General View, Bradshaw
View of agricultural land around Bradshaw, near Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Bradshaw
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 100153
Library ID: 34599654
Bradshaw is a village situated to the north-east of Halifax. Originally a mining village, many people moved away when the pits were exhausted. But in the second half of the 20th century the village was transformed with a new housing estate built in 1966, along with a village hall.
It is believed that the walls in Bradshaw were built after the Ovenden Enclosures Act of the 1830s.
Predominant landmarks in the village are The Golden Fleece Public House and the school, built in the late 1870s.
The vicarage is one of the oldest in the Wakefield diocese, dating from around 1850. The building was sold off in the early 1990s to make way for a new vicarage.
