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St. Andrews Road, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 6RZ

Industrial buildings at the edge of the large open space filled with cars on HTAFC match days to my knowledge - other times I know not. A distant view of Castle Hill which defines views around Huddersfield, as Jodrell Bank does in Cheshire.

A towpath alongside the Huddersfield Broad Canal.

A very similar view to that of Stanley Walker Image

Looking from Aspley Basin with the Quay Street Locomotive Lifting Bridge in the distance.Image

This is on a car park for the engineering works opposite. The site contained several streets of terrace houses until the mid-20C.

For over 150 years, Aspley Basin was one of the busiest places in Huddersfield. It came into being when the Broad Canal was completed and greatly increased in importance once the Narrow Canal was finished in 1811. The site was laid out with wharves, cranes and housing for canal workers creating a small dockland. It was a flourishing place because goods had to be transhipped here from the Broad Canal barges to narrowboats and vice versa as the barges were too wide to use the Narrow Canal and the narrowboats were too long to pass through the short locks on the Broad Canal. Today, the basin has been made into a small marina. The tall, red building in the background is the University of Huddersfield's Central Services Building.

For over 150 years, Aspley Basin was one of the busiest places in Huddersfield. It came into being when the Broad Canal was completed and greatly increased in importance once the Narrow Canal was finished in 1811. The site was laid out with wharves, cranes and housing for canal workers creating a small dockland. It was a flourishing place because goods had to be transhipped here from the Broad Canal barges to narrowboats and vice versa as the barges were too wide to use the Narrow Canal and the narrowboats were too long to pass through the short locks on the Broad Canal. Today, the basin has been made into a small marina.