Municipal Technical College Halifax
Aerial view of Technical College, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Halifax
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 100056
Library ID: 34561391
This aerial shot of the Technical College also shows Peoples Park to the top right.
Technical education in Halifax started with the Mechanics Institute in 1825, first at Woolshops and then at Square Road.
The present building for the Halifax Technical College was built by Benjamin Whitehead Jackson in 1895, offering training skills.
After extensive building work, Percival Whitley College was opened on 25th September 1957 on the same site by Sir John Wolfenden, C.B.E., Vice Chairman of Reading University. It offered courses in subjects such as heating engineering, motor mechanics and design work.
The Princess Mary High School opened in 1931 closed in 1984 when it merged with Highlands School. The building was taken over by Percival Whitley College, later becoming Calderdale College. Halifax New College, and Halifax School of Integrated Arts, these institutions were more recently combined to create Calderdale College.
The municipal technical college building shown is now demolished and new buildings housing the College have been built on the site.
