape,
but made no fundamental impact on the urban plan that had evolved
during the period 1750-1900. The ‘conurbation’ had expanded to cover the larger part of the ancient township and adjacent areas,
and its population had risen to over 100,000 (see census data).
 Since
1750 Halifax had undergone a dramatic transformation – from that of a pre-industrial market town at the heart of a domestic woollen
manufacturing district to that of a major urban centre engaged
in a diverse range of factory-based activities – and the social, cultural, commercial and municipal dimensions of this industrial
revolution received their most striking visual expression in
the rich and varied architecture and rapidly changing topography
of the late Victorian mill town.
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