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 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 Short History of the Baptist Church, Scapegoat Hill (1921) by Nathan Haigh has been added to the site!
Ernest Lockwood's Colne Valley Folk (1936) is available to read online or purchase.
Poems by Emma Battye (1884) has been added to the site.
It's "Sober September", so here's a copy of A Short History of the Huddersfield Temperance Halls' Trust to read.
Story of the Golcar Town School (1926) by John Griffiths is now available to read online.
Two booklets have been added to the site: Honley Parish Church: Centenary (1940) and Almondbury Parish Church Year Book (1913).
You can now find a selection of works by noted Saddleworth poet Ammon Wrigley on the site, along with his 1938 book Songs of the Pennine Hills.
A scan of The History of Honley and its Hamlets from the Earliest Time to the Present (1914) by Mary A. Jagger is available to view online.
A copy of History of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment During the First Three Years of the Great War (1917) by J.J. Fisher has been added to the site.
Copies of The History of Huddersfield and its Vicinity (1898) and The History of Huddersfield and the Valleys of the Colne, the Holme and the Dearne (1906) by D.F.E. Sykes are available to read online.
A copy of The Elland Tragedies (1890) by J. Horsfall Turner has been added to the site.
An index of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society publications has been created.
Both volumes of Frances Anne Collins' The Parish Registers of Kirkburton are now available to read and search online — Volume I covers 1541 to 1654 and Volume II covers 1654-1711. For tips on searching, see our Twitter feed.
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.
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.
Slaithwaite Notes: Past and Present (1905) by John Sugden has been transcribed for the 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

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

Huddersfield 150

The Borough of Huddersfield was formed on 7 July 1868 and and so we're celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary in 2018!

The official web site has now been launched at huddersfield150.org.uk where you can find details of the Huddersfield 150 Exhibition and other events.

Huddersfield Exposed also has a number of resources which might be of interest to those carrying out research.

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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!
Explore the growing map of buildings and locations, or search for a specific location
If you can't find what you're looking for here, there are lots of other web sites with useful information

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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