West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

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    • Email
    • Telephone
    • Address
      • WYAS Calderdale, Central Library and Archives, Square Road, Halifax, HX1 1QG, England, UK
    • Opening Hours
      • Opening times and further information: https://www.wyjs.org.uk/archive-service/contact-us-and-opening-times/calderdale-archive-service-opening-times-and-information/https:
    • Photographs Allowed
      • No
    • Accessible
      • Yes
    • Archival and Other Holdings
      • The Calderdale collections include;
      • Business, trade union and friendly societies’ archives
      • • Records of local industrial and commercial activities including textiles, banking,
      • brewing, clay and brick making, clock making, coal mining, printing, stone quarrying
      • and wire manufacturing
      • • Family and estate records, including the world famous UNESCO award winning
      • diaries of Anne Lister of Shibden Hall (1806-1840)
      • • A variety of solicitors’ collections including the papers of Robert Parker, an 18th
      • century Halifax attorney, which contain some of the only material surviving about
      • the activities of the infamous Cragg
      • Vale Coiners
      • • Local authority records, including
      • Calderdale Metropolitan Borough
      • Council and its predecessors bodies
      • • Large quantities of nonconformist
      • church records
      • WYAS Calderdale