HUDDERSFIELD LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL An index of articles from Issue 1 Autumn 1990 to date, and from its predecessor The Newsletter from 1983-1990. ALMONDBURY In mercy of the Lord: Almondbury Court Rolls. Part 1 1627-1641.Edited by Peter Hirst [Reviewed in 22, May 2011] OLD CLERGY HOUSE, ALMONDBURY Its role as a refuge for Basque children during the Spanish Civil War is describe in Aid for Spain. By Alan Brooke 24, May 2013. ARCHITECTS From miserable village to town of great character: from builder to architect. Ben Stocks and the growth of the architectural profession in Huddersfield. By Brian Haigh 21, Winter 2009-2010 ARDEN-BROWN, SYLVIA [Obituary of long-standing Society member] 24, May 2013. ARMY RECRUITMENT Recruits for the haver cake lads By J H Rumsby Newsletter 2, 1984 ASIAN IMMIGRANTS Asian voices. By Nafhesa Ali 22, May 2011 Three job offers in one day! Part one: the story of a Heckmondwike Community By Waseem Riaz 27, 2016/2017 Part two: Here to stay at the crossroads By Waseem Riaz 28, 2017/2018 South Asian food and song: yesterday s practices repeated in Lockwood today. By Razia Parveen 28, 2017/2018 ATKINSON, THOMAS Saint Valentine s day catastrophe: the Colne Bridge cotton mill fire and the story of a brave little girl who survived. By Richard Heath 28, 2017/2018 [Atkinson was the owner of Colne Bridge Mill] BALTIC CYGNETS Brief encounters : Baltic hospital workers in and around Huddersfield, 1946-1951. By Frank Grombir 23, May 2012 BANK HOLIDAYS IN 1934 The sun had his hat on - at not infrequent intervals [Holme Valley festivities in 1934] 16, Winter 2004-2005 BANKS Huddersfield Banking Company: the first 40 years
By David Griffiths 25, 2014/2015 BAKESTONES By David Shore 13, Winter 2002/2003 BASQUE CHILDREN Aid for Spain. By Alan Brooke 24, May 2013. BATH VILLA [The house that became Corra Lynn] in Corra Lynn 18, Winter 2006-2007 BEAUMONT, ERNEST [Obituary of former Society member and dialect specialist] 24, May 2013. BEGGING A beggar s income [The earnings of a lame beggar, Joseph Walker, in 1860] 10, Winter 1999/2000. BERRY, GODFREY in Godfrey Berry and Thomas Wrigley: two pioneers of early urban Huddersfield By David Griffiths 19, Winter 2007-2008 BERRY BROW The end of the stone mason s yard: Berry Brow 16, Winter 2004-2005 Berry Brow station s stone carving by John Charles Stocks. Featured in Kirklees curiosities I ve never seen owt like it! By Carol Hardy 28, 2017/2018 BICKERSTETH S VISITATION Bishop Bickersteth s Visitation at Huddersfield, 1858 By J Addy Newsletter 5, 1986 BLACKMOORFOOT METHODIST CHAPEL Memories of Blackmoorfoot Methodist Chapel By Elaine Crabtree Winter 2005-2006 BOWER, JOSEPH Flooded but unbowed [The Peter Pan grocer of Hinchliffe Mill who lived to tell the tale, 82 years later] Winter 2005-2006 BRICK, LLEWELYN Two Lindley lives The First World War By David Verguson 25, 2014/2015 BRIGHOUSE, SAMUEL [Salendine Nook man who became a founding father of Vancouver, British Columbia]
in Vancouver, British Columbia: an early Huddersfield connection. By Martin Hirst 19, Winter 2007-2008 BROADBENT, JOHN [Obituary of founder member and long -serving Treasurer of the Society] By Dr Eagles 10, Winter 1999/2000 BROOK, JOSEPH Another German connection-joseph Brook of Greenhead. By David Griffiths 24, May 2013. BICYCLING Among the best : the Lindley Bicycle Club up to the First World War By David Verguson 27, 2016-2017 CAMELOT Huddersfield and the quest for Camelot. By Alan Brooke 28, 2017-2018. [A detailed review of two recent discoveries of the northern Camulodunum ] CAMULODUNUM Huddersfield and the quest for Camelot By Alan Brooke 28, 2017/2018 CANALS Some notes on the Huddersfield Shipping Company and its associates by E A H Haigh Newsletter 1, 1983 CARTER, SAM A hard and rough life: the miner s story 16, Winter 2004-2005 CASTLE HILL Castle Hill and the golden cradle By Cathy McLester Winter 2005-2006 Huddersfield and the quest for Camelot. By Alan Brooke 28, 2017/2018 CATHOLIC REVIVAL: ANGLICAN CHURCH The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002 CATHOLIC SCHOOL St Patrick s Roman Catholic School 1832-1894 By Ros Whitaker 25, 2014/2015 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce Year Book 1918 By Anne C Brook 27, 2016/2017 CHILDREN S GAMES Games we played
By Clifford Stephenson 3, Autumn 1991 CHORAL MUSIC Yorkshire Sings: a musical and social phenomenon. By Angela Griffith 11, Winter 2000/2001 CHRISTMAS IN VERSE A merry kersmiss [A wistful dialect poem from 1934] 16, Winter 2004-2005 CINEMA IN HUDDERSFIELD Mark Freedman and the early cinema in Huddersfield. By Anne C Brook 26, 2015/2016 CIVIC BUILDINGS IN HUDDERSFIELD Before the Corporation: Huddersfield s early civic buildings By David Griffiths 23, May 2012 CLIFF RECREATION GROUND It s always windy up there. A short history of Cliff Rec. By Vivien Aizlewood and Deborah Wyles. Reviewed by David Cockman 26, 2015/2016 COLNE BRIDGE Saint Valentine s Day catastrophe: the Colne Bridge cotton mill fire and the story of a little girl who survived. By Richard Heath 28, 2017/2018 COLNE (RIVER) Colne or Holme? By George Redmonds 26, 2015/2016 COLNE VALLEY MEMORIES [Jean Lunn s personal recollections of Slaithwaite s history] 16, Winter 2004-2005 COMMISSIONERS FOR LIGHTING, WATCHING AND CLEANSING [Two members of Huddersfield s first municipal institution ] in Godfrey Berry and Thomas Wrigley: two pioneers of early urban Huddersfield 19, Winter 2007-2008 [A particularly energetic and ubiquitous founding member is also profiled in John Sutcliffe JP (1775/6-18580 a very useful man [20] Winter 2008-2009 CO-OPERATIVE SHOPS T Co-op. [Ernest Beaumont s dialect account of a village co-op in the 1930s] [Clifford Stephenson also had fond childhood memories of shopping with a divi ] Both included in T Co-op 12, Winter 2001/2002
