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.