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- 09:33, 13 April 2024 George Boothroyd Hallas (1871-1930) (hist | edit) [3,420 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '=== Biography === George Boothroyd Hallas was born on 1 April 1871 in Holmfirth, the son of Elliott Hallas and his wife Ellen (née Boothroyd)...')
- 08:28, 12 April 2024 Shaw and Hallas, Limited (hist | edit) [2,152 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Shaw & Hallas Ltd. was a notable local shoe retailer established towards the end of 1914. It ceased trading in 2021. === History === Huddersfield-born shoemaker John Shaw ope...')
- 22:54, 11 April 2024 RN Fairey Barracuda MD963 (hist | edit) [573 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Fairey Barracuda MD963 of the Royal Navy crashed on Close Moss, Marsden, on 29 July 1945 killing the pilot, Sub Lt. George Henry Ambler. === Gallery === <hudgallery> geograph...')
- 22:32, 11 April 2024 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (25/Feb/1958) - Meltham Plane Crash Mystery Solved (hist | edit) [5,852 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{newspaperT}} '''MELTHAM PLANE CRASH MYSTERY SOLVED''' '''Councillor Tells Of Stretcher Parties' Grim Ordeal''' The USAAF B-17G-65 Flying Fortress 43-37667|Flying Fortre...')
- 16:11, 11 April 2024 Tannery, Southgate, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [549 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: Southgate (between Rosemary Lane & Denton Lane junctions), Huddersfield * status: no longer exists Tannary of Elliott Hallas & Sons...') originally created as 'Tannary, Southgate, Huddersfield'
- 16:34, 6 April 2024 Galloway's Commercial College (hist | edit) [970 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'thumb|right|1947 newspaper advertisement Galloway's Commercial College was founded circa 1882...')
- 11:02, 6 April 2024 Holmfirth's Solemn Voice (1852) by Rev. Moses Margoliouth (hist | edit) [35,079 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project PD}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Holmfirth's Solemn Voice'' (1852) by Rev. Moses Margoliouth}} Category: Books about the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 Categ...')
- 20:59, 2 April 2024 Market Place, Meltham (hist | edit) [423 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: Towngate, Meltham * status: still exists * category: market place === Gallery === <hudgallery> omeka tag Market Place (Meltham) </hud...')
- 12:44, 31 March 2024 Holmfirth Flood of 1852 - The Unknown Children (hist | edit) [8,254 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project}} In the hours and days after the Holmfirth Flood of 1852, the bodies of the victims were recovered and taken to the nearest inns where they cou...')
- 13:09, 30 March 2024 Leeds Intelligencer (06/Mar/1852) - The Holmfirth Calamity (hist | edit) [5,778 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project PD}} {{newspaperT}} '''THE HOLMFIRTH CALAMITY.''' Since our last, three more of the drowned victims have been discovered, viz., Richard Shacklet...')
- 17:47, 29 March 2024 Leeds Mercury (21/Feb/1852) - Holmfirth: The Late Catastrophe (hist | edit) [32,807 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project PD}} n.b. the following article contains a number of errors by the reporter (see notes) ---- {{newspaperT}} '''HOLMFIRTH.''' '''THE LATE CATASTR...')
- 12:40, 27 March 2024 Smithy Place Bridge, Honley (hist | edit) [173 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: Smithy Place, Honley * category: bridge == Location == <map>53.596492,-1.774681</map> Category: Bridges Category: Places')
- 11:31, 27 March 2024 Halifax Guardian (14/Feb/1852) - The Dreadful Accident at Holmfirth (hist | edit) [127,174 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project PD}} {{newspaperT}} '''THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT HOLMFIRTH.''' '''FURTHER PARTICULARS.''' '''DISCOVERY OF MORE BODIES.''' '''INQUESTS OVER & BURI...')
- 10:56, 27 March 2024 Halifax Guardian (14/Feb/1852) - The Holmfirth Catastrophe (hist | edit) [2,202 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project PD}} {{newspaperT}} '''THE HOLMFIRTH CATASTROPHE.''' : Now o'er the downward slope, the torrent pours : With thund'ring crash, and desolating rush...')
- 10:47, 27 March 2024 Halifax Guardian (14/Feb/1852) - The Holmfirth Flood: Meeting at Halifax (hist | edit) [1,929 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project PD}} {{newspaperT}} '''PUBLIC NOTICES''' '''HOLMFIRTH FLOOD.''' In compliance with a very generally expressed opinion that a united effort should...') originally created as 'Halifax Guardian (14/Feb/1852) - Public Notices'
- 18:01, 26 March 2024 Frank Pogson (1893-1957) (hist | edit) [2,018 bytes] David Lewis Pogson (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'new page frank pogson')
- 15:52, 26 March 2024 Thomas Roper (c.1811-1888) (hist | edit) [880 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project}} === Biography === Thomas Roper was born in Halifax. He married Hannah Taylor, daughter of Francis and Hannah Taylor, on 14 August 1836 at {{All H...')