CORRA LYNN Corra Lynn: memories of theatreland in Huddersfield in the late 40s By June Strong 18, Winter 2006-2007 CRICKET Fancy weavers and famous cricketers: some aspects of the early history of Lascelles Hall cricket Club. By Bob Horne 23, May 2012 CROSLAND MOOR WORKHOUSE A week in Crosland Moor Workhouse [Three articles by Pauperis from the Colne Valley Guardian, October 1900] 10, Winter 1999/2000 DANCE Did they tell you about the dancing? By Cyril Pearce 28, 2017/2018 [The HLHS Chair reflects on his interview for the BBC TV programme Our dancing town, which featured Huddersfield plus Barnsley, Skipton and York] DARTMOUTH, EARLS of Farnley Tyas and the Dartmouth Estate in the 1800s and early 1900s By Caroline Page 28, 2017/2018 DARWIN, THOMAS [Local transport entrepreneur, born in Holmfirth in 1853, who operated from Fartown Mews in Flint Street, Huddersfield in Travelling around Huddersfield 1880-1920 By Jan Strine 27, 2016/2017] DEANHOUSE WORKHOUSE It was a cosy day in the workhouse [A Holmfirth Express reporter s rose-tinted visit in August 1914] 11, Winter 2000/2001 DENMAN, CLARENCE B A Canadian soldier s grave in Upperthong. By John H Rumsby 24,May 2013. A Canadian soldier s grave in Upperthong: a postscript. By John H Rumsby 26, 2015/2016 DEWSBURY MOOR The view from the corner shop: the Diary of a Yorkshire shop assistant in wartime. By Kathleen Hey. Edited by Patricia & Robert Malcolmson. Review by Brian Haigh 28, 2017/2018 DIALECT Dialect in a druggist s diary; Huddersfield 1815-1851 By Jennifer Stead 10, Winter 1999/2000 The language of the Heavy Woollen District or Shoddy and Mungo By Ernest Beaumont 18, Winter 2006-2007
DISCOVER HUDDERSFIELD Discover Huddersfield a progress report. By David Griffiths 25, 2014/2015 Discover Huddersfield-continuing progress. By David Griffiths 26, 2015/2016 An expanded walks programme and a third heritage information board planned for the Piazza. By David Griffiths 28, 2017/2018 DOCTORING THE HOLME VALLEY Everyone had to have a bottle By Dr Betty Eagles 7, Winter 1995/96 DOMESDAY BOOK Domesday for Huddersfield. By Natalie Spencer 23, May 2012 DYESTUFFS Read Holiday and Sons. By J F I Whittell Newsletter 2. 1988 EAGLES, Dr BRIAN (1925-2002) [Special issue devoted to the much respected Society member and former Chairman] 14, Spring 2003 EDGERTON CEMETERY [A project to record and index the gravestones] By Mike Hardcastle 21, Winter 2009-2010 ELECTIONS The Great Yorkshire Election of 1807: mass politics in the age of reform Book review by Keith Brockhill 27, 2016/2017 ELECTRICITY IN HOLME Power to the people; Holme and electricity [Article based on an account in the Holmfirth Express 24th February 1934 submitted by K Hollingworth 7, Winter 1995/96] ELLIS, MARY [Obituary of long standing society member by Ruby Coull, with Miss Ellis s own account of cricket spectating in Fartown] 13, Winter 2002/2003 EMLEY WOODHOUSE [Memories of life on the farm in the 1920s] By Richard Eric Batley 18, Winter 2006-2007 EMPIRE CINEMA, HUDDERSFIELD In Mark Freedman and the early cinema in Huddersfield. By Anne C Brook 26, 2015/2016
ENGLAND, NORAH Obituary of one of the Society s longest serving members. 26, 2015/2016 EUROPEAN EXILES Czech me out! Introducing next year s editor By Frank Grombir 27, 2016/2017 [An authority on Eastern European exile communities, Czech born Frank describes his own life in the Czech Republic and Huddersfield] EYRE, ADAM In the steps of Adam Eyre. Report of Society Excursion in Newsletter 2, 1988 FARMING WITH HORSES Who ad a thowt thed a been a farm baht osses. By Ernest Beaumont 13, Winter 2002/2003 FARNLEY TYAS Farnley Tyas and the Dartmouth Estate in the 1800s and early 1900s By Caroline Page 28, 2017/2018 FARTOWN A new look at the place name Fartown. By George Redmonds 22, May 2011 FARTOWN LODGE [in Travelling around Huddersfield 1880-1920 By Jan Strine 27, 2016/2017] FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES Early fire insurance policies of the Huddersfield area By Edward J Law 2, Spring 1991 FIRST WORLD WAR A Canadian soldier s grave in Upperthong By John H Rumsby 24, May 2013 A Canadian soldiers grave in Upperthong: a postscript. By John H Rumsby 26, 2015/2016 Huddersfield in World War 1. Edited by Brian Heywood. Review of the book produced by a HLF- funded project By K Brockhill 26, 2015/2016 Huddersfield War Hospital By Martyn Richardson 25, 2014/2015 Two Lindley lives the First World War. By David Verguson 25, 2014/2015 The war from the home front: one man and his experiences in the Great War. By Brian Haigh 28, 2017/2018 The Great War and the Vicar of Huddersfield: Huddersfield s Parish Church and the war effort.
