A Tourist's Guide to Halifax, England - home of BBC Drama 'Gentleman Jack'

Halifax, West Yorkshire is our home town but I've never done a video of it until now.
Thanks to the BBC drama Gentleman Jack, about Halifax-born industrialist, Anne Lister, this small Yorkshire town is back on the map!
We see the following things:
- Bankfield Museum
- Halifax Town Centre
- Victoria Theatre
- Old Post Office
- Lloyds Bank Building
- Halifax Town Hall
- Borough Market (Victorian-era covered market)
- Halifax Minster (including the organ recital)
- Piece Hall (old wool/cloth trading site)
- Square Chapel
- Halifax Gibbet
- Halifax Slasher street!
- The Three Pigeons (art deco pub)
- Beacon Hill lookout point
- Dean Clough
- Shibden Hall (former home of Anne Lister)

[@chriswiens9706]

I used to live across the street from Bankfield museum. On one night, they had a robbery where a helicopter landed on the roof of the museum so we called the police and it was a big deal at the time. We could see the thieves taking paintings out up onto the roof. Crazy.. This was 30ish years ago now.

[@frenchfrench3953]

Beautiful and interresting town. Specially old librairy and Minster. Thanks

[@GoMaRElKoN]

I really enjoyed watching this video, now I’m more eager to visit Halifax in the future ❤

[@marleymclean4756]

You brought up some really interesting facts about Halifax, great content 👌🏽

[@grannyapple9666]

Impressed by the quality and information. Loved the brass band. Thank-you!

[@viviwil30]

Superb guide. Thanks!

[@robbieg416]

Apologies for commenting on an old video, but this tour was so well done, and I enjoyed it immensely.

[@thesoulscompass]

Excellent video, thank you so much! ☺️

[@JasonSmartTravel]

Glad you liked it!

[@scottydee80]

As someone who has lived in Halifax all my life, I enjoyed this mini-tour of my home town. Not too sure about the brass band music though! 😁

[@JasonSmartTravel]

scottydee80 yeah, I wasn’t too sure about the brass band music either.

[@loganhillman7448]

I quite liked the music personally.

[@jubeaumont6305]

Cant show northern towns baht a bit of brass band, I think its fitting and is traditional

[@bjyokums]

FABULOUS !!!!!! Thank you so much !!!!!!

[@JasonSmartTravel]

Glad you liked it!

[@loganhillman7448]

Learn something new everyday. It's interesting to learn things I never knew about the place I've lived my whole life.

[@constanzalarrea225]

great video guys!! enjoying it from chile, regards!

[@JasonSmartTravel]

Constanza Larrea thanks for watching!

[@jubeaumont6305]

Haha wow, someone from Chile watching a video about my town! Love the internet

[@mahimanair1804]

Amazing😃

[@JoshB_17]

Yh I found this video really interesting to learn about where I live it’s rich in spectacular history but shame it’s gone to shitter people don’t treat this town with the respect it deserves and litter all over place

[@Mcfckinkladze]

Queen street...

[@jubeaumont6305]

@@Mcfckinkladze do you mean queens road?

[@Mcfckinkladze]

@@jubeaumont6305 That’s the one.

[@ghostpint]

Good Fun Thanks. FYI Art deco is a design style from the 1920s and 1930s "Just looks like a pub" LOL brill.

[@kevanreed4408]

I think the Halifax Minister needs a clean lol

[@arizonad8012]

Next here I come!

[@beana666]

Not bad but I wish you'd swotted up before you committed yourself!! I couldn't hear you wife's replies when you asked her questions! But, it was lovely to see the sights and you took some trouble to ensure people saw some interesting bits of Halifax. Thank you!

[@courtneyjade6370]

You forgot about acca?!!

[@LexBeatz6ixShells]

Courtney Jade for fucks sake 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@yatiajmal9400]

Nice

[@sw9458]

I would of said the gibbet was Halifax’s greatest site as it’s where we got our bloody history predating the piece hall , dean clough, or the old post office, even the coffee house as it’s first use was 1286

[@grahampilkington252]

Excellent insight of Halifax. We are going for the first time next weekend

[@davidairey3178]

Lived near Halifax for about 35 years and never new about John the baptise

[@jasongerrard8940]

I have lived in Halifax for 50 years and I did not know we had his head, I always thought that it was jesus on the piece hall gates.

