id THE HUDDERSFIELD COUNTY BOROUGH DIRECTORY 1937 PRICE 7 /6 NETT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Printed and Published by Alfred Jubb & Son, Ltd., Albany Printing Works, Huddersfield. I\ HUDDERSFIELD DIRECTORY DIRECTORY FOR HOME COMFORT IN HUDDERSFIELD e lffij ~-~------.:.......... - OUR idea of service is to supply the best quality coal at the most economic prices, plus dependable delivery. If this is your idea of service, too, may we suggest you favour us with a trial order? We will gladly deliver direct orders at a day's notice, or our roundsmen will cheerfully call on you each week, if desired, and deliver any quantity from one cwt. upwards. - Price List and literature on application. - off MIDLAND ST. JOHN'S RD. RAI LWAV HUDDERSFIELD DEPOT 'PHONE 1412 "At whose bright presence darkness flies away." V Contents. PAGE Foreword: By The Mayor of Huddersfield (Coun. J. Barlow, J.P.) Introduction vii Arms of the Borough of Huddersfield viii Huddersfield 1836-1936: By Stanley Chadwick ix Huddersfield's Musical Honours: By Ernest Cooper, F.R.C.O., L.R.A.M. xvi The County Borough of Huddersfield (Statistical Information) xviii Huddersfield Books and Authors : By Philip H. Lee xix The Tolson Memorial Museum: By Coun. T. W. Woodhead, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.L.S., Hon. Director xxi A Valuable Asset: By Harold T. Taylor, F.S.I., Rudd. Corporation Estate Manager xxiii Past Mayors xxiv Past Town Clerks xxiv Huddersfield's Sporting Achievements : By Alfred M. Lee XXV Huddersfield Parliamentary Elections xxviii Supplying the Town with Electricity : By J. W. Turner, M.I.E.E., Borough Electrical Engineer XXX Honorary Freemen of the Borough xxxi The Heart of the Cloth Trade ... xxxii Who's Who xxxiii A Tour Round Huddersfield Huddersfield County Borough Council !iii Corporation Committees, lvi ; Offi,;,ers of the Corporation, lvii Court of Quarter Sessions !viii Borough Magistrates !ix County Magistrates for Huddersfield District Ix Magistrates Sitting at Holmfirth, lxi Huddersfield County Court and District Registry of the High Court of Justice lxi Huddersfield Licensing Committee lxi Huddersfield Cemeteries lxi Ecclesiastical Directory lxii Church of England, !xii ; Baptist Churches, !xiii ; Congrega- tional Churches, !xiii; Methodist Churches, !xiii; Presbyterian, ]xiv ; Unitarian, !xiv ; Swedenborgian, !xiv; Roman Catholic, !xiv ; Other Religious Organisations, !xv; Societies, &c., lxv Education Directory !xvi Rudd. Technical College, !xvi ; Secondary and Central Schools, lxvii ; Elementary Schools, lxvii ; School Medical Inspection Dept., lxix ; H. M. Inspectors of Education, lxix; Private Schools, lxix ; Commercial Colleges and Schools, lxix Huddersfield Corporation Fire Brigade lxx Government Departments lxx H.M. Inspector of Factories, lxx ; H.M. District Auditor, lxx ; Ministry of Health, lxx; H.M. Customs and Excise, lxx; H.M. Inspector of Taxes, lxxi ; Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange, lxxi ~i HUDDERSFIELD DIRECTORY PAGE Hospitals and Public Health Services Directory lxxi Rudd. Royal Infirmary, lxxi ; Rudd. and District Victoria Nurses' Association, lxxi; Rudel. Corporation (Public Health Dept.), lxxii Huddersfield Insurance Committee lxxiii Markets and Fairs Department lxxiii Masonic Lodges ... Ixxiv Military Information lxxv Huddersfield Corporation ::\fodel Lodging House Ixxv Parks and Recreation Grounds lxxvi Huddersfield Borough Police ... Ixxvii Local Taxation and Motor Registration Office, lxxvii ; List and Street Plan of Vehicle Parking Places, lxxvii Public Baths Ixxviii Rudd. Royal Infirmary Baths, lxxviii ; Private Baths, lxxviii Public Halls, &c. lxxix Amusement Halls lxxx Public Libraries ... lxxx Royal Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes Ixxxi Huddersfield Railway Station ... lxxxi Huddersfield Corporation Rate Office Ixxxi Weights and Measures Department Ixxxi Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths lxxxii Victoria Memorial Tower, Castle Hill lxxxii Huddersfield and District War Pensions Committee lxxxii Huddersfield Corporation Waterworks Department lxxxii Brass Bands Ixxxiii Clubs-Political ... lxxxiv Clubs-Non-Political Ixxxv Sports and Pastimes Ixxxvi Societies and Associations xcii Charitable, xcii ; Dramatic and Musical, xciv; Floral and Horticultural, xcvii ; Juvenile Organisations, xcvii ; Political, xcvii ; Professional and Trade, xcviii ; Social and General Organisations, ci ; Temperance, civ Trade Unions ClV Road Passenger Transport Facilities ... cvii Tramcars, cvii ; Trolley Vehicles, cvii ; Omnibuses, cviii Huddersfield Postal Arrangements cix Streets Section 1 Private Residents-Alphabetically Arranged 384 Professional and Trades Section-Classified ... 