By Robert Piggott 28, 2017/2018 FOOD POISONING Fit to eat? [Stanley Sheeard recalls the sad story of the Hirst family s corned beef dinner, in 1914] 9, Winter 1998/99 FOOTBALL Hail Town! Thrice Champions: the glory days of Huddersfield Town Football Club. By Jordan Diggle, Jack McLean, Bill Parkin and Jack Yard 25, 2014/2015 FREE, LYNN FRANCES (1935-2017) A personal tribute to a well known and much respected local historian. By Janette Martin 28, 2017/2018 FREEDMAN, MARK Mark Freedman and the early cinema in Huddersfield. By Anne C Brook 26, 2015/2016 FREEDMAN, MEYER [Son of Marks Freedman, Manager of the Empire Cinema in Huddersfield awarded the Military Medal in 1916 in The communal history of the Jews in Huddersfield, By Anne C Brook 25, 2014/2015] FREEDMAN, MYER In Mark Freedman and the early cinema in Huddersfield. By Anne C Brook 26, 2015/2016 GERMAN CONNECTIONS TO HUDDERSFIELD In search of Martha stocks By David Cockman 23, May 2012 An encounter in Lutzschena: an intriguing footnote on the search for Martha Stocks By David Cockman 24, May 2013. Another German connection-joseph Brook of Greenhead. By David Griffiths 24, May 2013. GLEDHILL, SAMUEL GUDGER Two Lindley lives the First World War By David Verguson 25, 2014/2015 GOLCAR Interesting presentation [Report of a Golcar fund raising event to provide the handicapped Mr Willie Hartley with a means of honest and comfortable livelihood a piano organ and donkey] 1, Winter 1999/2000 GOODCHILD, JOHN F (1935-2017) Obituary of the prominent West Yorkshire local historian and archivist. By Hilary Haigh 28, 2017/2018 GRASSY CLIFF HOSPITAL By Allan Place
21, Winter 2009-2010 GREENHEAD PARK Secured for the town: the story of Huddersfield s Greenhead Park. 2011. By David Griffiths [Reviewed in 22, May 2011] GROMBIR, FRANK Czech me out! Introducing next year s editor By Frank Grombir 27, 2016/2017 HAIGH, DAVID The Huddersfield based family firm of David Haigh and his descendants. By Christine Piper 26, 2015/2016. HAIGH, SAMUEL The case I suffer is for taking a few oats Part 1 By Pamela Cooksey 24, May 2013. The case that I suffer is for taking a few oats continued. Part two an afflicted man. By Pamela Cooksey 26, 2015/2016 HARTLEY, WALLACE Tragic hero [Review of a biography of the Titanic s bandmaster, who lived, briefly, in Huddersfield] Winter 2005-2006 HECKMONDWIKE Three job offers in one day! Part one: the story of a Heckmondwike community By Waseem Riaz 27, 2016/2017 Part two: here to stay at the crossroads By Waseem Riaz 28, 2017/2018. HEAVY WOOLLEN DISTRICT The language of the Heavy woollen District or Shoddy and Mungo By Ernest Beaumont 18, Winter 2006-2007 HEY, DAVID Professor David Hey 1938-2016 Obituary 27, 2016/2017 HINCHLIFFE, THOMAS The War from the home front: one man and his experiences in the Great War. By Brian Haigh 28, 2017/2018 HIRST, STAN [Memories of living in Springwood and working at David Brown s] 15, Winter 2003/2004 HOLME (RIVER) Colne or Holme? By George Redmonds 26, 2015/2016 HOLME URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Power to the people; Holme and electricity [Article based on account in the Holmfirth Express 24th February 1934 submitted by K Hollingworth 7, Winter 1995/6] HOLME VALLEY Surviving medieval features in the Holme Valley By Peter Burton 25, 2014/2015 HOLME VALLEY HOSPITAL [Childhood memories of her father s role as doctor there] in Everyone had to have a bottle by Dr Betty Eagles 7, Winter 1995/96 HOLME VALLEY SMALLPOX Smallpox in the Holme Valley 1892-3 By Dr J B Eagles 14, Spring 2003 HOLME VILLAGE The war from the home front: one man and his experiences in the Great War. By Brian Haigh 28, 2017/2018 [The wartime experiences of Thomas Hinchliffe, born in Holme in 1874] HOLMFIRTH It s always windy up there. A short history of Cliff Rec. By Vivien Aizlewood and Deborah Wiles. David Cockman reviews this book, produced as part of a HLF-funded project to restore Clff Recreation Ground 26, 2015/2016 Savouring the past [John Lawson s dialect recollections of a Holmfirth institution, Tommy Castle s Pie Shop. From the Holmfirth Express 1914] 11, Winter 2000/2001 Lancashire &Yorkshire Railway: the Holmfirth Branch By John Rawlinson 27, 2016/2017 That Andy Warhol moment By David Cockman 27, 2016/2017 [The author s experience of filming an excerpt of Michael Portillo s Great Railway journeys in Holmfirth] HOLMFIRTH MILITITARY COTTAGE HOSPITAL [The role of this remarkable institution in] A Canadian soldier s grave in Upperthong. By John H Rumsby 24. May 2013. HOLMFIRTH SING in Yorkshire Sings: a musical and social phenomenon By Angel Griffiths 11, Winter 2000/2001 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH An important accession to the Established Religion; Holy Trinity and its churchyard By John C Brook 3, Autumn 1991 HONLEY MEMORIES Happy times in Honley
