West View Park, Halifax (Document ID: 100078)
View of people and the balustrade in West View Park, Highroad Well, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Halifax
Format: Postcard - Colour
Document ID: 100078
Library ID: 34560794
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.
Presumably, the picture is from before 1904 as there is no sign of the Boer War Memorial erected in that year.
