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 by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior.
Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Painted ceiling above the grand staircase
Dukes Museum exit
Early history section
Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is near the east Pennine foothills. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In 2011, it had a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the wider Calderdale Metropolitan Borough.
Image: Halifax, from Beacon Hill (44152354954)
Image: Piece Hall, Halifax Feb 2023
Image: Halifax Minster (geograph 6407158)
Image: Halifax Town Hall Flickr 3 April 2022