Bankfield Museum
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Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development
Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Painted ceiling above the grand staircase
Dukes Museum exit
Early history section
Edward Akroyd
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Lieutenant Colonel Edward Akroyd, English manufacturer, was born into a textile manufacturing family in 1810, and when he died in 1887, he still owned the family firm. He inherited "James Akroyd & Son
Bankfield Museum
…incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior. When Edward Akroyd (1810–1887) bought this building in 1838, on his engagement to Elizabeth Fearby of York, it was a much…
Edward Akroyd bt Henry Hering
Statue of Edward Akroyd at All Souls Church, Haley Hill