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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.

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Ryburne-Valley Almanack and Register of Local & General Information for the year 1869.

Ryburne-Valley Almanack and Register of Local & General Information for the year 1869. 17 pages from The Ryburne-Valley Almanack and Register of Local & General Information, 1869.




p 1:    Preface; Notice.




p 2:    Population of the District, &c; "Six and Eightpence".




p 3:    The Hollingworth Prophet; An Acrostic on the Same. [poems]




p 4:    Swift Cross Spa; Enigma; Werriton John.




p 5:    Local Occurrences, &c.




p 6:    Adverts for John Hardy (Furniture), Howarth Hall (Leather Dealer and Practical Currier), E Wilkinson (Hair Cutter and Perfumer).




p 7:    Advert for John Eastwood (Tailor).




p 8:    Adverts for J Ainley (Boots and Shoes), W S Fitton (Clock and Watch Maker).




p 9:    Advert for A Bazaar at the Wesleyan School-Room, Ripponden. [with poem]




p 10-11:    Advert for H & S Barraclough (Music Sellers and Stationers).




p 12:    Advert for Walton & Scott (Genuine Drug and Patent Medicine).




p 13:    Adverts for E Dixon (Confectioner), Frank Nichol (Bookseller, General Stationer).




p 14:    Advert for John Mortimer (Tailor).




p 15:    "Sorrows Remembered Sweeten Present Joy".




p 16:    Social Life - Its Law and Liberty.




p 17:    "Nothing Is A Trifle On Which Happiness Depends".