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
2023
Revised 16:49 / 2nd November 2023 / 8632
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