Halifax Almanack and Parish Year Book for 1865
The Halifax Almanack and Parish Year Book for 1865.
Author: Unknown
Date: 1865
Location: Halifax
Format: Almanac
Document ID: 101021
Library ID: 27916895
This almanack contains 145 pages of municipal details, local events and advertisements:
p1: Cover page.
p3: Title page.
p5: Cab and Hansom Fares.
p7-29: Calendar of Local Events (odds only).
p31: Town Council members 1864-5.
p33: Application to Parliament for Borough boundary extension.
p35: Albert Memorial.
p36-7: Ground and first floor plans of Town Hall.
p39: Notes on Town Hall opened previous year.
p41: Post Office; Borough and West Riding MPs; Fire at Colne Bridge 1818.
p43,45: Carriers.
p47: Borough and Riding JPs; Commissioners of Taxes; Municipal and Parochial Memoranda.
p49: Orphan School and Home; Eclipses and changes of the moon.
p51,53: Gibbet Law and a "dramatic fragment based on the gibbet".
p55: Newspapers.
p57,59,61: Halifax Parliamentary Elections; West Riding Parliamentary Elections.
p61: Bradfield and Holmfirth Reservoirs.
p63,65: A Halifax Engineer's Views on Railways Thirty Years Ago.
p67-91: Companion to the Calendar - Local Occurrences, &c. (odds only).
p93: Boundary of Borough of Halifax - Proposed Extension.
p95: Halifax Waterworks' Extension Scheme.
p97: Sowerby Bridge Water Supply.
p99: Guardians; Halifax Union.
p101: Overseers of the Poor; Elland Local Board of Health.
p103: Sowerby Bridge Local Board of Health and Burial Board; Wadsworth Local Board of Health.
p105: Barkisland Board of Health; Rastrick Board of Health; Rishworth Board of Health.
p107: Midgley Board of Health; Warley Board of Health; Soyland Board of Health.
p109: Shelf Local Board of Health; Officers of Halifax Corporation.
p111: Officers of 2nd W Y Yeomanry Cavalry; Halifax Volunteer Rifle Corps; 6th West York Militia; Enrolled Pensioners.
p113: Halifax Mechanics' Institution; Halifax Working Men's Institute; Halifax Choral Society; Halifax Glee and Madrigal Society; Halifax Temperance Society; Halifax Temperance Society's Band of Hope; Halifax Band of Hope Union; Halifax Auxiliary to the United Kingdom Alliance; Inspectors of Weights and Measures.
p115: Halifax Chamber of Commerce; Halifax Exchange and News-Room Committee; Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway; Halifax Town Missions; Halifax Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society; Halifax Sunday School Union; Surrogates Within the Parish; Halifax Parish Churchwardens; Registrar of Births and Deaths for Halifax and Skircoat; Registrars of Marriages within the Halifax Union.
p117: Coroner for Halifax and District; Factory Inspectors for the Halifax District; Sheriff's Officers for Halifax and District; Halifax and Caldervale Agricultural Association; Skircoat Horticultural and Floral Society; Halifax Horticultural and Floral Society;. Halifax Infirmary and Dispensary; Halifax School of Art; Halifax Ragged School.
p119: Halifax County Court and Bankruptcy Court; Borough Rates and Assessment 1864-5.
p121,123: Crimes, &c. in the Borough of Halifax.
p123: Cabinet Ministers.
p125,127: Halifax Railway Schemes.
p129: Statistics of Co-operative Societies in Halifax; Halifax Corporation Water Charges for Trade Purposes; Progress of the Borough of Halifax.
p131: Register Office for Births and Deaths in Halifax and Skircoat.
All other pages (mostly even numbered) are advertisements.
