Cow Green with a group of taverns
Drawing of Cow Green, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.R. Oddy
Date: 1906
Location: Halifax
Format: Drawing
Document ID: 100849
Library ID: 14313753
Drawing [poss 1890s] by H.R. Oddy of Cow Green with a group of taverns that are still standing today [2003]. The existence of numerous taverns here is due to the fact that on this Green the Cattle and Pig Markets were formerly held. It is about here that the Gibbet originally stood before being removed to its present site. The Craven Heifer and the King's Head taverns were demolished in the late 1960s and the area redeveloped in the 1970s.
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.
