From Weaver to Web: Online visual archive of Calderdale History
Welcome to the online visual archive of Calderdale history. It gives you access to over 23,000 images, with supporting historical information.
The Calderdale area includes the towns of Halifax, Brighouse, Elland, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden.
From Weaver to Web provides access to a wide range of materials. These may be very useful to local and family historians interested in this area.
You will find photographs, postcards, maps, trade directories, handbills and many other types of historical sources.
Archive feature
Greaves Photography
This advertisement is taken from the handbook for the 1936 Halifax Shopping Festival and Exhibition. The festival was an annual event that was organised by the Halifax Chamber of Trade to promote various goods and services to the people of Halifax. The handbook, which was published to accompany the event carried advertisements for the many businesses who would be exhibiting at the festival.
One of the companies to exhibit was Greaves photography, which was run by a Mr Clement William Greaves. Clement William Greaves was a local photographer who operated from 43 Commercial Street, Halifax.
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- Anne Lister Inspired Writing Workshop Zine
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- Fielden Family Tree
- Anti Poor Law Riots, November 1838
- The Mankinholes Riot, November 1838 - testimony of Charles Ratcliffe
- The Mankinholes Riot, November 1838 - proceedings at the White Hart Inn (27th December 1838)
- Aftermath of the Mankinholes Riot - William Greenwood fined
- The Mankinholes Riot - William Greenwood's petition to the House of Commons
- Defrauding of the tolls, 1830
- The Mankinholes Riot - Magistrates meeting at Todmorden, 27th December 1838
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World War One local newspapers
Browse or search the Halifax Weekly Courier 1914-1918 for news from the area we now know as Calderdale...
