Halifax is situated eight miles southwest of Bradford, and twelve miles nearly south of Keighley, on the western declivity of a deep valley. The town is about three quarters of a mile in length from east to west, but extremely irregular in breadth; the streets are narrow and rather crooked, though the houses are in general well built, partly of stone, and partly of brick. The use of the latter material has only been brought into fashion since about the middle of the last century. But as stone is exceedingly plentiful in the environs of Halifax, it is difficult to conceive how brick can be the cheaper material. It seems that the inhabitants of Settle, Skipton, Keighley, Bradford, &c., make a different calculation. These towns, with the gentlemen’s houses, are almost entirely built of stone, and in the villages, scarcely any brick is to be seen, either in the most elegant mansions, or the meanest cottages. Whatever may be their reason, the people of Halifax, though living in a land of stone, seem to have a strong predilection for brick.

Halifax has a good market on Saturday, where, beside provisions, &c.; considerable quantities of woollen cloths of different kinds are sold. About the middle of the fifteenth century, Halifax is said to have consisted only of thirteen houses; but in 1566, the number had increased to 520, and since that time it has considerably more than trebled. Camden, who visited these parts about 1574, says the extensive parish of Halifax has under it, eleven chapels, two of which are parochial, and about 12,000 men in it; "whereas in the most populous and fruitful places of England elsewhere, one shall find thousands of sheep, but so few men in proportion, that one would think they had given place to sheep and oxen, or were devoured by them." The Calder navigation passes quite through the parish of Halifax, and within less than two miles of the town. It joins the Rochdale and Manchester canal, near Sowerby bridge, and thus opens to this manufacturing district, a communication by water, both with the eastern and western coast.

From the vast extent of this parish, it has been urged that for a long time after the Conquest it had been only a desert. The name of Halifax is not even mentioned in Doomsday-book, and it was no doubt that, on account of its unfruitfulness, there never was any monastery or religious house in the whole parish.

The church stands near the east end of the town, the choir directly fronting the entrance from Wakefield. It a large Gothic structure, sixty-four yards long and twenty in breadth, and is supposed to have been originally built by the Earl of Warren and Surrey, in the reign of Henry I. The remains of the nave of the old church are only sixty-six feet in length; and the chancel seems to have been an addition. The steeple is known to have been begun in 1450, and finished in 1470, by the munificence of the families of Saville and Lacy. This tower is well proportioned, and is said to be 117 feet in height from the ground to the top of the pinnacles. Rokeby’s chapel, on the south side, was erected according to the Will of Dr. William Rokeby, vicar of Halifax, and afterwards Archbishop of Dublin, who died Nov. 29, 1521, and ordered that his bowels and heart should be buried in the choir of this church, and that this chapel should be erected and used as a chantry. It is eleven yards and a quarter in length, and five and a quarter in breadth. The chapel on the south side of the church is above sixteen yards and a half in length, and about five and a quarter broad. An inscription says, that Robert Holdsworth, LL. D., the twelfth vicar, built it in the year 1554, at his own proper expence. To the twelve chapels in the parish, the vicar of Halifax appoints the curates; the chapels of Elland and Heptostell, however, enjoy the parochial privileges of burying! Nathaniel Waterhouse, of Skilcoat, salter, who died 1641, founded an almshouse in this town, for twelve old people; a blue-coat hospital for twenty poor children, the overseer whereof has 45l. per annum. He also bequeathed yearly salaries to the ministers of the several chapels, of 2l. 3l. 4l. and 5l.; a legacy to the free-school established by Queen Elizabeth, and a house for the lecturer. These bequests, with money for the repair of the banks, amount to 300l. per annum. The grammar-school in Skilcoat, founded by Queen Elizabeth, in 1585, is well endowed.

The shalloon trade was introduced into this town about the beginning of the last century, and what are called figured stuffs and draw-boys, within the latter half of it. Formerly much bone-lace was made in Halifax, but this trade afterwards declined, till it was again revived so as to become no inconsiderable branch. In the year 1724, framework-knitting was introduced, and much has been done in this line. But for some time past the staple manufacture of the place and neighbourhood has been tammies, shalloons, draw-boys, best known under the title of figured lastings, and Amen’s superfine quilled everlastings, double russets, and Serges de Nisme, and du Rome. These are all made from combing wool; and are brought in the unfinished state to the Piece-Hall, where the merchants attend every Saturday to purchase. Of these goods very few in proportion are sold inland, Large quantities go to all the European continent, and from thence to all parts of the globe. Many shalloons go by land to London, for the Levant trade.

Great quantities of kerseys, halfthicks, bookings and baize, are made in the neighbourhood of Sowerby. The whole of the British navy is clothed from this source. Large quantities are also in time of peace sent to Holland, and some to America, But the most flourishing branch of manufacture is that of cloth and coatings, introduced about twenty years ago, by a few persons of enter prize, who at a great expense erected mills on the Calder, and other smaller streams, the falls of water in this uneven country, being very favourable for the purpose.

For the convenience of trade, the manufacturers some years, since erected an elegant edifice, called the Piece-Hall, or Manufacturers’-Hall, at an expense of 12,000l. It is in the form of an oblong square, occupying ten thousand square yards, and containing three hundred and fifteen distinct rooms for the lodgement of goods which are exposed to sale once a week, only two hours on the market day, from 10 o’clock to 12. The form of this building is well adapted to its use, and unites elegance, convenience and security. The declivity of the ground, though not great, yet forming a large space, obliged the architect to raise one half of the building three, the other only two, stories high; but the avenues to the rooms being by a corridor, or piazza, supported by columns or pillars of different orders round the interior of the building, (the exterior being for greater security, a plain blank wall), a spectator placed in the centre of the area has a distinct view of every room in the building, which forms altogether a striking coup d'œil.

The market days at Halifax, besides the cloth market, are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays; but Halifax is not a market town by charter, but by prescription.

Halifax is in the centre of the woollen manufactory, and enjoys the benefit of water-carriage to Hull, along the Calder, from Sowerby-bridge in its vicinity, and its navigable communications have been much extended by the Rochdale Canal, which connects the Calder, at Sowerby-bridge, with the Duke of Bridgewater’s Canal at Manchester, and consequently includes the neighbourhood of Halifax in the general system of inland navigation.

Coals are found in various parts of this parish, which covers about 150 square miles, and contains twenty-six townships, or hamlets, and thirteen chapels of ease.