- 11:02, 26 March 2024 John Exley (1813-1860?) (hist | edit) [843 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project}} === Biography === John Exley was born on 13 December 1813, the son of David Exley and his wife Sarah (née Cuttell). He married Phillis Mosley in...') originally created as 'John Exley (1813-?)'
- 11:01, 19 March 2024 Hanson Terrace, Canal Street, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [544 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: Canal Street, Huddersfield * status: still exists * category: terraced row === Location === <gsv><iframe src="https://www.google.com/...')
- 17:02, 11 March 2024 Pictures and the Picturegoer (15/Jan/1916) - A New Screen Star (hist | edit) [2,663 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{journalT}} '''A New Screen Star.''' <omeka>4638</omeka> The Holmfirth Producing Company are fortunate in having discovered a leading lady with such personality and charm...')
- 18:06, 10 March 2024 Weary Willie (1898) (hist | edit) [1,288 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Bamforth film productions}} thumb|right === Details === * length: about <convert>86 feet</convert><ref>According to the BFI.</ref> * relea...')
- 01:44, 10 March 2024 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (06/Jan/1926) - Holmfirth: First Film Town (hist | edit) [7,608 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{newspaperT}} '''HOLMFIRTH — FIRST FILM TOWN.''' '''A Pioneer Firm.''' '''HUDDERSFIELD MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SECOND LOS ANGELES.''' "But for the War Holmfirth would have be...')
- 09:51, 8 March 2024 Dalton Hotel, Rawthorpe Lane, Dalton (hist | edit) [1,073 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{mapstub}} === Details === * also known as: The Dalton * location: Rawthorpe Lane (junction with Holays), Dalton * status: still exists * category: public house, beerhouse,...')
- 15:04, 5 March 2024 Fox and Grapes, Albert Street, Lockwood (hist | edit) [1,013 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: 146 Albert Street, Lockwood (1900 Directory) * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc. The premises r...')
- 13:53, 5 March 2024 Golden Cross Inn, Charles Street, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [1,094 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: 15 John Street (corner with Charles Street), Huddersfield (1900 Directory) * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerho...')
- 13:32, 5 March 2024 Three Nuns (beerhouse), Cross Grove Street, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [1,083 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: 2 Cross Grove Street, Huddersfield (1900 Directory) * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc. The Thr...')
- 12:17, 5 March 2024 Musicians Inn, Northgate, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [1,595 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: 3 Northgate, Huddersfield (1900 Directory) * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc. The Musicians In...')
- 12:00, 5 March 2024 Cotton Tree (beerhouse), Northgate, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [761 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * location: 78 Northgate, Huddersfield (1900 Directory) * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc. The Cotton Tree...')
- 11:48, 5 March 2024 Neptune (beerhouse), John Street, Huddersfield (hist | edit) [1,208 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostubunknown}} === Details === * location: 14 John Street, Huddersfield (1900 Directory) * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc. The Ne...') originally created as 'Neptune Inn, John Street, Huddersfield'
- 15:01, 4 March 2024 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (07/Feb/1977) - In and About: All our yesterbeers (hist | edit) [15,340 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{newspaperT}} '''In and About''' '''All our yesterbeers''' '''Ale and hearty recollections...''' And I thought people were interested only in the pubs that still serve al...')
- 10:22, 3 March 2024 Huddersfield Examiner (04/Apr/1914) - Three Old Musicians (hist | edit) [6,521 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{newspaperT}} '''THREE OLD MUSICIANS.''' '''MEN WHO HELPED TO MAKE HOLMFIRTH FAMOUS.''' The above photograph will be of particular interest to Holmfirth readers, depicting...')
- 15:17, 2 March 2024 Greenhead Park Head Gardener's Diary (1925 to 1929) (hist | edit) [563 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{uc}} Category: Books, booklets and pamphlets')
- 13:20, 14 February 2024 Floods of 20 September 1946 (hist | edit) [4,885 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{uc}} Around 20 hours of continuous heavy rainfall between 19 and 20 September 1946 led to flooding across the North of England. === Holme Valley === === Colne Valley ===...')
