This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Carol_Tunstall Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.yks.general/15671.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Spring Hall still exists in Halifax, on the road out of Halifax to Huddersfield. The Halifax Resistry Office is actually located in Spring Hall at present, it was an athletic facility for the town in the last fifty years. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

> Spring Hall still exists in Halifax, on the road out of Halifax to > Huddersfield. The Halifax Resistry Office is actually located in > Spring Hall at present, it was an athletic facility for the town in > the last fifty years. > I am not quite clear why this thread is still running because it has been answered several times. However, I can assure the original enquirer et all that Spring Hall is beyond any question whatsoever an area of Halifax. It lies just to the south of the town centre on the road to Huddersfield, just after The Shay (home of Halifax Town FC and Halifax Rugby League Club) and just before Salterhebble Hill. There was - and hopefully still is - a sports ground with tennis courts, playing fields and an athletics running track at Spring Hall - unless, that is, those wretched parasites known as developers haven't built over it by now! When I was at Elland Grammar School in the 1950s, grammar schools from all over the Halifax area used to take part in a big inter-schools sports competition at Spring Hall. I ran there once in the 880 yards as the half-mile champion of Elland GS - and before anyone asks, I came last out of eight because I found myself up against lads from other schools who were twice my size! I have never heard of another Spring Hall in Yorkshire. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE