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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.

Archive feature

An old mill near Clark Bridge.

An old mill near Clark Bridge. Drawing by H.R. Oddy of an old mill below Clark Bridge. Clark Bridge crosses the Hebble Brook at Bank Bottom and its name refers to the clergy who crossed over the bridge to the Parish Church. The bridge was also the boundary of Halifax's Gibbet Law jurisdiction. The mill is now demolished.




Image taken from "The Yorkshire Coiners 1767-1783. And Notes on Old and Prehistoric Halifax" by H. Ling Roth, Honorary Curator of Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Published in Halifax in 1906 by F. King & Sons, Ltd.




Henry Raphael Oddy (1852 - 1907) produced landscapes, topographical and architectural pictures in watercolour, pastel and pencil. He was initially a carpet designer, and suffered long periods of paralysis of the limbs. He took up professional painting in 1890 and was a founder member of the Halifax Art Society. Brother-in-law to Halifax painter Richard E. Nicholson.