It is bounded by the parishes of Whalley, and Rochdale in Lancashire, on the west; by that of Bradford on the north; of Burstal on the east; and of Huddersfield on the south.

The manor of Halifax is a parcel of the very extensive one of Wakefield. Great part of it was anciently called the Liberty of the Forest of Sowerbyshire, or of Hardwick. Within this liberty a very singular custom long prevailed, called Halifax gibbet law. It consisted of a summary mode of trying, and capitally punishing, felons (apparently thieves only) taken within the liberties, with the goods found about them, or upon their own confession; and the mode of execution was beheading, by means of an instrument called a gibbet, consisting of two upright pieces of timber, joined by a transverse piece, within which was a square block of wood, sliding in grooves, worked in the uprights, and armed below with an iron axe; this being drawn up was let fall suddenly, either by pulling out a pin, or cutting a cord that supported it; and thus the malefactor’s head was at once struck off. An engine exactly of the same kind was for some time in use at Edinburgh, under the name of the Maiden; but whether this was the original or only a copy, is disputed. It was revived with improvements, in France, under the name of the too famous guillotine: which was supposed to have been an original invention of the person whose name it bears. With respect to this at Halifax, it seems to have been pretty freely used, especially after it became a manufacturing town, against the robbers of tenter-grounds. The last executions by it were in 1650; the practice was then put a stop to, the baiiiff being threatened with a prosecution if he should repeat it. Forty-nine persons had suffered by it, from the first entries in the register in the year 1541. A raised platform of stone, on which the gibbet was placed, is still remaining in Gibbet-lane.

Mr. Pennant gives the following account of this remarkable custom: "The time when this custom took place is unknown. Whether Earl Warren, lord of this forest, might have established it amongst the sanguinary laws then in use among the invaders of the hunting rights, or whether it might not take place after the woollen manufacturers at Halifax began to gain strength, is uncertain. The last is very probable; for the wild country around the town was inhabited by a lawless set, whose depredations on the cloth-tenters, might soon stifle the efforts of infant industry. For the protection of trade, and for the greater terror of offenders by speedy execution, this custom seems to have been established, so as at last to receive the force of the law; which was, "That if a felon be taken within the liberty of the Forest of Hardwick, with goods stolen out or within the said precincts, either hand-habend, back-berand, or confessioned, that is, having it in his hand, bearing it on his back, or confessing the fact. If to the value of thirteen pence halfpenny, he shall, after three market-days, or meeting-days, within the town of Halifax, next after such his apprehension, and being condemned, be taken to the gibbet, and there have his head cut from his body." "The offender had always a fair trial; for as soon as he was taken he was brought to the lord’s bailiff, at Halifax; he was then exposed on the three markets, (which here were held thrice in a week), placed in a stocks, with the goods stolen on his back; or, if the theft was of the cattle kind, they were placed by him; and this was done both to strike terror into others, and to produce new informations against him. The bailiff then summoned four freeholders of each town within the forest, to form, a jury. The felon and prosecutors were brought face to face; the goods, the cow, or horse, or whatsoever was stolen, produced. If he was found guilty he was remanded to prison, had a week’s time allowed for preparation, and then was conveyed to this spot, where his head was struck off by this machine."This privilege was freely used during the reign of Elizabeth; the records before that time were lost. Twenty-five suffered in her reign, and at least twelve from the year 1623 to 1650; after which, I believe, the privilege was no more exerted."This machine of death is now destroyed; but I saw one of the same kind in a room under the parliament house at Edinburgh, where it was introduced by the Regent Morton, who took a model of it as he passed through Halifax, and at length suffered by it himself.—It is in the form of a painter’s easel, and about ten feet high. At four feet from the bottom is a cross bar, on which the felon lays his head, which is kept down by another placed above. In the inner edges of the frames are grooves; in these is placed a sharp axe, with a vast weight of lead, supported at the very summit with a peg; to that peg is fastened a cord, which the executioner cutting, the axe falls, and does the affair effectually, without suffering the unhappy criminal to undergo a repetition of the stroke, as has been the case in the common method. If the sufferer is condemned for stealing a horse or a cow, the string is tied to the beast, which, on being whipped, pulls out the peg, and becomes the executioner." It seems that theft was very common in the neighbourhood of Halifax, and that the law was rigidly executed, especially when the comparatively small number of the population at that period is considered. The list of executions, indeed, as Mr. Watson observes, is so formidable, that there is no reason to wonder at the proverbial petition of thieves and vagabonds—"From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, good Lord deliver us." Among the celebrated persons who have been natives of Halifax, are Dr. John Tillotson, who afterwards became Archbishop of Canterbury; St. Henry Saville, a man highly skilled in the mathematics and the Greek language; and David Hartley M. A. a celebrated physician, who acquired a great reputation from his medical and metaphysical works, especially his Observations on Man, his Frame, Duties, and his Expectations, 1749.

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HALIFAX is a municipal and parliamentary borough, large market town and polling place for the Northern division of the Riding, in the extensive and populous parish to which it gives name; it ranks next to Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield, as a manufacturing town, and is situated on a gentle eminence rising from east to west and, shielded by a chain of hills from north-east to south-east, is the head of a union and county court district, in the wapentake of Morley, and gives name to a rural deanery in the archdeaconry of Craven, and diocese of Ripon: it is 7 miles south-west from Bradford, 16 ½ south-west from Leeds, 37 ¼ fro in Sheffield, 47 from Doncaster, 21 ½ from Rochdale, 13 north-east from Todmorden, 44 ¾ from York, 10 north-north-west from Huddersfield by rail and 7 by road, 16 north-west from Wakefield, 24 north-east from Manchester and 194 from London by road and 203 by railway.

Historians disagree as to the origin of the name of Halifax. Camden recites, that as the ancient chapel was dedicated to St. John the Baptist, styled the “Father of Hermits,” in which chapel was deposited the real face of St. John the Baptist, it was called Halifax, or Holy Face. Dr. Whitaker observes, “The name of Halifax is a mixture, half Saxon and half Norman: the four roads approaching the chapel denoted the four Holy Ways, or Halifax.” Many historians describe the few old rude wood and thatched houses which composed the ancient town, but which long since have given way to substantial stone mansions and paved and well-regulated streets, immense warehouses, and factories, which give employment to the greater portion of the working classes of the town. Many houses and even streets, in the centre of the town, are fast being supplanted by blocks of handsome buildings. One block, which is complete, consists of the premises of the Commercial Banking Company and large shops with the upper portions used as offices. The facilities tor trade are increased by the Calder and Hebble Navigation, and there is a station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, which on nearing the town passes through a tunnel three-quarters of a mile long. The Great Northern have a station at North Bridge, with a branch line to Bradford and Leeds: this company also has the use of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway to Bradford and Leeds.

Halifax was created a parliamentary borough by the Reform Act of 1832, and sends two members to Parliament; it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1848, under the Municipal Reform Act of 1835, and is in the manor of Wakefield; the municipal and parliamentary boroughs are co-extensive. The municipal borough is divided into ten wards, and is governed by a mayor, ten aldermen, and thirty councillors, divided into committees as follows:-The Finance Committee meet at the Town Hall every alternate Friday, to direct all business relating to the borough accounts; the Watch Committee every alternate Monday, for the management of matters relating to watching, lighting, paving, and hackney coaches; the Board of Works every alternate Wednesday for draining, building, and works in progress generally; the Waterworks and Improvement Committee every alternate Tuesday; the sanitary Committee every alternate Tuesday; and the General Purposes and Parliamentary Committee, to watch all bills before Parliament, and other matters where the interest of the borough is concerned.

The parish church of St. John the Baptist is a noble structure, situated at the east end of the town, and is supposed to have been erected on the site of the old chapel, in the twelfth century: the style of architecture is various, partly Pointed, and partly Perpendicular; and consists of chancel, nave, aisles (extending the whole length of the chancel and nave), north and south porches, and a square tower at the west-end, containing 13 bells and a clock with chimes: there are two side chapels; that on the north is 33 feet 9 inches long by 15 feet 9 inches broad; the opposite or south chapel is 49 feet 6 inches long and 15 feet 9 inches broad, the entire length of the church being 193 feet, by 60 feet in breadth; over the west entrance to the nave is the organ gallery, containing an instrument purchased by public subscription; on the south side is a stained window, erected in 1830 by Christopher Rawson esq.; the east window is also stained; several others have been inserted in the side chapels at the expense of the Waterhouse and Holdsworth families; the font is of stone with a cover of richly carved spiral lattice work, near to which stands the figure of an old man holding the poor-box: the tower is 118 feet high, and of its bells, ten were put up in 1787, at a cost of £360, the other three in 1814: in the year 1807 and 1808 the church, aisles, choir, and chapels were repaired, and in 1817, the steeple, pinnacles and stone figures: more recently, in 1878 and 1879, the church was restored, in accordance with the advice of the late Sir Gilbert Scott R.A. at a cost of £20,000: this undertaking included the removal of the western gallery and the opening of the tower arch: in the uncovered walls may be seen traces of Saxon architecture, and built into the wall on the south side of the nave near the ceiling there was found what appears to be a stone coffin of the same date: the chancel was floored with marble, and the ancient and richly carved benches of polished oak replaced: magnificently carved oak screens divide the chancel and south aisle from the body of the church, the earlier portion bearing the arms of Queen Anne, and new tracery of carved oak, similar in style, has been added to the organ: underneath the chancel is a crypt, now used as a library: this church is rich in monuments and brasses; among which may be mentioned, one in the north chapel, to the Rokeby family (1521), to the Savile family in the body of the church (1529), and several to the family of Waterhouse; in the nave, on a brass plate, “John Waterhows, of Halyfax, and Agnes hys wyff,” January 27th. 1530; in the north chapel, on a stone, with the figure of a man in armour, is the inscription,” Here lyeth the body of Robert Waterhouse in the south aisle there is a monument to Robert Farror, Bishop of St. David’s, who was born in the parish of Halifax, and suffered martyrdom at Caermarthen Cross, in the reign of Queen Mary: a tablet in the north aisle bears the name of “Mr. Richard Sommerscales, of Halyfax, who died 8th April, 1613, and who, by his last will gave all his lands in Halyfax and Ovenden (after the decease of his sister) to the poor of the two said towns for ever, amongst whom he gave 40 shillings to his sister’s husband for the term of his life:” in the chancel, emblazoned in gold, are the arms of the see of Canterbury, together with those of John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (1694); in the south chapel is an inscription to Eli Bentley (1675), and on a pillar in the chancel another to Hugo Ramsden (1628): at the east end of the south aisle is a monument with a recumbent figure to Charles Musgrave D.D. vicar of Halifax for 48 years, who died April the 17th. 1875: the ceiling over the body of the church has a richly carved oak frame and panelling, bearing the arms of the different vicars of Halifax since its institution as a vicarage in the year 1274: some of the gravestones in the church bear date so early as 1566. The register is in good preservation, the first book being on paper, the remainder, to the 18th century, on parchment; it dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Crown, and is of the yearly value of £2,000, and held by the Rev. Francis Pigou D.D. of Trinity College, Dublin, rural dean, and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen. By an Act passed in 1829, intituled An Act for Extinguishing Tithes, the tithes and vicarial dues formerly paid to the vicar were done away with, and the ten townships of the parish agreed to pay the above sum in lieu of the tithes.

Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1862; the church, in Harrison road, is a handsome Grecian edifice, erected in 1795, at the expense of the Rev. Dr. Coulthurst, the then vicar; it consists of a spacious nave, with a clock tower at the south end; there are eleven stained memorial windows; the former high-backed pews were, in 1877, superseded by modern open benches. The register dates from the year 1795. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300 with residence, in the gift of the vicar and held by the Rev. James Hope M.A. of Queen’s College, Oxford.

St. James’ is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1843; the church, in St. James’ road, is built in a pseudo-Gothic style, and was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1832, it consists of chancel, nave and aisles; the expense of building was, in a great measure, defrayed by Parliamentary grant. The register dates from the year 1832. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £400 with house, in the gift of the vicar and held by the Rev. William Edward Hancock B.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

St. Mary’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1870; the church, situated in Lister lane, is a handsome Gothic structure of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, with tower, containing 1 bell, and surmounted by a lofty spire; there are sittings for about 800 people, and the entire cost (about £10,000) was defrayed by the late Michael stocks esq. of Shibden Hall, near Halifax; the church contains a handsome memorial window, erected by Major stocks in memory of his father, and has also a fine organ. The register dates from the year 1870. The living is a vicarage, of the yearly value of £200, in the gift of the vicar of Halifax, and held by the Rev. James Moore, L.Th. of Hatfield Hall, Durham University. A parsonage house and schools were erected in 1873, towards the cost of which the late Michael stocks esq. gave £1,000, the remainder being raised by public subscription.

