HUDDERSFIELD LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL An index of articles from Issue 1 Autumn 1990 to date, and from itsʼ predecessor The Newsletter from 1983-1990.

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

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 beggarʼs 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 masonʼs yard: Berry Brow 16, Winter 2004-2005

BICKERSTETHʼS VISITATION Bishop Bickerstethʼs 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 [ man who became a ʻfounding fatherʼ 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 minerʼs 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

CHILDRENʼS GAMES Games we played By Clifford Stephenson 3, Autumn 1991

CHORAL MUSIC 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 Lunnʼs personal recollections of Slaithwaiteʼs history] 16, Winter 2004-2005

COMMISSIONERS FOR LIGHTING, WATCHING AND CLEANSING [Two members of Huddersfieldʼs 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 TʼCo-op. [Ernest Beaumontʼs 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 TʼCo-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 Workhouse [Three articles by “Pauperis” from the Guardian, October 1900] 10, Winter 1999/2000

DEANHOUSE WORKHOUSE ʻIt was a cosy day in the workhouse” [A Holmfirth Express reporterʼs rose-tinted visit in August 1914] 11, Winter 2000/2001

DIALECT Dialect in a druggistʼs 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 Ellisʼs 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 18, Winter 2006-2007 EYRE, ADAM In the steps of Adam Eyre. Report of Society Excursion in Newsletter 2, 1988

FARMING WITH HORSES Whoʼad a thowt thed a been a farm baht osses. By Ernest Beaumont 13, Winter 2002/2003

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 familyʼs corned beef dinner, in 1914] 9, Winter 1998/99

GRASSY CLIFF HOSPITAL By Allan Place 21, Winter 2009-2010

HARTLEY, WALLACE Tragic hero [Review of a biography of the Titanicʼs 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 Brownʼs] 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 fatherʼs 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 [George Hirstʼs 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 Houdiniʼs 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 itsʼ 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 Brierlyʼs 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 periodicalʼs 21st anniversary] 16, Winter 2004-2005

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 minerʼs 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 1860ʼs] 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

MARSDENʼS 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 minerʼs 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 fatherʼs 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 in 1930 By Stanley Morris Winter 2005-2006

OXFORD MOVEMENT The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield. By M Tomlinson 12, Winter 2001/2002

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

PONTEY, WILLIAM William Pontey: Huddersfieldʼs 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: Huddersfieldʼs 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 Menʼs Club 1894-1944 [From Fred Sykesʼ pamphlet of 1944] 15, Winter 2003/2004

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

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 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 Skelmanthorpeʼs small textile museum] 19, Winter 2007-2008

ST. THOMASʼS 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 Hellawellʼs 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 Skelmanthorpeʼs 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

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 platelayerʼs 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 masonʼs yard - Berry Brow 16, Winter 2004-2005

STREET ENTERTAINER Interesting presentation. [Report of a 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 bandsman, originally published as a pamphlet in 1904] [20] Winter 2008-2009

SWIFT, JOHN (Druggist) Dialect in a Druggistʼs 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 itsʼ 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 itsʼ 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 itsʼ work] 13, Winter 2002/2003 TOBACCONISTS IN HUDDERSFIELD Pestilential smoke By Edward J Law 1, Autumn 1990

TOMMY CASTLEʼS PIE SHOP Savouring the past [John Lawsonʼs 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 Skelmanthorpeʼs “navvies and natives” riot in 1874] 12, Winter 2001/2002

TURNER, EDITH Huddersfield born and bred [Judith Robinson recalls her motherʼs 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

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 Lunnʼs childʼs-eye view of Huddersfield life in the 1940s] 13, Winter 2002/2003

WASHDAY MEMORIES Washday at Grandmaʼs (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 MacFarlaneʼs 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 Menʼs 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

W0ODSOME HALL [Reprint of article from the Newsletter 1990, outlining the history of the Hall and explaining itsʼ special significance to this Society] By K Brockhill 13, Winter 2002/2003

WORKHOUSES A week in Crosland Moor Workhouse [Three articles by ʻPauperis” from the Colne Valley Guardian, October 1910 1, Winter 1999/2000 ʻIt was a cosy day in the Workhouse” [A Holmfirth Express reporterʼs 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