Balmoral Place, Halifax

Balmoral Place, Halifax is a terrace of 11 houses built around 1860 by Elizabeth Porter in Blackwall.

In 1964, Norman Ashworth bought the house at Number 15. The family gradually bought others in the terrace until they finally acquired the last one around 1990. These were converted into 36 flats.

In August 2005, their son, Robin, put the property up for sale with a guide price of £2·25million.

The individual houses have names such as

• Ashcourt
• Ashcroft
• Ashdene
• Ashfield
• Ashgarth
• Ashglen
• Ashgrove
• Ashleigh
• Ashmount
• Ashroyde

The occupants of the properties here have included

• Unknown Address:
  • Jabez Bunting Farrar
  • Elcho House, Halifax [1901]
  • Joseph Benjamin Hey [1911]

• Number 1:
  • Joshua Sutcliffe [1881]
  • Walter Common [1891]
  • Rev Edward Barton Toase [1901]
  • Mrs Lydia Ann Fortune [1936]

• Number 2:
  • A. B. Annakin (engineer) [1936]

• Number 3:
  • Christopher Taylor Rigge [1871]
  • Mary Smith [1901]
  • Mrs Almira Kerr [1936]

• Number 4:
  • Thomas Carter (provision merchant) [1827-19??] [1901]
  • Mrs Amy Eliza S. Robinson [1936]

• Number 5:
  • Unoccupied [1901]
  • Major Alfred Herbert Richardson [1936]

• Number 6:
  • Rev Francis England Millson [1904]

• Number 7:
  • James Mallinson [1874]
  • Walter Bridges Norton [1901]

• Number 9:
  • William Dyer [1874]
  • John Edward Rice Jones [1891]
  • John William Eastburn [1936]

• Number 11:
  • William Tasker [1871]
  • John Edward Davis [1890]
  • Unoccupied [1901]
  • John William Eastburn [1936]

• Number 13:
  • Thomas Henry Croisdale Scratcherd [1871]
  • John Walter Bray [1881]
  • John Haworth [1901]
  • Mrs Helen K. Sanderson [1936]

• Number 15:
  • John Sharman [1881]
  • Mrs Mary Mallinson [1901]
  • Miss Elizabeth Pollard [1936]

• Number 16:
  • James Atkin (paper mill owner) [1936]

• Number 17:
  • Richard Aked [1881]
  • John Styring Lee [1901]
  • Rev John S. Nye [1905]
  • Eli Exley Mellor [1918]
  • Torsten L. Berg (manager) [1936]

• Number 18:
  • Russell Yorke Lowe [1936]

• Number 19:
  • Agnes Smithson [1871]
  • Henry Cooper Atkinson [1881]
  • Mrs Hill [1911]
  • Unoccupied [1911]
  • Mrs Annie Helena Ward [1936]

• Number 21:
  • Joseph Smithson [1871]
  • Edward Hemingway [1881]
  • William Dyer [1901]
  • Holy Trinity Vicarage, Halifax [1911]
  • Rev James Haydn Rushworth [1958]

This & associated entries use material contributed by Ivan Birch & Derrick Habergham

Page Ref: QQ_106

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