Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 100731)
Park Lodge Housing Scheme, Ovenden Way, Halifax, West Yorkshire. Approx 1936.
Author: Jack Townsend
Date: 1936
Location: Ovenden
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 100731
Library ID: 082265
Two photographs from c. 1936 showing construction of the site for Park Lodge Housing Scheme: one of digger filling truck with soil and with worker(s) around, the second showing masonry and cement mixers ready for work to begin.
Ovenden is a district of Calderdale to the north of Halifax. It was the first place municipal housing developed in Halifax after World War I, and continued in phases until well after World War II. In 1946, Halifax Council planned to build housing, schools and other facilities at Ovenden. Since the 1950s, much of Ovenden has been developed into housing estates.
This photo is by Jack Townsend of the Halifax Photographic Society.