[George Hirst s memories of his early life in the Honley of the 1920s and 1930s, submitted by his son Martin] 18, Winter 2006-2007 HONLEY FIND Martin Hirst describes the Brigantian hoard found in 1893 and related by Mrs Jagger. 15, Winter 2003/2004 HORSFALL, WILLIAM (Murder of) A new look at an old dispute. By Leslie Robinson 9, Winter 1998/99 The Luddites and the affect their actions had on the Horsfall Family By Cathy McLester [20] Winter 2008-2009 HOUDINI The great escape...in Huddersfield [An Examiner account of Harry Houdini s visit to Huddersfield in 1911] Winter 2005-2006 HUDDERSFIELD BANKING COMPANY Huddersfield Banking Company: the first 40 years By David Griffiths 25, 2014/2015 HUDDERSFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce Year Book 1918 By Anne C Brook 27, 2016/2017 HUDDERSFIELD IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION [Biographical account of its first Chairman] John Sutcliffe JP (1775/6-1858) a very useful man By David Griffiths [20] Winter 2008-2009 HUDDERSFIELD IN 1825-26 Before Victoria; Huddersfield in the early 19th century. [Article from the Huddersfield Examiner of 1883, submitted by Lesley Kipling] 9,Winter 1998/99 HUDDERSFIELD MEDICAL SOCIETY [An account of its history by Dr Eagles, himself a former Secretary], in The dawn of medical science in Huddersfield. 7. Winter 1995/96] HUDDERSFIELD MEMORIES Requiem for Huddersfield. Carol Brierly s poetic recollection of a Huddersfield childhood 9, Winter 1998/99 HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY The Huddersfield Music Society: a short history By Hilary Norcliffe 24, May 2013. HUDDERSFIELD PARISH CHURCH
The Great War and the Vicar of Huddersfield: Huddersfield s Parish Church and the war effort. By Robert Piggott, 2017/2018 Reverend Henry Venn By DB Foss. Newsletter 7, 1988 HUDDERSFIELD PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION The Huddersfield Philanthropic Institution By John Halstead 25, 2014/2015 HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra: the music goes on By Ruth M Holmes 25, 2014/2015 HUDDERSFIELD SHIPPING COMPANY Some notes on the Huddersfield Shipping Company and its associates By E.A.Hilary Haigh [the first article from the Newsletter of 1983, reprinted to mark our periodical s 21st anniversary] 16, Winter 2004-2005 HUDDERSFIELD SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANIC INSTITUTE (HSMI) The Huddersfield Scientific and Mechanic Institute (HSMI): a response to John Halstead. By David Griffiths 26, 2015/2016 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB Hail Town! Thrice champions: the glory days of Huddersfield Town Football Club By Jordan Diggle, Jack McLean, Bill Parkin & Jack Yard 25, 2014/2015 HUDDERSFIELD TRANSPORT Travelling around Huddersfield 1880-1920 By Jan Scrine 27, 2016/2017 HUDDERSFIELD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES New deposits of the University of Huddersfield archives and special collections By Amy Devenney 23, May 2012 University of Huddersfield Archive Centre: work is under way on University s innovative new 2m archive centre By Professor Tim Thornton 25, 2014/2015 HUDDERSFIELD WAR HOSPITAL Huddersfield War Hospital By Martyn Richardson 25, 2014/2015 HULL, ARTHUR EAGLEFIELD [Founder of the Huddersfield Music Society] The Huddersfield Music Society; a short history. By Hilary Norcliffe 24, May 2013. IMMIGRATION Asian voices. By Nafhesa Ali 22, May 2011 Brief encounters : Baltic hospital workers in and around Huddersfield 1946-1951
By Frank Grombir 23, May 2012 Czech me out! Introducing next year s editor By Frank Grombir 27, 2016/2017 [Born in the Czech Republic, the Journal s new editor describes his own life in the Czech Republic and Huddersfield] Part two: Here to stay at the crossroads. By Waseem Riaz 28, 2017-2018 [Part two of the Heckmondwike community s story] Part on: Three job offers in one day Part one: the story of a Heckmondwike Community By Waseem Riaz 27, 2016/2017 Kirklees Heritage Forum Report on the work of this informal body By Bill Roberts 27, 2016/2017 South Asian food and song: yesterday s practices repeated in Lockwood today. By Razzia Parveen 28, 2017/2018 ISLAM Part two: here to stay at the crossroads By Waseem Riaz 2018, 2017/2018 [The second part of Part one: Three job offers in one day the story of a Heckmondwike community 27, 2016/2017, looks at the development of Islamic life as new generations of Pakistani immigrants settled permanently]] IVANHOE S Oh, just think of Huddersfield, that s Christmas enough!: the Sex Pistols at Ivanhoe s, 25 December 1977 By Martyn Richardson 28, 2017/2018 JEWS The communal history of Jews in Huddersfield By Anne C Brook 25, 2014/2015 JONES, C H And then along came (CH) Jones: personality, politics and the crisis in policing in Huddersfield in the mid-1850s. By Professor David Taylor 26, 2015/2016 KIPLING, LESLEY Obituary of local historian, Luddite expert and political activist 25, 2014/2015 KIRKLEES CURIOSITIES Kirklees curiosities I ve never seen owt like it! By Carol Hardy 28, 2017/2018 [Some favourite examples of odd and unusual items from the Kirklees Curiosities website] KIRKLEES HERITAGE FORUM By Bill Roberts 26, 2015/2016 Report on recent activities, including those generated by the passage of the Tour de France in 2014 By Bill Roberts 27, 2016/2017
