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Entrance to Halifax Town Football Club. At the time of this picture the ground was called The Shay. Nowadays (2013) it is officially the Shay Stadium but still always known locally as The Shay.
This was the site of the Shay Mansion built in 1770 for the local merchant John Caygill. As traffic from the South increased in the 19th century, Halifax Corporation saw the need for a new road to improve access to the town centre and they bought the Shay Mansion, demolished it in 1908 and constructed Skircoat Road, the main road into Halifax from the South. The site was used as a tip and a Territorial Army Training Ground before becoming The Say Football Ground in 1921. '