St. George’s church, Lee Mount, is an edifice in the Early English style, built of Northowram stone, and was erected by the munificence of Miss Moss, the daughter of a former vicar of Illingworth. at a cost of £6,000, from the designs of Messrs. Jackson & Fox, of George street, Halifax, and consecrated in April 1877; the interior dimensions are 69ft. by 45ft. 6in. The register dates from the year 1877. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the vicar of Halifax, and held by the Rev, Israel Parkinson M.A. of Queen’s College, Oxford.

King Cross is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1845; the church of St. Paul is a stone building in the Early English style, consisting of nave and aisles, with lofty tower and spire; all the windows, including those in the clerestory, are stained, and the north aisle contains a memorial window to Barnard Hartley esq. The register dates from the year 1845. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with residence, and the interest of £500, left by the late Robert Wainhouse esq. for a perpetual endowment, in the alternate gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Ripon, and held by the Rev. Edward Snepp, surrogate.

St. Augustine’s church, Hanson lane, erected by subscription in 1876, is a handsome stone structure in the Early English style, consisting of nave, aisles, and transepts, and containing seats for 750 persons, all of which are free. The register dates from the year 1876. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £150, in the gift of trustees and held by the Rev. John William Hall M.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham.

The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Marie, is a handsome stone building standing in Gibbet street, and was restored by general subscription in 1868; it consists of small chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and will seat 700 worshippers; the interior is beautifully decorated and contains a good organ; the priests in charge are the Rev. Joseph Geary, the Rev. P. Brady and the Rev. J. McKenna; infant, day and Sunday schools adjoin the church, and divine service is also conducted in the school room dedicated to St. Joseph, at Godley Bridge, and in the Old Assembly rooms, Woolshops.

There are chapels in Halifax for the Baptists in Lee Mount, North parade, Pellon lane, Queen’s road, Siddal and Trinity road; Catholic Apostolic in North parade; Congregationalists, Harrison road, Hopwood lane, Range bank, square road, stannary street and Wade street; Wesleyans, Broad street, Rhodes street, Siddal Skircoat Moor road and south parade; Methodist New Connexion, Rhodes street, Salternebble and Southowram bank; Primitive Methodists, Gibbet street, New bank and Southowram; Unitarians, Northgate end; society of Friends, 10 Clare road; and The Brethren in Alma street. The old Congregational chapel is now used as a school, and a new chapel, with handsome tower and spire, in the Decorated style of the fourteenth century, has been erected at a cost (exclusive of £1,000 paid for its site) of more than £10,000. Park Congregational chapel, in the Early Geometrical style, was opened in 1869, the foundation stone having been laid two years previously by the late Sir Francis Crossley bart. M.P.; the total cost was £11,700, and there are seats for 932 persons, exclusive of free sittings.

A handsome stone chapel for the Wesleyans, in the Third Pointed or Perpendicular style, has been erected in Prescot street, to replace the one in south parade: it consists of nave, aisles and transept, 26 feet, 10 feet and 24 feet wide respectively; the length from north to south is 77 feet 6 inches, and across the transept 86 feet: at the chief entrance three arches give access to an open porch 27 feet long: by 9 feet wide: opening out of the western aisle is an organ chamber containing a very fine instrument: the aisles are separated from the nave by ranges of grey granite columns, carrying the widely-spanned arches supporting the clerestory wall: the seats are of pitch pine and varnished. In the rear of the chapel are schoolrooms and two vestries. The approximate cost of construction was £12,500.

Halifax Cemetery, Lister lane, about 3 acres in extent, was opened in 1841, and cost about £5,000, raised by a company in £5 shares. The Corporation have since acquired, by an expenditure of about £10,000, the beautiful estate of Stoney Royd, and have constructed and laid out a new cemetery of 23 ½ acres, containing two elegant chapels. All saints Parochial Cemetery, at Haley Hill, is a little over two acres in extent, and contains a pretty mortuary chapel.

The buildings connected with the Halifax Mechanics’ Institution and Mutual Improvement society, form a noble structure, the large hall of which will seat 1,300 persons, and is used for concerts and lectures: this edifice, situated near the former institution, established in 1825, was completed in, 1856 and opened January 4th. 1857. The institution is managed by twelve directors, a president, two vice-presidents and a secretary; there are classes for males and females, with a present attendance of above 1,000 members, who are instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, geography, grammar, dictation, shorthand, literature, history, chemistry, magnetism and physiology. The library, consisting of more than 10,000 volumes, is open from 12 to 3, and from 7 to 9 p.m. and the news-room is supplied with 57 weekly and daily newspapers and five quarterly periodicals, besides all the principal magazines of the day. The Halifax school of Art, in connection with the Central Training school of the Department of Arts, south Kensington, London, is also carried on here, where also is the office of the Sunday school Union Institute.

The Town Hall, in Crossley street, stands on a site contiguous to the Mechanics’ Institute: it is stated to be from one of the very last designs of the late Sir Charles Barry, and is in the Italian Gothic style; the ground floor covers a parallelogram 148 feet deep and 99 feet wide; the interior is very handsome, being richly decorated; the central hall runs the full height of the building, and is surrounded by a gallery affording access to some of the offices, while others are reached from the ground floor.

The Exchange and News Room, in the Town Hall, are governed by a committee of twelve, elected annually in January, the mayor for the time being acting as chairman.

The Theatre is at Wards end.

There are two Music Halls; the one known as “Templeton’s,” situated near North Bridge, is a large and commodious structure, and will hold 3,000 persons: the interior is fitted up with every comfort: one large gallery stretches round three sides of the Hall, at the end of which are refreshment rooms: there are four outlets in case of fire.

The Halifax Infirmary and Dispensary is a large and commodious building in Ferguson street, erected in 1836.

The Borough Hospital for fever and small-pox was established in 1872, and is situated in the grounds adjoining the Stoney Royd cemetery: it is a square red brick building, with a pleasant aspect, commands a good view of the town, and contains 27 beds for adults and four cots for children.

The fire engines are kept in Albion street.

