City Guides
Halifax
Shopping
With the town in reach of the large shopping malls in neighbouring cities, Halifax’s own retailers tend be of the specialist, independent variety, offering a breath of fresh air for shoppers looking for unique items.
Halifax’s Piece Hall was built towards the end of the eighteenth-century as a market hall and courtyard for handloom weavers, and has since been converted into a shopping and cultural complex. The Piece Hall now comprises fifty retail units over three floors and a large market in the open courtyard, and has been officially recognized as being of historical importance.
With their unique location and reasonable rents, the units in the Piece Hall quickly became the home of a number of specialist, independent and unusual retail outlets. Shops currently occupying the units trade in goods such as clothes, alcohol, crafts, antiques, books, collectables, music, food, and there are tattoo parlour and training body.
A fleamarket is held in the courtyard on Thursdays, and a regular market on Saturdays. There are other, specialist markets held at different times throughout the year, including Christmas markets and continental markets. The Piece Hall is open seven days a week, from 10am until 5pm.
The Woolshops Shopping Centre was opened in 1983, just around the corner from the Piece Hall. Refurbished and extended in 2000, the centre is now home to more than eighty high street shops and a car park with just over three hundred spaces (with free parking on Sundays). Retailers currently occupying the units include River Island, HMV and Miss Selfridge, as well as two coffee shops and a café.
The shopping centre is open seven days a week, from 9am until 5:30pm Monday to Saturday, and 10am until 4pm on Sundays.
The Halifax Borough Market can be found in the heart of the town centre, located in a nineteenth-century, Grade II listed building. The interior has been painstakingly renovated, and the central clock and central roof dome remain. The market is open six days a week, from 9am until 5:30pm, and closed on Sundays. Stalls trade in a variety of goods, and there are currently just less than two hundred units.
The Market Arcade is a busy shopping street in the town centre, home to an array of charity shops, cafes and high street stores.
Halifax’s Piece Hall was built towards the end of the eighteenth-century as a market hall and courtyard for handloom weavers, and has since been converted into a shopping and cultural complex. The Piece Hall now comprises fifty retail units over three floors and a large market in the open courtyard, and has been officially recognized as being of historical importance.
With their unique location and reasonable rents, the units in the Piece Hall quickly became the home of a number of specialist, independent and unusual retail outlets. Shops currently occupying the units trade in goods such as clothes, alcohol, crafts, antiques, books, collectables, music, food, and there are tattoo parlour and training body.
A fleamarket is held in the courtyard on Thursdays, and a regular market on Saturdays. There are other, specialist markets held at different times throughout the year, including Christmas markets and continental markets. The Piece Hall is open seven days a week, from 10am until 5pm.
The Woolshops Shopping Centre was opened in 1983, just around the corner from the Piece Hall. Refurbished and extended in 2000, the centre is now home to more than eighty high street shops and a car park with just over three hundred spaces (with free parking on Sundays). Retailers currently occupying the units include River Island, HMV and Miss Selfridge, as well as two coffee shops and a café.
The shopping centre is open seven days a week, from 9am until 5:30pm Monday to Saturday, and 10am until 4pm on Sundays.
The Halifax Borough Market can be found in the heart of the town centre, located in a nineteenth-century, Grade II listed building. The interior has been painstakingly renovated, and the central clock and central roof dome remain. The market is open six days a week, from 9am until 5:30pm, and closed on Sundays. Stalls trade in a variety of goods, and there are currently just less than two hundred units.
The Market Arcade is a busy shopping street in the town centre, home to an array of charity shops, cafes and high street stores.
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