Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 100725)
Four photographs from 1966 of Boothtown House and surrounding streets in Boothtown, Halifax.
Author: H.C. Morris
Date: 1966
Location: Boothtown
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 100725
Library ID: 087268
Much of this area of 'old' Boothtown was demolished in the late 1960s as part of the Boothtown redevelopment. Boothtown House or Mansion and some of the buildings on the north side of Hall St. North are still standing [2003] and are Grade II listed buildings.
p1: Nos. 7 to 11 Sladden Street, 1966. These are examples of single-storey workers' dwelling houses from the early 19th century. Though narrow, each unit was quite long, and may have also been used as workshops; one house in 1898 was occupied by a boot makers. Now demolished. (see also Doc 100676p00012,15,18)
p2: Hall St. North from the east; Boothtown House at far end, No. 12 Leyland St. on left, 1966. The houses on Leyland St. are now demolished. The buildings with the arched windows are from late 18th century or, more probably, early 19th century, and were probably used for domestic manufacture and as dwelling houses by more affluent folk than those on Sladden St. A Grade II listed building.
p3: No. 3 Hall Street North (Boothtown House) - 17th century - not for demolition, 1966. The Mansion is typical of a West Riding yeoman clothier's house of the early 17th century, built by a John Priestley, cloth merchant, who made his fortune in London before returning to Halifax. The house then passed to the Hall family, who were responsible for setting up the Booth Town Charity, building almshouses and school in the area in 1802. In the 20th century, the house belonged to Percy Shaw, the man who invented 'cat's eyes' in the 1930s, and who continued to live the live of a frugal millionaire in the Mansion until his death in 1976. His firm, Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd., owned the House and the factory buildings adjacent. After uncertainty over its state and future in the 1970s, the house has been completely restored.
p4: Waterloo Street, 1966. An example of 19th century workers' housing in a street over the other side of Mill Lane from Hall Street North and Sladden Street. Now demolished.
These photos were taken by H C Morris of the Halifax Photographic Society.
