HLHS Members Newsletter October 2020 huddersfieldhistory.org.uk
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[email protected] “The Mayor’s Babies” Garden Party, Gatesgarth, Lindley, July 28th 1906 Welcome to our October 2020 newsletter! On behalf of our fellow committee members we hope that you are all keeping safe and well. In this month’s newsletter, you’ll find Cyril’s annual AGM report, details of upcoming events and recent news, as well as a short article by Brian Haigh about the grand theatre in Huddersfield that never was. David Griffiths and Dave Pattern page 1 HLHS Chair’s Annual Report October 2020 Committee Dear Friends, Chair: Usually at this time of year we are preparing for the Society’s Cyril Pearce Annual General Meeting and I am putting together a few notes Vice-Chair: by way of reflections on the year just past. Sadly, for reasons Brian Haigh with which we are all too familiar, we can’t now meet to Secretary: celebrate 2019-2020 and do all those things we usually do at Dave Pattern our AGM. Earlier in the year we decided that we must cancel all Treasurer: the activities which bring us together, hope for better times in Steve Challenger 2021 and do what we could to keep the Society growing and moving forward. Membership Secretary: This all came at a moment when the 2019-2020 season of talks Val Davies had been going so well and, what turned out to be the final Publications meeting of the year, February’s ‘Your Kirklees Pinta’ given by Secretary: Jo Stanley, had been a most enjoyably lively affair.