Recent developments, including a HLHS visit to the Anwar-E-Madina Jamia Mosque in Ravensthorpe and its photographic exhibition of British Indian Army soldiers in the First World War. By Bill Roberts 28, 2017/2018 LAIDLAW, ANN ROBENA An encounter in Lutzschena: an intriguing footnote on the search for Martha Stocks. By David Cockman 24, May 2013. LASCELLES HALL Lascelles Hall By K. Brockhill Newsletter 4, 1985 LASCELLES HALL CRICKET CLUB Fancy weavers and famous cricketers: some aspects of the early history of Lascelles Hall Cricket Club By Bob Home 23, May 2012 LAW, EDWARD Obituary of prolific author, genealogist, and Society member. 25, 2014/2015 LEPTON COLLIERY A hard and rough life: the miner s story. By Sam Carter 16, Winter 2004-2005 LINDLEY Lindley in the Great War. By David Verguson 24, May 2013. Two Lindley lives the First World War By David Verguson 25, 2014/2015 Among the best : the Lindley Bicycle Club up to the First World War By David Verguson 27, 2016/2017 LINTHWAITE BAND Edwin Swift: the man. [20] Winter 2008-2009 LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN HUDDERSFIELD Before the Corporation: Huddersfield s early civic buildings By David Griffiths 23, May 2012 LOCAL HISTORIANS The local historian as activist; some belated thoughts on the life and times of D.F.E. Sykes By Cyril Pearce 11, Winter 2000/2001 LOCKWOOD South Asian food and song: yesterday s practices repeated in Lockwood today By Razzia Parveen 28, 2017/2018 LONGWOOD SING in Yorkshire sings: a musical and social phenomenon
by Angel Griffith 11, Winter 2000/2001 LONGLEY OLD HALL Longley Old Hall C.1300-1900. By Patricia Ann Dyson 9, Winter 1998/99 At home with the Huddersfield House detectives [Report of a Society visit] 16, Winter 2004-2005 LONGLEY WOODS [Account of a footpath dispute in the 1860 s] In the picture (Longley woods) By Patricia A Dyson, 8, Winter 1997/98 LUDDITES The visiting of the families of Luddite sufferers in the area of Huddersfield by Joseph Wood, Minister of the Quakers. By Pam Cooksey 15, Winter 2003/2004 [Luddite trials 1812] A new look at an old dispute By Leslie Robinson 9, Winter 1998/99 Luddites in my life By Lesley Kipling Newsletter 8, 1988 MARKETS Markets, fairs and tolls in Huddersfield By E Law Newsletter 3, 1985 MARSDEN Early Marsden mills By A Brooke Newsletter 4, 1985 Marsden Mechanics Institute before the Hall By Steve Challenger 26, 2015/2016 Marsden Mechanics Institute: the Hall and final years By Steve Challenger 27, 2016/2017 Marsden s first bridge [Costs of the bridge of 1775] 10, Winter 1999/2000 MARSDEN, ISAAC (Methodist preacher) Isaac Marsden By T Wainwright Newsletter 9, 1989 MASON, JAMES Home James and Huddersfield s musical traditions By Brian Haigh 27, 2016/2017 MAYORS OF HUDDERSFIELD Marie Louise Middlebrook-Haigh: a life dedicated to public service in Huddersfield By Christine Piper 27, 2016/2017
[The career of Huddersfield s second woman Mayor] MECHANICS INSTITUTES Marsden Mechanics Institute before the Hall By Steve Challenger 26, 2015/2016 Marsden Mechanics Institute: the Hall and final years By Steve Challenger 27, 2016/2017 MEDICAL SCIENCE IN HUDDERSFIELD The dawn of medical science in Huddersfield By Dr Eagles 7, Winter 1995/6 MEDIEVAL GRAFITTI Medieval graffiti: the lost voices of England s churches Book review by David Cockman 27, 2016/2017 MEDIEVAL LANDSCAPES Surviving medieval features in the Holme Valley By Peter Burton 25, 2014/2015 MELLOR, WRIGHT (Freeman) Wright Mellor of Huddersfield By H W Mellor Newsletter 10, 1990 MIDDLEBROOK-HAIGH, Marie Louise Marie Louise Middlebrook-Haigh: a life dedicated to public service in Huddersfield. By Christine Piper 27, 2016/2017 MILITIA The West York Militia in Napoleonic times. By E M Tittensor 5, Autumn 1993 MILLS Saint Valentine s Day catastrophe: the Colne Bridge cotton mill fire and the story of a brave little girl who survived. By Richard Heath 28, 2017/2018 MINING A hard and rough life: the miner s story [Sam Carter remembers starting work at Lepton Colliery in 1920] 16, Winter 2004-2005 Mining in the New Mill-Hepworth area By Stanley Garlick [20], Winter 2008-2009 MOODY, SARAH Saint Valentine s Day catastrophe: the Colne Bridge cotton mill fire and the story of a brave little girl who survived. By Richard Heath 28, 2017/2018 MOORHOUSE, ARTHUR A man of the 20th Century: the autobiography of Arthur Moorhouse
