Aspects of Huddersfield: Discovering Local History (1999) edited by Isobel Schofield

Aspects of Huddersfield: Discovering Local History (1999) was edited by Isobel Schofield and published in 1999 by Wharncliffe Publishing Limited.

Synopsis

Aspects of Huddersfield, the first in the highly successful Aspects series to feature Huddersfield and district, contains a wealth of pinpoint detail of the history of the town. The story of the coming of the "wireless" to Moorside Edge, which made Huddersfield the radio centre for Northern England, sits alongside the proceedings of the Manorial Court at the Manor of Honley in the 18th and 19th centuries. A fascinating collection of the Legends of the Colne Valley, sits easily with Early Days in the Mill and the Diary of an Unknown. A tale of courtship in the mid 1920s. While the Chartists went "The Whole Hog" in Huddersfield, Mrs Sunderland became the "Yorkshire Queen of Song", a feat still recognised in an annual music festival in her name. Aspects of Huddersfield cannot but enthrall both the dedicated researcher and the general reader with an interest in the town and its environs.

Details

• 176 pages
• RRP £9.95
• ISBN 9781871647662

Contents

• Introduction — Isobel Schofield
• Chapter 1: Coins, Tokens and Medals of the Huddersfield and District — John Rumsby
• Chapter 2: The Manor of Honley at Work 1784-1881 — Jackie Richardson
• Chapter 3: The Whole Hog: Huddersfield Chartism 1838-1855 — Alan Brooke
• Chapter 4: Susan Sunderland: The 'Yorkshire Queen of Song' — John A. Hargreaves
• Chapter 5: Legends of the Colne Valley — John A. Oldham
• Chapter 6: Bruce of Huddersfield — Isobel Schofield
• Chapter 7: Early Days in the Mill — Fred Wood
• Chapter 8: The Diary of an Unknown — Alan Whitworth
• Chapter 9: Huddersfield and The 'Wireless' — John White
• Contributors
• Index