A Souvenir of Honley
An unusual postcard containing contemporary references to Honley, believed to date from the early 1900s.
- The Star of the Day was a beerhouse on Oldfield Road.
- Waffen Fuffen bands (also known as Tommy Talker bands) were a group of local men often playing home-made instruments or banging pots and pans, and wearing fancy dress. "Waffen fuffen" was a local dialect term for "waifs and strays".
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Details
| collection: | Postcards |
| tags: | Digitised Items, Honley, Hope Bank (Honley), Hope Bank Pleasure Resort (Honley), Postcards, Smith Carter (c.1864-1933) |
| creator: | Smith Carter (c.1864-1933) |
| rights: | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
| date added: | 22 April 2017 |