Joan Garside introduces extracts from her father s life story [an ordinary but remarkable man ] 15, Winter 2003/2004 MORTON, JOHN [Salendine Nook man who became a founding father of Vancouver, British Columbia] in Vancouver, British Columbia: an early Huddersfield connection By Martin Hirst 19, Winter 2007-2008 MOTORING TRAGEDY Tragedy at the Isle of sky [A Bank Holiday tragedy that cost five lives on Easter Monday 1934] Newspaper reports submitted by K Hollingworth 11, Winter 2000/2001 MRS PARKIN Mrs Parkin s parkin. [A Berry Brow story in verse] By Lesley Abernethy 23, May 2012 MUSIC IN HUDDERSFIELD The Huddersfield Music Society: a short history. By Hilary Norcliffe 24, May 2013. Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra: the music goes on By Ruth M Holmes 25, 2014/2015 Home James and Huddersfield s musical traditions By Brian Haigh 27, 2016/2017 NEWSOME Newsome in 1930 By Stanley Morris Winter 2005-2006 NONCONFORMITY Who were the Colne Valley Scapegoats? By Mike Shaw 28, 2017/2018 OLD CLERGY HOUSE, ALMONDBURY Its role as a refuge for Basque children during the Spanish Civil War is described in Aid for Spain By Alan Brooke 24, May 2013. OXFORD MOVEMENT The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield. By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002 PADDOCK Paddock Junior Infant & Nursery School Edited by John Rawlinson 26, 2015/2016 [Followed by an article from the year 6 pupils, The story of chocolate. PARKS Springwood Huddersfield s lost park. By David Griffiths 22, May 2011
Secured for the town: the story of Huddersfield s Greenhead Park. By David Griffiths. 2011[Reviewed in 22, May 2011] PETFORD, ALAN Obituary of eminent local historian, one of the great teachers 26, 2015/2016 PIG KILLING IN SCHOLES [The remarkable record of porcine destruction carried out by Jonas Littlewood of Scholes, near Holmfirth, from the Colne Valley Guardian c.1929] 10, Winter 1999/2000 PLACE NAMES A new look at the place name Fartown. By George Redmonds 22, May 2011 POLICE IN HUDDERSFIELD And then along came (CH) Jones: personality, politics and the crisis in policing in Huddersfield in the mid-1850s. By Professor David Taylor 26, 2015/2016 Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies: policing by consent in Huddersfield and the Huddersfield district in the mid-nineteenth century. Review of Emeritus Professor David Taylor s book, by Keith Brockhill 28, 2017-2018 PONTEY, WILLIAM William Pontey: Huddersfield s 19th century Evelyn By E Law Newsletter 8, 1988 POOR RELIEF see also WORKHOUSES POOR RELIEF IN WOOLDALE Keeping the wolf from the door; relief of the poor in Victorian Wooldale 13, Winter 2002/2003 PORRITT, NORMAN Norman Porritt: Huddersfield s surgeon novelist. By Dr J B Eagles 6, Winter 1994/95 [also in the special commemorative issue. 14, Spring 2003] PRIMROSE HILL Primrose Hill during the past hundred years. [Extracts from the Huddersfield Weekly Examiner 21 April 1956] and Primrose Hill Working Men s Club 1894-1944 [From Fred Sykes pamphlet of 1944] 15, Winter 2003/2004 PUNK ROCK Oh, just think of Huddersfield, that s Christmas enough! : the Sex Pistols at Ivanhoe s, 25 December 1977 By Martyn Richardson 28, 2017/2018
QUAKERS The visiting of the families of Luddite sufferers in the area of Huddersfield by Joseph Wood, Minister of the Quakers. By Pam Cooksey 15, Winter 2003/2004. Reprinted in issue 23, May 2012. The case I suffer is for taking a few oats Part 1 [The transportation of Samuel Haigh of Denby, whose parents were members of the High Flatts Quaker Meeting] By Pamela Cooksey 24, May 2013. Joseph Wood1750-1821: a Yorkshire Quaker1750-1821: a Yorkshire Quaker, an introduction to his life, ministry and writings. By Pamela Cooksey. 2010. [reviewed in 22, May v2011] RADCLIFFE, Sir DAVID Sir David Radcliffe: a great Victorian son of Huddersfield By E Law Newsletter 8, 1988 RADIO IN HUDDERSFIELD All Huddersfield our town on the wireless in the 1920s. By Christine Verguson 26, 2015/2016 RAGGED SHOOLS For the support of indigent and neglected children: one of the greatest movements of Victorian philanthropy. [Article based on information about the Huddersfield Ragged School in Fitzwilliam Street] 18, Winter 2006-2007 RAILWAY STATION Buying a station [The 1968 purchase of Huddersfield Railway Station by the Corporation] by Clifford Stephenson 2, Spring 1991 RAILWAYS Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway: the Holmfirth Branch By John Rawlinson 27, 2016/2017 That Andy Warhol moment By David Cockman 27, 2016/2017 [How a local historian contributed to the BBC s Great Railway Journeys] RAMSDEN HOUSE MURAL Murals from Venice; a cover story By Clifford Stephenson 4, Autumn 1992 RAWLINSON, JOHN Childhood memories of World War 2 By John Rawlinson 23, May 2012 REFUGEES Aid for Spain [Alan Brook explains the background to the Spanish Civil War and how it led to Basque children coming to Almondbury in 1937] 24, May 2013.
