Halifax Town Hall in the sun

 Sir Charles Barry was commissioned to design a new Town Hall on the Crossley Street site for an estimated cost of £17,000. When Sir Charles died, his son E. M. Barry continued the work and the building was finally completed at a cost of £50,000 in 1863. The building was opened on 4 August 1863 by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII and an estimated 100,000 people were in Halifax for the event.