The Masonic Hall was erected at a cost of about £5,000, and contains lodge, banquet hall, committee, smoking, and dressing rooms, and library, together with separate lodge for instruction, and apartments suitable for conversazzioni: it was opened in 1870; the lodges holding their meetings in the hall are the Probity, 61, of which Mr. George Scarborough is the worshipful master and Mr. George Davis secretary, and the St. James, 448, of which Mr. William swale is the worshipful master and Walter Walshaw, secretary. There are two other lodges in the town, one called the De Warrenne, whose meetings are held at the White swan hotel, the other called St. John’s, whose meetings are held in King Cross street.

The Halifax Permanent Benefit Building society have their offices in a handsome stone building erected by themselves, immediately adjoining the Mechanics’ Institution and opposite the Town Hall.

There are three weekly newspapers, viz. “The Halifax Guardian,” “The Halifax Courier,” and “The Halifax Times.”

The Literary and Philosophical Institution, situated in the Harrison road, was established in 1830, and contains a valuable and interesting museum: it has been lately extended by the addition of a library and lecture ball. The latter, approached by a staircase 15 feet wide, which also conducts to the whole of the upper rooms of the museum, will hold from 250 to 300 people, and is arranged on the amphitheatre principle. The library is fitted with bookcases, with five projecting wings from the side, affording space for upwards of 20,000 volumes. An iron gallery runs round, half way up, so as to render the upper shelves accessible. The whole of the building, which is heated by hot water pipes, is thrown open to the public at a charge of 1d. for admission.

There is a subscription and circulating library in Harrison road, which comprises 20,000 volumes of standard and well selected works. The Assembly and Concert Rooms were erected in 1828.

The Gas Works, erected in 1822 by a company, at an expense of £16,000, in £25 shares, are, together with the Water Works, now vested in the Corporation, and since their acquisition these works have been considerably enlarged at great expense.

A commodious rifle shed stands in Prescot street.

North Bridge is a noble structure, stretching over the river and the Great Northern railway, and connecting Haley Hill with Northgate, on the Halifax and Bradford turnpike road: the first stone was laid on the 14th of April, 1869, by John Dyson Hutchinson M.P. then mayor of Halifax: it is an iron girder bridge consisting of two arches, with an entire length of 136 yards and 22 yards broad: there is a drinking fountain on the Northgate side, presented by James Bairstow esq. to the Corporation on the occasion of the opening of the Bridge, October 25th. 1871. and erected as a memorial to the late James Oates esq. of Northowram, one of the builders of the old bridge: engineer, John Frazer C.E.

At the entrance to North Bridge is a monument to Col. Akroyd, bearing this inscription: “Edward Akroyd, erected by his fellow townsmen, 1875:” the bronze figure of the Colonel, erect and uncovered, rests on square blocks of granite and is enclosed by iron railings: inlaid in the granite, one on either side, are four bronze plates; on one are the family arms, with the motto, “in veritate victoria;” a representation of Sir Charles Wood (now Lord Halifax) removing the first sod for the railway between Halifax and Bradford, with Colonel Akroyd standing beside the Mayor forms another; the next exhibits Colonel Akroyd as laying the foundation stone of All souls church; the last shows the Colonel on horseback at the head of his regiment.

The Borough Police Force consists of one chief constable, one detective inspector, two inspectors, twelve sergeants and fifty-eight constables.

The Market is very spacious, and well supplied with butchers’ meat, fish, and vegetables, and is held on Saturday in each week. A cattle market has been established in Gibbet lane. Two annual fairs are held for the sale of cattle, one on the 24th of June, being the festival of St. John the Baptist, and the other on the first Saturday in November.

The Market Hall was erected in 1779, as the Piece Hall, at a cost of £12,000, on a site given by Mrs. Gaygill for 5,000 years, at 5s. a year: the building is of stone, and forms a quadrangle occupying a square of 10,000 yards; the east side has three stories, and the other sides two stories; each story having a colonnade in front; there are 312 separate rooms, but most of them are at present unoccupied. The open portion in the centre forms a lawn, where the hustings for elections are erected; public meetings and entertainments also take place here. In June, 1871, the Corporation, finding how greatly additional market room was required, resolved to convert the building into a market for the sale of vegetables, &c: on the occasion of its being re-opened for this purpose the mayor re-named it, and it has since been known as the Market Hall.

The trades carried on are worsted spinning and manufacturing, wire manufacturing, cotton and woollen card making, the manufacture of damasks and table covers, engineers’ tool and machine making, dye works, wool stapling and wool extracting; there are also chemical works, and extensive carpet and rug manufactories. There are four banks, and one Penny bank, conducted, not on the savings bank, but on the ordinary banking principles, issuing cheque books, and already doing a large business, having over 7,900 depositors, with a balance to their joint credit of £151,669.

The firm of John Crossley and sons Limited, carpet manufacturers, is one of the most important firms in Halifax; it furnishes employment to more than 4,000 operatives, a large proportion of whom are heads of families. The business was originated more than half a century ago by Mr. John Crossley, who died January, 1837: subsequent to his death, its transactions were vastly extended by his three sons, Mr. John Crossley, the late Mr. Joseph Crossley and the late Sir Francis Crossley, whose enterprise was attended with a success which greatly promoted the prosperity and progress of the town. The late Sir Francis Crossley erected and endowed twenty-two almshouses, about 1855, between Hopwood lane and Lister lane, and near his own residence, “in testimony of his gratitude to Almighty God, and with the view of benefiting those of his fellow-townsmen and others who may be in need of the assistance hereby provided for them:” each house, which has a separate entrance from a terrace along the front, raised some feet above the pleasure grounds, has cellar, living room on the ground floor and bedroom above; the style adopted is the Domestic Gothic architecture of the fifteenth century; the houses at each end, and that in the centre, have an additional story, which gives to them the aspect of towers, and over the second-floor window of the centre tower there is a carved panel, the coat of arms of the late Sir Francis and Lady Crossley; and still higher, on a ribbon, is inscribed the text following from 1 Chronicles, xxix. 14: “of Thine own have we given Thee.” The alms people may be either men or women, the men being either married, widowers, or bachelors, the women unmarried, or widows. Each married almsman receives 8s. 6d. per week, and each alms woman 6s. per week, the stipends being paid on the Friday in each week. Every person appointed must be of good character, and a recognised member of and communicant with some Protestant Trinitarian church or congregation, professing and holding the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, for two years at least prior to his or her application; each applicant must be destitute of means sufficient for his or her support, and must be incapacitated for labour, either by age, disease or infirmity; suitable guarantees are provided for ascertaining these qualifications by the certificates of credible persons. The same gentleman also purchased, in 1855,15 acres of land opposite to his own house—12 ½ of which were laid out under the superintendence of the late Sir Joseph Paxton M.P. and Mr. E. Milner, of the Crystal Palace-and where now are pleasant walks with seats, lakes and fountains, lofty mounds and embankments with flowers and ornamental trees, and a grand terrace on which stand five beautiful Italian marble statues, life-size, representing Hercules, Venus, Diana, Telemachus and an Italian Music Girl, besides two immense vases, all finely sculptured; and this enchanting spot, which has cost the donor, it is reported, more than £50,000, was presented, through its Corporation, to the people of his native town by Frank Crossley esq. and denominated the “People’s Park.” in remembrance of which gift and as a token of grateful respect, a fine marble monumental life-size statue has been placed in the saloon, bearing the following inscription:-“This statue of Frank Crossley, esq. M.P. for the West Riding of York, donor of the People’s Park, was erected August, 1860, by the inhabitants of Halifax, his native town, as a tribute of gratitude and respect to one whose public benefactions and private virtues deserve to be remembered.” in 1867 Sir Francis Crossley handed to the Mayor of Halifax the sum of £6,300 to be invested, and the interest to be applied in keeping up the People’s Park.”

