Welcome to Huddersfield Exposed!

Welcome to Huddersfield Exposed, a collection of articles and pages about the history of Huddersfield and the surrounding area.

The pages reflect the research interests of those who contribute to the site and are not meant to be an exhaustive history of the Huddersfield area... at least, not yet!

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We've just launched an online shop where you can download high-resolution scans of historic items such as maps and photographs at reasonable prices. All income will be used to secure more content that can be added to the site.

What's New?

A copy of The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1910) by F.W Moorman has been added to the site.
To celebrate Meltham's first beer festival, "Stiff Shackles and Loose Pulleys: The Beerhouses and Inns of Meltham" is available to download for free.
Help support two local charities by ungluing a copy of the County Borough of Huddersfield Directory (1956)!
To mark Remembrance Sunday 2017, a copy of The Great War 1914-18: Meltham and District has been added to the site.
A backup of West Yorkshire Archive Service's Off the Record wiki is now available.
A copy of Extracts from the Diary of the Rev. Robert Meeke (1874) by Henry James Morehouse & Charles Augustus Hulbert has been transcribed.
Local entries from The West Riding of Yorkshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Biographies (1902) edited by W.T. Pike have been transcribed.
Available to download for free — A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District (1928).
A new digitisation of H.J. Morehouse's The History and Topography of the Parish of Kirkburton and of the Graveship of Holme (1861) has been made for this site.
A copy of Armchair Cricket: A Summary of Huddersfield (1937) has been added to the site.
Mary A. Jagger's The History of Honley (1914) is now available to read online.
Slaithwaite Notes: Past and Present (1905) by John Sugden has been transcribed for the site.
The text of The Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Meltham: Ter-Centenary 1651-1951 has been added to the site.
The Huddersfield: The Official Handbook (1930) has been digitised for this site!
The first Tolson Museum Handbook has been scanned for the site: History of Ravensknowle & Scheme for the Development of a Local Museum (1921) by Legh Tolson and T.W. Woodhead
To celebrate the 365th anniversary of St. Bartholomew, Meltham and 125th of the Carlile Institute, and the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new digitisation of the Rev. Hughes' The History of the Township of Meltham (1866) is available to download for free.

... or see the What's New? page for more recent additions to the site.

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Find out more about buildings, places and people
Look at historic newspaper articles, journal articles and maps
Browse some local books, genealogical resources, Local Acts or just view a random page!
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Aims of the Site

The Huddersfield area is rich with history and the intention is for this site to explore some of the more obscure or unusual stories.
To make available original content under a licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
To make available out-of-copyright research materials, such as newspaper articles, books and Local Acts, and place those versions in the Public Domain.

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The site is maintained by Dave Pattern. He also helped develop the Buildings of Huddersfield site.

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