Ward's Hall
Drawing of Ward's Hall, Ward's End, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.R. Oddy
Date: 02 May 1890
Location: Halifax
Format: Drawing
Document ID: 100835
Library ID: 14313753
Drawing by H.R. Oddy of Ward's Hall which stood on the site of the former Regal/ABC/Cannon Cinema at Ward's End. The drawing of the fountain in the left foreground is left unfinished. The Hall was demolished sometime in the early 1900s to make way for Halifax's first bus station. This too was dismantled in the 1930s and the cinema was erected in 1938.
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.