The Crossley Orphan Home and school, opened in 1864, were built by John. Sir Francis, and Joseph Crossley jointly, at a cost of £50,000, and endowed with about £3,000 annually; it is a noble structure, in a mixed style of architecture, and situated on Skircoat Moor, Savile Park, and was designed to afford to orphan children a liberal education, with board and lodging: there are at present between 200 and 300 children of both sexes enjoying its benefits; each child pays from £5 to £10 a year as an acknowledgment, with the exception of 40 who are on the foundation; children are admitted from six years of age and upwards, the boys being kept till they are 15, the girls 17 years of age; Mr. William Cambridge Barber is the principal.

The Abbott’s Ladies’ Homes, situated near Salterhebble, were founded by a portion of a large sum of money left to trustees by the late Jacob Abbott esq. to be expended in such charities as they should think fit: they were erected in 1875, and consist of twelve handsome cottage residences, each containing four rooms, and are for ladies in reduced circumstances having a small private income; they are each fallowed 20s. weekly.

The charities are numerous; that of Nathaniel Waterhouse esq. who, in 1636 and 1642, devised by will, upon trust, certain lands and hereditaments in Halifax, Skircoat and Southowram, provides for the support and maintenance of twelve poor persons, and residence in houses near the parish church; also several rooms for ten boys and ten girls, who should be maintained and trained up for such work as they seemed most fit for, these children to be selected as follows, viz.:-five from the town of Halifax, two from Southowram, two from Northowram, two from Hipperholme, two from Ovenden, two from Warley, two from Sowerby, one from Skircoat, one from shelf and one from Midgley. By a decree issued in the fifth year of King George I. the Commissioners of Charitable Uses recited an inquisition, whereby it was found that nearly £200 was bequeathed by the testator to the governors of the workhouse in Halifax for the time being, for the purchase of lands in the neighbourhood, to be applied for the use and benefit of the poor of Halifax, as the governor of the said workhouse should deem fit to apply the same. In the year 1777 an Act of Parliament was passed for better regulating the united charities of Nathaniel Waterhouse, when it was found that the trust estates had been sufficient for the demands made upon them for the use of the workhouse and the poor of the township of Halifax; but subsequently, by an Act passed, it was found expedient that each of the townships of the parish of Halifax should respectively participate in the benefit arising from and under the will of the testator: the income of the charity at its foundation amounted to about £130 per annum; in 1750, £250; in 1777, £340; in 1787, £476; in 1797, £552; in 1807, £1,380 and now nearly £2,000. In 1852, an “Act for the Better Regulation of Charitable Trusts” enabled the governors of the said charities to erect, with these increased funds, the present handsome pile of buildings, the first stone of which was laid on the 26th of June, 1855, by the late Venerable Charles Musgrave D.D. assisted by the president and governors of the charities from the respective townships participating in their benefit. The buildings form three sides of a quadrangle, each being detached and the central block being the residence of the governor and schoolmaster: there are here also schools for thirty boys and thirty girls; the wings on either side form almshouses, and contain twenty-four alms women, who each receive £1 per month; the expense, including an allowance for the value of the land appropriated, being quite £10,000. The style is Elizabethan, from designs by the late Mr. Charles Child, of Halifax. About £500 yearly from this charity is distributed to general poor of certain townships. John Waterhouse, who died on the 11th day of February, 1865, left by will the following sums:-to the treasurer for the time being of the Halifax Infirmary, £4,000; to the vicar of Halifax for poor clergy, £1,500; to the Tradesmen’s Benevolent Institution, £2,000; and £5,000 to the vicar for the poor of Halifax.

The poor of Halifax have also about £200 yearly from several charities.

The Halifax Tradesmen’s Benevolent Institution is for the relief of decayed tradesmen and others; besides subscriptions it has an invested capital of over £17,000.

Savile Park, formerly Skircoat Moor, is a large recreation-ground of many acres: a road runs all round, with others diverging at various points: seats are placed at various spots and there is a fountain near the Savile Park road: the north and south sides are studded with villas and terraces; on the west side the park comes to an abrupt termination by a series of rugged rocks, at the bottom of which is scar Wood, stretching away to the river Calder.

On Lee Mount a considerable portion of land is being enclosed and laid out by the Corporation as a park, to be called Shrogg's Park.

The parish of Halifax comprises twenty-three townships. The area of the whole parish is 82,539 acres; of the township, 999 acres; the population in 1871 was, of the entire parish, 173,313; of the townships, 37,208; the municipal and parliamentary boroughs are co-extensive; the population in 1871 was:-

Rateable value of the township, £177,714, and of the borough, £273,483.

The magistrates hold petty sessions at the Court House, Harrison road, every Saturday, in addition to which a magistrate attends at the Court House every day, at 12 noon, to issue summonses & to try lock-up cases The placed in the division are:-Barkisland, Clifton, Elland-cum-Greetland, Erringden, Fixby, Halifax, Hartsbead, Heptonstall, Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse, Larkfield, Midgley, Norland, Northowram, Ovenden, Rastrick, Rishworth. Shelf, Skircoat, Southowram, Sowerby, Soyland, StaiuIand-with-Old Lindley, Stansfield, Wadsworth & Warley.

