Waggoners' Inn, Yorks, 1837
Print of the Waggoners Inn, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: J. R. Smith
Date: 1837
Location: Halifax
Format: Print
Document ID: 100461
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Joseph Rideal Smith was born in 1837 at the Waggoners Inn, which was on the top side of Northgate. He studied as an architect, but due to ill health returned to Halifax in 1870, gaining employment at the Duke of Bedford's estate. After this he worked as the town's first sanitary inspector, he had great influence in building the Halifax goyte* system. He married Miss Empsall of Craven Edge in 1873 and they had one daughter. Smith died in 1915.
After showing one of his sepia drawings based on an old photograph to Alderman Ramsden of the Waggoners Inn, Ramsden was so impressed that he encouraged Smith's work. Smith went on to produce a set of prints bound into books with the original print on the front cover.
*goyte - man-made underground passage to channel water.