596 Motor Car Index Marks 758 Index to Streets Directory 761 Addendum, 771 Index to Professional and Trades Section 772 Progress with Security: Huddersfield Building Society 772a Plan of Routes: Huddersfield Corporation Transport Department 772c Index to Advertisers 776 Index to Trade Articles ... 776 vii INTRODUCTION O NLY the labours of Hercules and the genie of Aladdin's lamp could produce the perfect Directory, but in the new Huddersfield Directory which the Publishers have pleasure in placing before the public, no effort or expense has been spared to make the work a complete and authoritative guide to the town's many and varied activities. The Streets Section includes all the streets named at the time of printing, together with an addendum of streets which for obvious reasons could not be inserted alphabetically. The Professional and Trades Section contains the names of a large number of manufacturers in the immediate neighbourhood of the town. The General Information Section of the Directory should prove of the greatest assistance to all secretaries of societies, associations, clubs, etc., and is, we believe, the first complete list published in such a handy form. The contributions on the history and industries of the town are not the usual repetition of dates and facts, but original and interesting studies of their respective subjects. The Local "Who's Who" contains a galaxy of names and a record of service to the town of Huddersfield which leads to the realization that we are indeed citizens of no mean city. The Publishers gratefully acknowledge the help which they have received in the compilation of the Directory from many local sources, and also from the Advertisers, who we hope will be rewarded by increased trade. The Publishers express the hope that their many collaborators, together with others, will not hesitate to forward suggestions for increasing the usefulness of the Directory, which may be incorporated in future editions. ALFRED JUBB & SON, LTD. GEORGE C. KERR, Managing Director. STANLEY CHADWICK Editor. Albany Printing Works, T de phone Nos.: St. John's Road, Huddersfield 1230 & 1231. Huddersfield, Telegraphic Address : December, 1936. "Jubb, Huddersfield." viii ARMS OF THE BOROUGH OF HUDDERSFIELD. Or, on a chevron between three rams passant Sable as many towers Argent, Crest, a ram's head couped Argent, armed Or, gorged with a collar Sable holding in the mouth a sprig of the cotton tree, slipped and fructed Proper. Motto, '_' Juvat impigros deus" (Arms as granted, October, 1868, by the Authorities of the Heralds' College to be borne and used for ever hereafter on Seals, Shields, Banners, or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms). The Rams are an allusion to the Ramsden Family, former ground Landlords. The Towers are the usual symbols of strength and security. The Crest of the Ram's Head holding the Cotton Plant, symbolical of one of the principal industries flourishing in the town. Motto, "God helps those who help themselves." ix HUDDERSFIELD 1R36-1936. A Century of Progress. By Stanley Chadwick. UDDERSFIELD heralded the year 1836 with a forecast of many H improvements to the town. "Dangerous Corner," the name given to the obstacle at the main entrance from Leeds Road into the town, was to be immediately widened, and the demolition of several other old buildings was planned. Early in the year the hopes that had been entertained of placing the town in direct rail communication with Leeds suffered a severe blow by the decision of the shareholders of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway Company to relinquish thE projer-t, in consequence of the feared opposition in Parliament from rival railway companies. To compfmsate for this loss the proprietorn of the HuddNsfield and Manchester Accommodation Coach provided an accelerated serviee. The Accommodation was scheduled to leave the Pack Horse General Coach Office each morning at six-thirty o'clock, and ~o reach 2\Ianchcster by nine-thirty o'clock in the evening. Accidents, however, wcro frequent, aml the discomfort, of travel by stage-coach were not diminished by the prospect of an involuntary immersion in some stream or the arrival at the journey's end with a broken limb. An Unhonoured Reformer. The Reform Act of 1832 conferred upon Huddersfield the dignity of eleeting one represontative to the new House of Commons. By the year 1836 the town had already experienced three elections, a by-election having been necessarv bv the untimely death of the first member. The second M.P. for Huddcrsfi~lcl 'was John Blackburne, the nominee of the lord of the manor. Blackburne has received scant recognition from historians, but it was largely duo to his labours as chairman of the Royal Commission on Munieipal Administration that tho present system of Local Government was established, Although tho population of the town at the time of Blackburne's election was about 19,000, the number of persons entitled to