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 19th 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