West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale
- Web
- 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
- Accessible
- 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