Harrison Road, Halifax

Harrison Road, Halifax – formerly known as Harrison Lane – run north-south and lies west of Halifax town centre.

In her journals [June 1823], Anne Lister wrote of a horse fair here.

There are/were private houses and several public buildings along the road.

Most of the older buildings here are listed.

The occupants of the properties here have included

• Unknown Address:
  • John Burley
  • John Greaves
  • Halifax Police Station: Harrison Road
  • Jackson & Fox
  • Barum House, Halifax [18??]
  • Halifax Lending Library [1769]
  • Bell School, Harrison Road [1815]
  • Holy Trinity Infants' School, Harrison Road [1815]
  • Isaac Swaine [1822]
  • James Swaine [1822]
  • Dean & Gaukroger, wheelwrights & joiners [1837]
  • Harrison Road Chapel, Halifax [1837]
  • John Highley, timber merchant & joiner [1837]
  • Charles Barstow [1841]
  • Assembly Rooms, Halifax [1845]
  • Billiard Rooms, Halifax [1845]
  • William Henry Crossland [1850s]
  • New Cattle Market, Halifax [1854]
  • Blue Coat School & Almshouses [1855]
  • Anthony Bancroft [1861]
  • Holy Trinity Girls' School [1863]
  • John Edwards Hill [1868]
  • Halifax Public Reading Room [1882]
  • G. H. Gledhill & Sons Limited [1892]
  • Trinity Works, Halifax [1892]
  • Moore, Shepherd & Whitley [1934]
  • Trinity House, Halifax [1987]

• Number 1:
  • John Whitley [1861]
  • Alphonse Ernest Magnier [1862]
  • Magnier's School, Halifax [1862]
  • Norcliffe Blakey Spenser [1897]
  • Fred W. Teal [1934]
  • Finn Gledhill & Company [1960s]

• Number 2:
  • Joseph Sutcliffe [1851]
  • Alexander Suter [1870]
  • Emmet & Emmet [1874]
  • Finn Gledhill & Company [1965]

• Number 3:
  • Horsley, Bairstow & Helliwell
  • Colonel John Edward Orange [1851]
  • John Riley Farrar [1934]
  • Finn Gledhill & Company [1970s]

• Number 4:
  • Finn Gledhill & Company [1980s]

• Number 5:
  • John Leason [1861]
  • Hirst, Whitley & Akeroyd [1934]

• Number 5a:
  • Henry Wardle [1861]

• Number 6:
  • Horsfall's architecture practice
  • John Clay [1881]
  • John Edwards Hill [1901]
  • George Marvell Riley [1934]

• Number 7:
  • Samuel Freeman [1861]
  • Jubb, Booth & Helliwell [1918]

• Number 8:
  • Longbotham, Horsfield & Fielding [1934]

• Number 9:
  • Walton & Helliwell Limited [1946]

• Number 10:
  • Harrison House, Halifax [1834]
  • Gooch's School, Halifax [1841]
  • Christadelphian Hall, Halifax [1905]
  • Halifax Scientific Society [1917]
  • Halifax Tradesmen's Benevolent Institution [1917]
  • James Edgar Oates [1919]

• Number 11:
  • Rev Dr Enoch Mellor [1861]

• Number 11a:
  • Bar Eleven, Halifax [199?]
  • Borough Club, Halifax [1859]
  • Flashman's, Halifax [1980s]

• Number 13:
  • Lewis Irving Dey [1934]

• Number 15:
  • Girls' Friendly Lodge, Halifax [1891]
  • Girls' Friendly Society Club, Halifax [1905]

• Number 17:
  • Central Oil Works, Halifax [1905]

• Number 23:
  • Alfred Riley Greenwood [1891]

• Number 25:
  • Clarkson, Thomas & Collinson [1930s]

• Number 33:
  • Charles Kitchenman
  • Dr Edmund Strickland [1887]

• Number 35:
  • James Bancroft [1876]
  • Julia Bancroft [1905]
  • Holland Oates [1911]
  • Miss Henrietta Dean [1917]

Other features

• New Rooms, Halifax [1828]

See Barum Top / Blackwall, Halifax

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