RESEARCH Resources for historical research in Kirklees. By Janette Martin 22, May 2011 REVELL, MARGARET The pebbles on the wall: a childhood memoir By Margaret Revell, edited by her son the late Martin Woodhead. Introduction and selections by Bill Roberts 22 May 2011 and further extracts in 23, May 2012 RIVERS Colne or Holme? [Further thoughts, based on evidence gathered since the original article was published in Old West Riding in 1982] By George Redmonds 26, 2015/2016 ROBIN HOOD HOUSE, BERRY BROW [Wartime memories] An unexpected discovery By Valerie Adkin 18, Winter 2006-2007 ROBINSON, GILLIAN [Obituary of Society member and great-granddaughter of little Abe, the Bishop of Berry Brow ] 7, Winter 1995/96 ROBINSON, LESLIE [Potted biography of local historian, Society member and owner of Skelmanthorpe s small textile museum] 19, Winter 2007-2008 A cottage industry preserving Skelmanthorpe s past. Copy of an article from the Journal of 1993, presented as a tribute to the late Leslie Robinson 26, 2015/2016 ROCKLEY, ROBERT A melancholy affair. By George Redmonds 24, May 2013. ROLT, CECIL HENRY, Canon The Great War and the Vicar of Huddersfield: Huddersfield s Parish Church and the war effort. By Robert Piggott 28, 2017/2018 [Canon Rolt was Vicar in the early war years] ROMAN TEMPLE A Roman temple in Huddersfield By Dylan Martin 25, 2014/2015 ROYALTY Crown and country: a look into royal interactions throughout the region. By Sarah Kellett 22, May 2011 ROYDS HALL Huddersfield War Hospital
By Martyn Richardson 25, 2014/2015 RUGBY LEAGUE Harold Wagstaff (1981-1939): the best in the Northern Union. By David Thorpe 22, May 2011 SCAPEGOAT HILL Who were the Colne Valley scapegoats? By Mike Shaw 28, 2017/2018 ST. PATRICK S ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL St Patrick s Roman Catholic School 1832-1894 By Ros Whitaker 25, 2014/2015 ST. THOMAS CHURCH The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002 SAUSAGE MAKING IN SLAITHWAITE [The work of the Waterside Casings Co, described in the Colne Valley Guardian c.1929] 10, Winter 1999/2000 SECOND WORLD WAR The view from the corner shop: the Diary of a Yorkshire shop assistant in wartime. By Kathleen Hey. Edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson. Review by Brian Haigh 28, 2017/2018 SEX PISTOLS Oh, just think of Huddersfield, that s Christmas enough! : the Sex Pistols at Ivanhoe s, 25 December 1977 By Martin Richardson, 28, 2017/2018 SHEEAD, STANLEY [Potted biography of the Skelmanthorpe local historian and former Society Chairman] 19, Winter 2007-2008 SHODDY AND MUNGO In The language of the Heavy Woollen District By Ernest Beaumont 18, Winter 2006-2007 SHOPKEEPERS OF HUDDERSFIELD [Former shopkeepers, ex-alderman Hellawell s recollections &reminiscences]. Submitted by E Law 5, Autumn1993 SHOPPING IN HUDDERSFIELD c.1920s See Stephenson, Clifford. Eighty years remembered Part 2 SINGS Yorkshire sings: a musical and social phenomenon By Angela Griffith 11, Winter 2000/2001 SKELMANTHORPE
A cottage industry preserving Skelmanthorpe s past [A brief account of the Queen Street cottage museum] 5, Autumn 1993 [Skelmanthorpe Flag] Skelmanthorpe s flag of freedom By F Lawton 2, Spring 1991 [Skelmanthorpe Riot] [The navvies and natives conflict in 1874] in Roads and riots in the Dearne Valley 12, Winter 2001/2002 [Skelmanthorpe School] Origins of Skelmanthorpe Board School By T Wainwright Newsletter 3, 1985 SLACK Huddersfield and the quest for Camelot. By Alan Brooke 28, 2017/2018 [The author dissects two recent claims, by Simon Keegan and Professor Peter Field, to have found the northern Camulodunum ] SLIPCOTE HILL see SCAPEGOAT HILL SMALLPOX Smallpox in the Holme Valley 1892-3 By Dr J B Eagles 14, Spring 2003 and Newsletter 6, 1987 SPRING GROVE SCHOOL [Personal memories] By S Hirst 21, Winter 2009-2010 SPRINGWOOD HALL Springwood Huddersfield s lost park By David Griffiths 22, May 2011 STARKEY FAMILY [The mill-owning family and their new church at Longroyd Bridge] in the Oxford Movement in Huddersfield By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002 STANDEDGE TUNNEL [Report of a Tunnel platelayer s retirement after 48 years service, from the Colne Valley Guardian c.1929] 10, Winter 1999/2000 STEPHENSON, CLIFFORD [Alderman and Freeman of Huddersfield County Borough. Enthusiastic local historian] Clifford Stephenson: an appreciation and anthology By Dr J B Eagles 4, Autumn 1992 [Also in special commemorative issue,14, Spring 2003]By C Stephenson Newsletter 10, 1990 Eighty years remembered 1906-1986, Part 2
By C Stephenson 1, Autumn 1990 [Also in 21st anniversary edition 16, Winter 2004-2005] in All Huddersfield our town on the wireless in the 1920s. By Christine Verguson 26. 2015/2016 STOCKS, BEN From miserable village to town of great character: from builder to architect. Ben Stocks and the growth of the architectural profession in Huddersfield By Brian Haigh 21, Winter 2009-2010 STOCKS, MARTHA In search of Martha By David Cockman 23, May 2012. In search of Martha Stocks. Part 2 [Continues the story of her remarkable life in Germany and explains how the surgeon s daughter from Holmfirth casts a long shadow over almost two hundred years of Anglo- German history ] By David Cockman 24, May 2013. STONE MASON The end of an era: the stone mason s yard - Berry Brow 16, Winter 2004-2005 STREET ENTERTAINER Interesting presentation. [Report of a Golcar fund raising event, to provide the handicapped Mr Willie Hartley with a means of honest and comfortable livelihood - a piano organ and donkey] 1, Winter 1999/2000 SUFFRAGETTES Never was there such a time: Huddersfield suffragettes in 1907. By J M Stevens Newsletter 9, 1989 SUTCLIFFE, JOHN John Sutcliffe J.P. (1775/6-1858) a very useful man By David Griffiths [20] Winter 2008-2009 SWIFT, EDWIN Edwin Swift: the man [Biography of the famous Linthwaite bandsman, originally published as a pamphlet in 1904] [20] Winter 2008-2009 SWIFT, JOHN (Druggist) Dialect in a Druggist s diary: Huddersfield 1815-1851 By Jennifer Stead 10, Winter 1999/2000 SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS An orchestral tradition; Mr Watkinson remembers [Submitted by E Law from the Examiner of 1911]