INSURANCE AGENTS

British Empire Mutual Life, J, Wilson, post office, Northbridge; Pickard, Learoyd & Co. Square road; J. T. Riley, Cheapside & F. Clayton, 6 southgate.

Commercial Union Fire & Life, J. Clay, 30 Union street; J. Caw, jun. George street.

County Fire & Provident Life, J. P.Birtwhistle, Crossley’s chambers, Northgate; Turlay & Co. 44 southgate; J. Buckley & son, Argyle street; J. Farrar, 29 Northgate & A. OIlereushaw, Beech Hill mills.

Hand-in-Hand, T. Parkinson, Crossley streets A. Stocks, 31 Northgate.

Lion Fire, A. Haigh, Winding road; H. Bake, 17 Holden street; J. A. Murrey, G. N. Railway Goods Depot; H. M. Smith. 13 Waid’s end & A. M. Shackleton, 195 Pelton lane.

Liverpool London & Globe, F. Baines, 3 George street; E. Bull, 8 Clare road; R. Horsfall, Post Office buildings, George street; J. S. Lees, 5 southgate; J. D. Taylor, Town Hall buildings, Crossley street & W, Utley & Co. 10 Waterhouse street.

London Assurance Corporation, J. S. Lees & Co. 5 southgate; W. Storey, 7 King Cross street & J. W. Tasker, 12 Waterhouse street.

Manchester Fire, C. J. Fox, George street.

National Provident Life, J. Allen, East Riding chambers.

North British & Mercantile, W. Dyer, 1 Corn market; J. Mackerill, 15 Crossley street; A. Suter, George street & O. Webster, 14 Broad street.

Norwich Union Fire, J. E. Foster, Barum Top street; J. R. Ingram, 4 Hopwood lane; Pickard, Learoyd & Co. Square road & J. D. Taylor, Town Hall buildings, Crossley street.

Phoenix Fire, Wavell, Foster & Wavell, 29 George street & W. R. Leyland, Croft mills.

Queen, Allen & Co. 21 Waterhouse street; C. T. Rhodes, Ward’s end, Southgate & F. Waddington, 34 Milton st.

Royal Fire & Life, H. J. Barber & J. T. Walsh (district superintendents), Crossley street; J. Swift, 26 Hampden place; C. T. Rhodes, 3 shakespeare street; W. Common, 9 George street; T. L. Patchett, George street chambers; W. Swaine, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway station; W. Storey, 7 King Cross street; G. Thomson, Elmfield terrace, Savile park & W. Blackburn, New buildings, silver street.

Royal Exchange, Foster, England & Foster, Town Hall chambers.

Scottish Equitable, R. Edgar & H. Haley, Halifax & Huddersfield Union Bank.

Scottish Union National Fire & Life, W. Irvine & Co. 18 Cheapside; J. H. Thackrah, 24 Crown street; T. C. Whitehead, 27 square road; A. Thackrah, 18 Crown street & J. C. Wainhouse, 54 Alma street.

Scottish Widows’ Fund, W. Dyer, 1 Corn market & J. H. Thackrah, 24 Crown street.

Standard Life, J. Clay & son, 30 Union street; J. W. Longbottom, 4 Carlton street & Wavell, Foster & Wavell, 26 George street.Stolen from Fore-bears

Sun Fire & Life, Barstow & Son, 5 southgate; J. Sugden, Waterhouse chambers, Crossley street: W. Berry, 19 Crossley street; & T. Pearson, 9 & 11 Crown street.

Westminster Fire, C. Pritchard, Harrison road.

Yorkshire Fire & Life, W. Mackie, 21 Waterhouse street; E. Bull, 3 Clare Hall road; J. S. Highley & Son, Cross chambers, Crown St. & G. Taylor, West Riding chambers, 21 Waterhouse street.

HALIFAX UNION

Board days every alternate Wednesday.

The Union comprises the following places:-Barkialand, Clifton, Elland-with-Greetland, Fixby, Halifax, Hartshead, Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse, Midgley, Norland, Northowram, Ovenden, Rastrick, Riahworth. Shelf, Skircoat, Southowram, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland-with-Old Lindley & Warley; rateable value, £617,708: population (1871), 153,249.

County Court.

Court house & offices, Prescott street. Attendance daily from 10 to 4, except Fridays, when the Court closes at 1 p.m. Court day, five or six times a month, usually on Tuesdays, occasionally on Fridays. Moneys paid out on Mondays, Thursdays & Saturdays.

Cemeteries

All saints' Parochial, Haley hill.

Corporation, Stoney royd, Keighley Walton, clerk to the Burial Board.

General, Gibbet street, William Riley, lodge keeper.

Borough Hospital, Stoney royd, Thomas M. Dolan, surgeon; Miss K. Kershell, matron.

Borough Police Office, Town hall, Charles Pole, chief constable.

Chamber of Commerce, 13 Ward’s end, J. B. Holroyde, sec.

Churchwardens’ Overseers’ Offices, Frederick Highley, vestry clerk & assistant overseer for Halifax; John W. Longbottom, clerk to the guardians; David Chapman, assistant overseer for Northowram & Shelf; John Oates, assistant overseer for Southowram.

Corporation Baths, Park road, Thos. Edwd. Aked, supt.

Corporation Water & Gas Office, Town hall, James A. Paskin, engineer; John Edward Lambert, superintendent of water works; William Carr, engineer of gas works; reservoir, Gibbet road, Giddian Moor, keeper.

Corporation Weighing Machine; office, 27 Market street, Elkanah Culpan, clerk.

Fire Brigade station, Albion street.

Infirmary & Dispensary, Ferguson street, H. H. Highley esq. president; John Whiteley & Bray esqrs. vice-presidents: Samuel Waterhouse esq. treasurer; W. H. Hebden & J. E. Hill, hon. Secs.; Wm. Alexander M.D. & Thomas Britton M.D. physicians; John Lister & Lawrence Bramley, consulting surgeons; J. Hodgson Wright, W. Nowell, S.C. Smith & Abraham Jubb, surgeons; Robert Scott M.D. house surgeon; T. Hammond, assistant house surgeon; Miss M. E. Warton, matron.