[@lucidvijay]

nice B role

[@BaneHuntress]

"Whats art Deco". You were stood next too one of 2 art deco building in Halifax Where MacDonald now is, is art deco. (there is also where Meca bingo was, I saw them in a photo from 1937) And you mentions the slasher but not the Yorkshire ripper, who killed someone on the Halifax moor, near lister lane. (It's really just playing fields), Oh, and that ALL the building's in Halifax were saved because the council was too skint to rip them down and replace them with 60's prefab crap, even the Piece Hall was only save from demolition by 1 vote!

[@reviewer678]

who is that lady who keeps walking with you?

[@jimmydickson8854]

At least they have kept a lot of their historical buildings not like some other towns

[@norahlarkin7345]

I was born in Halifax in 1969

[@lionwolfm9496]

My mum said she saw some guy filming at borough market 😂

[@wattoo400jutt5]

Ohh i see

[@wattoo400jutt5]

Send u whatsapp dear

[@tryngle9538]

we have tourists???

[@elliotdorr4969]

Bruh ikr

[@JasonSmartTravel]

Good point.

[@dunedinmcdiary5068]

20 seconds into this 1902 film of Halifax ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3rVl6p5nbaerrM ) its shows a sprawling area of factories. Could you please, please, please tell me the location of this shot. I have spent hours on google maps trying to find it as wish to compare Halifax from 1902 with 2020.

[@dunedinmcdiary5068]

Found it by using an old Halifax tram route map. Its Overton Road looking down on Old Lane. Just one empty old factory left from what was a valley full of factories, pouring out goods to go to the farthest points of the British Empire (as I can attest)

[@JasonSmartTravel]

Glad you found it. I’d have had no idea.

[@dunedinmcdiary5068]

@@JasonSmartTravel Could not have done it without the old tram map. Just had to look for places where the tram line ran near a railway line, especially where there where curves in the railway line. Then it was a process of elimination. Would not have found it with google maps alone as the railway line and nearly all the factories shown in the 1902 movie are no longer there. Amazing what can be done on the internet in regards to researching a town 12,000 miles away, on which I was completely ignorant until two day ago! It is astonishing the changes that have occurred in that time. Imagine the people back then would have expected that Halifax in 100 years time would be even more industrialised, the complete opposite of what has actually happened. Anyway, a very interesting town with a very interesting history!

[@allisonalexander2269]

@@dunedinmcdiary5068 I think you mean Ovenden Road.

[@allisonalexander3569]

​@@dunedinmcdiary5068It is called Ovenden road

[@judithparker4608]

Re Conquista.....bend the knee..Celebrate

[@eft5949]

Wonderful place except for all the power black outs as many as 20 each year

[@chrisscott4766]

Am 46 and there has been one when the power station blew up in the 80s in sowerby bridge.or yes 2 when there was a storm that that caused massive damage and a a few deaths in the 70s -80s power out for maybe 8 hours lighting strike on same power station.

[@jasongerrard8940]

What power blackouts, 50 years I lived here and never seen one.

[@themacaulleys2022]

You are right. I lived in Halifax for about 5.yrs and I experienced the black out 2 times

[@rysarth6348]

Lived on Rye Lane from 76-94 (moved when I was 3 from the flats at Mixenden) and we had at least a couple of powercuts most of the earlier years.

[@buy.to.let.britain]

tourists ☺

[@judithparker4608]

MORE BENEFITEERS THAN BAUBLES...MARITIME

[@elizabethbower2168]

Interesting video but the narrator is very disjointed

[@paulolister3611]

She brought shame on my family name barren and fruitless zero decendency. She's was my great aunty's 2nd cousin she didn't leave us a shilling

[@jonathoncoates9170]

Nice little town is Halifax. Known now as halistan & full of pavement spitters??? Shame really the invasion came long ago.

[@davidhartley9115]

Don’t go lol it’s where I was born the town is a cesspool plain and simple.