SYKES, D F E The local historian as activist; some belated thoughts on the life and times of D.F.E. Sykes By Cyril Pearce 11, Winter 2000/2001 SYNAGOGUES The communal history of the Jews in Huddersfield By Anne C Brook 25, 2014/2015 TAYLOR HILL PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH Memories of Taylor Hill Primitive Methodist Church. Written by Mrs Florence Hoyle after its closure in 1972, and submitted by Cathy McLester. 12, Winter 2001/2002 TEXTILES The Huddersfield based family firm of David Haigh and his descendants. By Christine Piper 26, 2015/2016 TEXTILE TERMINOLOGY In the language of the Heavy Woollen District or Shoddy and Mungo By Ernest Beaumont 18, Winter 2006-2007 THEATRE IN HUDDERSFIELD Corra Lynn: memories of theatre land in Huddersfield in the late 40s By June Strong 18, Winter 2006-2007 THEATRE ROYAL: HUDDERSFIELD [Some of its performers recalled] in Corra Lynn: memories of theatreland in Huddersfield in the late 40s. 18, Winter 2006-2007 THONGSBRIDGE Vintage petrol pump, a Theo Multi pump, c. 1930 outside Muslin Hall Garage. Featured in Kirklees curiosities I ve never seen owt like it! By Carol Hardy 28, 2017/2018 THORNHILL Report of excursion Newsletter 7, 1988 THORNTON LODGE Thornton Lodge By Edward J Law 25, 2014/2015 [This article about a typical gentleman s residence of the early 19 th century was reprinted as a tribute to the late Edward law, one of Huddersfield s most prolific local historians] THORNTON LODGE WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL [A dialect account of its work] 13, Winter 2002/2003 TOBACCONISTS IN HUDDERSFIELD Pestilential smoke By Edward J Law 1, Autumn 1990
TOMMY CASTLE S PIE SHOP Savouring the past [John Lawson s dialect recollections of a Holmfirth institution, from the Holmfirth Express 1914] 11, Winter 2000/2001 TRANSPORT IN THE DEARNE VALLEY Roads and riots in the Dearne valley [Extracts of articles by W H Senior on the 1824 Wakefield -Shepley Turnpike and Skelmanthorpe s navvies and natives riot in 1874] 12, Winter 2001/2002 TRANSPORTATION The case I suffer is for taking a few oats Part1. By Pamela Cooksey 24, May 2013. The case I suffer is for taking a few oats continued. Part two an afflicted man [Samuel Haigh s life in Australia] By Pamela Cooksey 26, 2015/2016 TRAVEL Travelling around Huddersfield 1880-1920 By Jan Scrine 27, 2016/2017 TUPPER-CAREY, ALBERT DARRELL, Canon The Great War and the Vicar of Huddersfield: Huddersfield s Parish Church and the war effort. By Robert Piggott 28, 2017/2018 [Canon Tupper-Carey was Vicar from 1917] TURNER, EDITH Huddersfield born and bred [Judith Robinson recalls her mother s life, which spanned almost a century] 11, Winter 2000/2001 UPPERTHONG A Canadian soldier s grave in Upperthong. By John H Rumsby 24, May 2013 A Canadian soldier s grave in Upperthong: a postscript. By John H Rumsby 26, 2015/2016 VANCOUVER Vancouver, British Columbia: an early Huddersfield connection. By Martin Hirst 19, Winter 2007-2008 VENN, HENRY Reverend Henry Venn. By D B Foss Newsletter 7, 1988 VICTORIAN HUDDERSFIELD Through Victorian eyes: memories of Nineteenth Century Huddersfield [Personal recollections of J W Robson and W Roebuck] submitted by E Law 4, Autumn 1992
WAGSTAFF, HAROLD Harold Wagstaff (1981-1939): the best in the Northern Union. By David Thorpe 22 May 2011 WAINWRIGHT, TOM [Obituary of former Denby Dale UDC Councillor, leading Methodist, local historian and founder member of this Society] 7, Winter 1995/96 WARTIME MEMORIES Memories of growing up in the war years [Jean Lunn s child s-eye view of Huddersfield life in the 1940s] 13, Winter 2002/2003 WASHDAY MEMORIES Washday at Grandma s (1940s to 1951) [Howard Robinson recalls the rituals of washday at Bolster Moor] 13, Winter 2002/2003 WESTGATE,HUDDERSFIELD [Personal account of the street,c.170 years ago] Westgate 70 years ago. Submitted from the Huddersfield Examiner by Lesley Kipling, 8, Winter 1997/98 WESSENDEN MEMORIES [Donald MacFarlane s recollections of life in the valley in the early 20th Century] 9, Winter 1998/99 WINDERMERE TRAGEDY [Huddersfield Examiner account of 4 fatalities on a Bank Holiday trip organised by the Huddersfield Young Men s Christian Association, 11th August 1877] Shocking accident at Windermere. submitted by Cathy McLester, 8, Winter 1997/98 WINTER WEATHER Global warming? [some snippets of serious winter weather, recalled by Howard Robinson] Winter 2005-2006 WINTERBOTTOM, Dr JOHN The cost of progress [The inventor of a machine for clearing mud from Turnpike roads ] By Pam Cooksey 10, Winter 1999/2000 WOOD, JOSEPH The visiting of the families of Luddite sufferers in the area of Huddersfield by Joseph Wood, Minister of the Quakers. By Pam Cooksey 15, Winter 2003/2004 Joseph Wood 1750-1821: a Yorkshire Quaker, an introduction to his life, ministry and writings.
By Pamela Cooksey. 2010 [Reviewed in 22, May 2011] WOODSOME HALL [Reprint of article from the Newsletter 1990, outlining the history of the Hall and explaining its special significance to this Society] By K Brockhill 13, Winter 2002/2003 WOOLDALE Poor relief in Wooldale: relief of the poor in Victorian Wooldale 13, Winter 2002/2003 WORKHOUSES A week in Crosland Moor Workhouse [Three articles by Pauperis from the Colne Valley Guardian, October 1910 1, Winter 1999/2000 It was a cosy day in the Workhouse [A Holmfirth Express reporter s rose-tinted view of Deanhouse in 1914] 11, Winter 2000/2001 WORLD WAR 1 see FIRST WORLD WAR WRIGLEY, THOMAS in Godfrey Berry and Thomas Wrigley: two pioneers of early urban Huddersfield By David Griffiths 19, Winter 2007-2008