Huddersfield Lh Journal Index
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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 [Salendine Nook 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 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 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 Crosland Moor Workhouse [Three articles by “Pauperis” from the Colne Valley 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 Batley 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 Honley [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 Newsome in 1930 By Stanley Morris Winter 2005-2006 OXFORD MOVEMENT The Oxford Movement in Huddersfield.