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Joseph Frederick Walsh


The architect Joseph Frederick Walsh was born at Thornhill, Hipperholme, the son of John Walsh.

In 1877, he was articled to his uncle Richard Horsfall.

In 1891, he married Minnie Rose Thwaite

He was influenced by the conservation work of John Lister.

Some of his work was in the Arts & Crafts style.

In 1890, he remodelled several buildings – including Cripplegate, House at the Maypole, and the former Turk's Head Inn.

In 1891, he designed the Boar's Head Hotel as a part of the Halifax Borough Market.

His use of turned stone led to a dispute with local quarriers.

In 1913, he was one of the subscribers to The Old Halls & Manor Houses of Yorkshire

He became the company architect for Whitaker's Brewery. His other work included pubs, breweries and Board Schools:

6 Stainland Road, West Vale

Akroyd Place School Baths

Boar's Head Hotel, Halifax
Bolton Lodge, Southowram
Briarfield, Shibden

Caddy Field Board School
Claremount Liberal Club
Clifton Mill, Bailiff Bridge
Condima Textile Works, Halifax
Craig Royston, Hipperholme
The Croft, Halifax

Daisy Bank, Shibden

Edgeholme, Warley

Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge

Houses at George Street, Hipperholme

Hipperholme Grammar School
Hipperholme Public Library
Hipperholme Council Offices Hipperholme Town Hall
Hipperholme Urban District Council
Holdsworth House, Holmfield

Ladyship Mills, Ovenden
Lee Mount Board School
Lightcliffe Vicarage

Moorside Junior & Infants' School Baths

Pellon Lane Liberal Club

Royal Halifax Infirmary

Saint Mark's Parish Church, Siddal
Saint Mary's Catholic School
Saint Matthew's Church, Northowram
Seedlings Mount Brewery, Halifax
Sharp & Mallett

Turned stone

Warley Institute
Watkinson Almshouses, Lightcliffe
Windmill Hill Brewery, Northowram
Windmill, Shelf 

At various times, he went into partnership with other architects:

The family lived at Savile Green, Halifax [1936].

He died in 1950


See Turned stone




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