Ratton Row
Drawing of Ratton Row, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.R. Oddy
Date: 1906
Location: Halifax
Format: Drawing
Document ID: 100843
Library ID: 14313753
Drawing by H.R. Oddy of Ratton Row near Halifax Parish Church, probably very late 1890s or very early 1900s. The street is no longer in existence.
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.
