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 COURT ROLLS In mercy of the Lord, Almondbury Court Rolls ,part1 1627-41 Edited by Peter Hurst [Book reviewed in 22 May 2011, pp57-58]
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
ARMY RECRUITMENT Recruits for the haver cake lads By J H Rumsby Newsletter 2, 1984
ASIAN MIGRANTS TO HUDDERSFIELD Asian voices By Nafhesa Ali, Project Manager, centre for Oral History Research, University of Huddersfield 22, May 2011, pp7-25
BANK HOLIDAYS IN 1934 The sun had his hat on - at not infrequent intervals [Holme Valley festivities in 1934] 16, Winter 2004-2005
BAKESTONES By David Shore 13, Winter 2002/2003
BATH VILLA [The house that became Corra Lynn] in Corra Lynn 18, Winter 2006-2007
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
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
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
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
CATHOLIC REVIVAL: ANGLICAN CHURCH The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002
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
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
CROSLAND MOOR WORKHOUSE A week in Crosland Moor Workhouse [Three articles by “Pauperis” from the Colne Valley Guardian, October 1900] 10, Winter 1999/2000
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
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
DOCTORING THE HOLME VALLEY Everyone had to have a bottle by Dr Betty Eagles 7, Winter 1995/96
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
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 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
FARTOWN A new look at the place-name Fartown By George Redmonds 22, May 2011, pp26-30
FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES Early fire insurance policies of the Huddersfield area By Edward J Law 2, Spring 1991
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
GRASSY CLIFF HOSPITAL By Allan Place 21, Winter 2009-2010
GREENHEAD PARK Secured for the town: the story of Huddersfield‟s Greenhead Park By David Griffiths [Book reviewed in 22 May 2011, pp59-60]
HARTLEY, WALLACE Tragic hero [Review of a biography of the Titanic‟s bandmaster, who lived, briefly, in Huddersfield] Winter 2005-2006
HEAVY WOOLLEN DISTRICT The language of the Heavy woollen District or Shoddy and Mungo By Ernest Beaumont 18, Winter 2006-2007
HIRST, STAN [Memories of living in Springwood and working at David Brown‟s]
15, Winter 2003/2004
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 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
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 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 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
IMMIGRATION Asian voices By Nafhesa Ali 22, May 2011,pp7-25
JOSEPH WOOD 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
LASCELLES HALL Lascelles Hall By K. Brockhill Newsletter 4, 1985
LEPTON COLLIERY A hard and rough life: the miner‟s story. By Sam Carter 16, Winter 2004-2005
LINTHWAITE BAND Edwin Swift: “the man”. [20] Winter 2008-2009
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
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
LUDDITE TRIALS 1812 A new look at an old dispute By Leslie Robinson 9, Winter 1998/99
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 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, ISAAC (Methodist preacher) Isaac Marsden By T Wainwright Newsletter 9, 1989
MARSDEN‟S FIRST BRIDGE [Costs of the bridge of 1775] 10, Winter 1999/2000
MEDICAL SCIENCE IN HUDDERSFIELD The dawn of medical science in Huddersfield by Dr Eagles 7, Winter 1995/6
MELLOR, WRIGHT (Freeman) Wright Mellor of Huddersfield By H W Mellor Newsletter 10, 1990
MILITIA The West York Militia in Napoleonic times. By E M Tittensor 5, Autumn 1993
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
MOORHOUSE, ARTHUR A man of the 20th Century: the autobiography of Arthur Moorhouse Joan Garside introduces extracts from her father‟s lifestory [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 5 lives on Easter Monday 1934] Newspaper reports submitted by K Hollingworth 11, Winter 2000/2001
NEWSOME Newsome in 1930 By Stanley Morris Winter 2005-2006
OXFORD MOVEMENT The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield. By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002
PARKS
Secured for the Town: the story of Huddersfield‟s Greenhead Park By David Griffiths [Book reviewed in 22 May 2011, pp59-60]
Springwood-Huddersfield‟s lost Park By David Griffiths 22, May 2011, pp16-25
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, pp26-30
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
QUAKERS Joseph Wood 1750-1821, a Yorkshire Quaker, an introduction to his life, ministry and writings By Pamela Cooksey [Book reviewed in 22, May 2011, pp58-59] 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
RADCLIFFE, Sir DAVID Sir David Radcliffe: a great Victorian son of Huddersfield By E Law Newsletter 8, 1988
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
RAMSDEN HOUSE MURAL Murals from Venice; a cover story By Clifford Stephenson 4, Autumn 1992
RESEARCH RESOURCES Resources for historical research in Kirklees By Janette Martin 22, May 2011, pp49-55
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 local historian, Society member and owner of Skelmanthorpe‟s small textile museum] 19, Winter 2007-2008
ROYAL CONNECTIONS Crown and country: a look into Royal interactions throughout the region By Sarah Kellett 22, May, 2011, pp44-48
RUGBY LEAGUE Harold Wagstaff(1891-1939): the best in the Northern Union By David Thorpe 22, May 2011, pp34-43
ST. THOMAS‟S 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
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 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
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 Springwood-Huddersfield‟s lost Park By David Griffiths 22, May 2011, pp16-25
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]
STEPHENSON, CLIFFORD Eighty years remembered 1906-1986, Part 1 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]
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 Brain Haigh 21, Winter 2009-2010
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
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
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
THORNHILL Report of excursion Newsletter 7, 1988
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
TURNER, EDITH Huddersfield born and bred [Judith Robinson recalls her mother‟s life, which spanned almost a century] 11, Winter 2000/2001
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(1891-1939): the best in the Northern Union. By David Thorpe 22, May 2011, pp34-43
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 Joseph Wood 1750-1821: a Yorkshire Quaker, an introsuction to his life,ministry and writings [Review of book by Pamela Cooksey, 22, May 2011, pp58.59
WOODHEAD, MARGARET The pebbles on the wall: a childhood memoir. [Memories of childhood after 1914] By Margaret Revell, edited by her son, Martin Woodhead, selected by Bill Roberts 22, May 2011, pp31-33
W0ODSOME 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
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
WRIGLEY, THOMAS in Godfrey Berry and Thomas Wrigley: two pioneers of early urban Huddersfield By David Griffiths 19, Winter 2007-2008
Updated July 2011.