Nag's Head The Bacchus Sign, King Street The Turks Head
Drawings of sculptured pub signs, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.R. Oddy
Date: 1906
Location: Halifax
Format: Drawing
Document ID: 100853
Library ID: 14313753
Drawings [poss 1890s] by H.R. Oddy of the sculptured pub signs of The Nags Head (King Cross Lane), The Bacchus Inn (King Street) and The Turks Head (Old Market).
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.
