West View Park, Halifax (Document ID: 100077)
View of balustrade and Boer War monument, West View Park, Highroad Well, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Halifax
Format: Postcard - Colour
Document ID: 100077
Library ID: 34560807
West View Park is situated high on the hillside on Highroad Well Moor, with views over Calderdale. Previously the land had been part of the Manor of Skircoat, with mineral rights and quarries owned by Lord Saville and common land rights for the locals.
The land was given to the Halifax Corporation by local mill-owners and magistrates Henry Charles McCrea (Mayor of Halifax 1869-1871) and Enoch Robinson (Mayor of Halifax 1904-1905). The park was opened in 1897.
Soon after the turn of the century the balustrade depicted was erected at the top of the park. It had once been part of Halifax Town Hall, but was removed to ease traffic congestion on Town Hall Street East.
Visible at the top is the war memorial to 73 soldiers who fell in the South African or Boer Wars which was unveiled in 1904. An elaborate stone structure with bronze tablets, it has a circular upper stage of polished granite supporting a standing bronze figure of a soldier.
The memorial is a grade II listed monument.
[undated, 1904-1937]
