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From Weaver to Web: Online visual archive of Calderdale History

Welcome to the online visual archive of Calderdale history. It gives you access to over 23,000 images, with 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 materials. These may be very useful to local and family historians interested in this area.

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

Archive feature

Robinson's Halifax & District Directory 1905-6.

Robinson's Halifax & District Directory 1905-6. First (and only?) issue of "Robinson's Halifax & District Dictionary, also including Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Elland, Hipperholme, Lightcliffe, Greetland, &c. 1905-6".




N.B. the page numbers of the document do not necessarily correlate with the page numbers of the directory. The General Index is on p5 which will provide some way of navigating around this 638-page directory.




pp11-352    Halifax. Council officers, Judiciary, Members of Parliament, local services and institutions, Post Office and Carriers, Street Directory, and Alphabetical Directory (by surname).




pp353-400    Todmorden. Town Council, local services and institutions, Post, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory (by surname).

pp401-418    Hebden Bridge. Council, local services and institutions, Post, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory (by surname).




pp419-446    Sowerby Bridge. Council, local services and institutions, Post, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory (by surname).




pp447-469    Elland. Council, local services and institutions, Post, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory (by surname).




pp470-478    Hipperholme. Council, local services and institutions, Post, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory (by surname).




pp479-478    Lightcliffe. Council, local services and institutions, Post, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory (by surname).




pp479-520    Halifax District Directory incl Bailiff Bridge, Barkisland, Blackshaw, Booth, Coley, Erringden, Greetland, Heptonstall, Holywell Green, Luddenden, Luddendenfoot, Midgley, Mytholmroyd, Norland, Norwood Green and Coley, Ripponden, Rishworth, Southowram, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland, Stile, Triangle, Wadsworth, West Vale (arranged by surname).




pp521-638    Halifax and District Trades Directory. Trades arranged alphabetically.