Inland Revenue & stamp Office for the Halifax District, 19 George street, W. E. Galtridge, collector of inland revenue & receiving officer of taxes, Halifax collection; Edwin George smith, first clerk; John J. Bellew & W. Kendrick, clerks; John Constantine, supervisor; W. Glendinning, officer.

Masonic Hall, St. John’s place.

New Cattle Market, Gibbet St. Elkanah Culpan, inspector.

People’s Park, Park Road villas.

Tax Office, 19 George street; Frank smith, surveyor.

Theatre Royal, F. Rawlings, lessee, Ward's end.

Town Hall, Crossley street.

West Riding Constabulary Office, Harrison road, Lieut.-Col. Robert Seymour Ormsby, superintendent.

West Riding Court House, Harrison road, W. Craven, clerk to the magistrates.

Military

Brigade Depot No. 9 (depot of the 33rd & 76th line regiments), head quarters, Gibbet road, Col. Charles Blewitt, commanding Brigade Depot; Capt. E. G. Fenn, acting adjutant; Maj. C. M. Davis, paymaster.

District staff Office for Payment of Pensioners (6th. 9th & 10th Brigade Depots), 36 Hampden place, Lt.-Col. Thomas Nind Woodall, staff officer of pensioners.

Militia (6th West York) (1st & 2nd Battalions), head quarters, Barracks, Gibbet road, Frederick Joliffe Bayly, lieut.-col. commandant; 2nd Batt. Col. Robert E. W. Garnham; Capt. Albert A. R. Logan, adjutant; Richard Green (1st Batt.), William Harvey (2nd Batt.), quartermasters; surg.-Maj. John H. Wright, medical officer.

West York Yeomanry Cavalry, head quarters, Sir Henry Edwards bart. lieut.-col. commandant; Maj. Thomas G. Johnson, adjutant; Edward W. Symes M.D. Surgeon;. Rev. Francis Pigou D.D. hon. chaplain.

Yorkshire (West Riding) Artillery Volunteers (2nd), head quarters, 18 Lister street, John B. Holroyde, capt. commandant; James Steele, surgeon.

Yorkshire (West Riding) Rifle Volunteers (4th), head, quarters, Prescott (street, Raymond s. Payley, lieut.-col.; Capt. Ferdinand J. Tidmarsh, adjutant; James Payne, quartermaster; Thomas M. Dolan, surgeon; Rev. Francis-Pigou D.D. acting chaplain.

PLACES OF WORSHIP.

CHURCHES.

SCHOOL BOARD

Offices—22 Union street.

Clerk, Robert Ostler.

BOARD SCHOOLS

Albion street, Charles Middleton, master; Miss Mary Jane Thorburn, mistress; Miss Mary E. Port, infants’ mistress.

Booth Town, Moroni s. Procter, master; Miss Sarah Tyers, mistress; Miss Oates, assistant mistress; Miss Isabella Hall, infants’ mistress.

Haugh Shaw, James Hatch, master; Miss Elizabeth Annie Rushforth. mistress; Miss s. L. Kenyon, infants’ mistress.

Lee Mount, Thomas Parkinson, master; Miss Sarah E. Collins, infants’ mistress.

Pellon Lane, Samuel Foster, master; Mary E. Helliwell, mistress; Elizabeth E. Blackwell, infants’ mistress.

Portland Road (Range Bank), Amos Tattersall, master; Miss Ada Clegg, mistress; Miss Elizabeth N. Riley, infants’ mistress.

Queans Road, John Beck, master; Miss Martha A. Farrar, mistress; Miss Elizabeth Gibson, infants’ mistress.

St. Thomas’ Claremount (mixed), Samuel Tweed, master; Miss Clara Foulds, infants’ mistress.

Siddal, John Edward Brooks, master; Miss Sarah E. Shaw, infants’ mistress.

Victoria street East, James Littlewood, master; Miss Jane s. Kemp, infants’ mistress.

Wheatley (infants), Miss Susannah Heyworth. mistress.

SCHOOLS

Free Grammar, in Free school lane, is a handsome structure in the Tudor style, built of local stone, and completed in 1878. The school was founded in 1585 by Queen Elizabeth. for sixty scholars, and has an endowment of £330 a year: there is a senior and junior department; the fees are from £8 to £12 a year; boys who have been in the school for two years are admissible with those educated at Leeds and Heversham schools as candidates for the Milner scholarships at Magdalene College, Cambridge, worth about £70 a year. Rev. Thomas Cox, M.A. master.

School of Art, Mechanics’ Institute, W. H. Stopford, master.

All saints’ National (infants), Salterhebble, Miss Blanche Waller, mistress.

British, Great Albion street, Charles Middleton, master; Misa Thorburn, mistress; Miss Port, infants’ mistress.

Crossley Orphan Home & School, Savile park, W. C. Barber, principal.

Holy Trinity National school, erected at a cost of £2,000, Harrison road, James Stansfield, master; Miss Stocks, mistress; Miss Mary Ann Gledhill, infants’ mistress.

Messrs. Holdsworth’s, Whitegate road, George Thornton, master; Miss E. Standeven, mistress; Miss Rhoda Hardcastle, infants’ mistress.

Mount Pellon National schools were erected in 1858, partially at the cost of Mrs. Gott, of Birks Hall; Geo. Stokes, master; Miss Annie Brooke, mistress; Miss Eliza Wilkinson, infants’ mistress.

National (girls & infants), 26 Church street, Miss Florence Riley, mistress; Miss Elizabeth Lord, infants’ mistress.

St. Augustine’s National, Hanson lane, John Halliday, master; Miss Jane Sirett, mistress; Miss Mahony, infants ’ mistress.

St. James’s National, Cross Hills, smith Jowett, master; Miss Mary Askroyd, mistress.

St. James’s National, Victoria street, Miss Jane Ann Skelton, mistress; Miss Ellen Best, infants' mistress.

St. Marie’s Catholic (boys & girls), Gibbet lane, Miss Dulan, mistress; Miss Isabella Green, infants’ mistress.

St. Paul’s, King Cross, Harry Rickard, master; Miss Emma Baldwin, mistress; Miss Priscilla Brown, infants’ mistress.

Sion Congregational (boys & girls), Wade street, James Littlewood, master; Miss J. S. Kemp.mistress; Miss E. Jenkinson, infants’ mistress.

Square Congregational Chapel (boys & girls), Blackledge, Miss Harriet Bates, mistress.

Trinity National (boys), West parade, Benjamin Booth. master.