Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Our Home And Country
Between May 1914 and September 1915, Arthur Comfort produced a
series of drawings which were published in the The Halifax Weekly
Courier.
The drawings covered one district per week.
Each drawing was made up of 3 or 4 smaller sketches.
Each drawing was accompanied by a short article.
It seems that the series was not published in book form.
The subjects were
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Sowerby Bridge: Chapel Lane, junction of Ryburn and
Calder, the Docks
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Heptonstall: entrance to old churchyard, Octagonal
Chapel, Main Street to old Cross Inn, stone archway in
Northgate
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Warley: well at Stocks Lane, porch at Stocks Lane House,
Institute and Chapel, fountain and
Maypole Inn, the Old Hall
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Midgley: Cliff Hill, Lassey Hey,
Pinfold, Towngate and stocks
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Shibden Valley: Field House, ruins of Shibden
Mill, Shibden Fold, Shibden Mill dam
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Mill Bank: Sportsman Inn, Main Street, miniature
graveyard, Haigh Farm
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Northowram: Westercroft, Marsh Hall, frieze in
Marsh Hall
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Luddenden: Lord Nelson Inn, Working Men's
Club, Old Lane
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Sowerby: Sowerby Town post office, John
Almighty and his pulpit, old St Peter's belfry at Field House
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Luddendenfoot: Upper Foot Farm, Booth
House, Roebucks
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Rishworth and Soyland: Bogden Bridge, Swift
Place, Thrum Hall, Baitings
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Hebden Bridge: the Old Bridge, the Buttress,
Mytholm Hall
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Copley: Old Volunteers Arms, Church
lych-gate, the railway arches, Toll Bar
Cottage
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Brighouse: Daisy Croft, Slead Hall, Bridge
view, Woolrow Farm
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Hipperholme and Lightcliffe: Lower Crow Nest,
Vicarage & belfry view, Langley House, Priestley
Green
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Ripponden: the Golden Lion, Chapel Farm,
Bottom o't' Bank cottage, Waterloo Inn
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Triangle and Kebroyd: Kebroyd House, the Triangle Inn &
Oak Hill, Deerplay, the Stepping Stones
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Norland: Fallingworth Hall, Blue Ball Inn &
stocks, Upper Wat Ing, Lower Spark House
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Luddenden Dean: Lower Shaw Booth, Upper Saltonstall,
Lower Saltonstall, the New bridge below Dean Chapel
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Soyland: Great Good Greave, Making Place, Great
House, Kirk Cliffe
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Shelf: Stone Chair, Shelf Windmill, Lower
Bentley, Lower High Bentley
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Bradshaw: coalpit ruins Soil Hill, Holdsworth House Farm,
Scausby Hall, the Pinfold
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Cragg Vale (Coiners Country): Bell House, Stannery
End, New House, Hoo Hole
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Barkisland: the Stocks, the Pinfold, steps of
Old Village Cross, Nelson House
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Elland: the Old Fleece Inn, the Rose & Crown
Inn, cottages at Gog Hill, houses in Church Street
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Southowram: the Who Could Have Thought It Inn, Law
Hill, the Observatory, Ashday Hall
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Rastrick: Grandmother's Clock at Thornhill Arms Hotel,
The Square, the Long Causey near Boothroyd Park,
Castle Hill
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Mixenden: Mixenden Green, Mixenden Stones, Grindlestone
Bank, Walt Royd
Other sketches appearing in the Halifax Weekly Courier during the
same period included
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Northowram Hall: the Hall, Archway in garden
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Doomed Property at Bull Green and Barum Top
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Bull Green (South side) & Barum Top: as they are today
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Old Houses, Bull Green: now being demolished
©
Malcolm Bull 2017 /
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Revised 19:23 on 4th February 2017 / x1965 / 10