- 16:34, 8 February 2024 Crowther Street, Lockwood (hist | edit) [1,075 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'A short unnamed road linking Buxton Road (now Lockwood Road) to New Street (now Albert Street) was in existence by the late 1840s, providing access to Broadfield Mills, Lock...')
- 18:01, 4 February 2024 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (27/Mar/1907) - The Detention of Dora Thewlis (hist | edit) [2,278 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{newspaperT}} '''THE DETENTION OF DORA THEWLIS.''' The consideration of Mr. Horace Smith, the London magistrate who suggested to the parents of Miss Dora Thewlis that t...')
- 17:51, 4 February 2024 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (28/Mar/1907) - The Suffragist Disturbance: Miss Dora Thewlis Sent Home (hist | edit) [9,677 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{newspaperT}} '''THE SUFFRAGIST DISTURBANCE.''' '''MISS DORA THEWLIS SENT HOME.''' On Wednesday, Miss Dora Thewlis, of Hawthorne Terrace, Bradford Road, Huddersfield,...')
- 11:25, 3 February 2024 Co-operative Terrace, Wetlands Road, Meltham (hist | edit) [3,632 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} === Details === * also known as: Co-operative Houses * location: Wetlands Road, Meltham * status: still exists * category: properties A terraced row of 26 proper...')
- 11:15, 3 February 2024 Friendship Terrace, Wetlands Road, Meltham (hist | edit) [823 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostub}} thumb|right === Details === * location: Wetlands Road, Meltham * status: still exists * category: properties A terraced row...')
- 18:51, 31 January 2024 Pennine Branch Lines (1993) by Alan Earnshaw (hist | edit) [562 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '''Pennine Branch Lines'' was written and compiled by Alan Earnshaw, and published in 1993 by Ian Allan Publishing. === Details === * RRP £16.99 * 112 pages * hardback * ISBN...')
- 20:16, 29 January 2024 John Kaye (c.1798-1872) (hist | edit) [4,802 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project}} === Biography === John Kaye was born in the township of Cartworth. At the time of the 1851 Census, he was a "grocer and corn dealer's shopman...')
- 19:17, 29 January 2024 Matthew Fearns (c.1826-1864) (hist | edit) [3,532 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Holmfirth Flood Project}} {{uc}} === Biography === ==== Holmfirth Flood of 1852 ==== The following account by Joseph Barrowclough was...')
- 10:11, 22 January 2024 Imperial Inn, Lidget Street, Lindley (hist | edit) [679 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{geostubunknown}} === Details === * location: 72 Lidget Street, Lindley * status: no longer exists * category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc. Likely a beerhouse, it was...')
- 18:04, 9 January 2024 Meet Me at Harold Wilson: Stories from St George's Square (2023) (hist | edit) [1,585 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'thumb|right ''Meet Me at Harold Wilson: Stories from St George's Square'' was compiled by Christine Verguson and Beverley Norris, and published in...')
- 00:19, 21 December 2023 Bolsterstone Male Voice Choir Accident (Holmfirth 1947) (hist | edit) [4,065 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{uc}} The victims were: * Robert Bocking Broadhead (48) of 582 Manchester Road, Stocksbridge<ref>Deputy Clerk to Stocksbridge Urban District Council.</ref> * Clifford Elliso...')
- 13:20, 17 December 2023 Carr Lane Methodist Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (hist | edit) [816 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{uc}} The Carr Lane Methodist Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society was linked to Carr Lane Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Slaithwaite, and was in existence by 1935. Their ea...')
- 23:50, 7 December 2023 The Huddersfield Spitfires (hist | edit) [2,960 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'thumb|right|Huddersfield Examiner (11/Oct/1941) In 1940, the Huddersfield and District Fighter...')
- 23:59, 5 December 2023 Marian Huth (c.1833-1912) née Salomons (hist | edit) [2,950 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '=== Biography === Marian Salomons was born in London, the daughter of Dutch-born Henry Moses Salomons and his wife Priscilla. By 1841, her father was a cotton merchant resid...')
- 12:32, 3 December 2023 Robert Borwell Smailes (1919-1984) (hist | edit) [8,287 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Huddersfield Roll of Honour}} thumb|right === Biography === Robert Borwell Smailes was born in 1919 in Lockwood, the son of...')
- 11:59, 3 December 2023 Frank Holland Crosland (1899-1968) (hist | edit) [3,774 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Huddersfield Roll of Honour}} === Biography === Frank Holland Crosland was born on 4 September 1899 in the Huddersfield area, the son of cigar and coal merchant Frank Bentl...')
- 16:19, 2 December 2023 Gerald Vyvian Williamson (1903-1940) (hist | edit) [5,974 bytes] Dave (talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Huddersfield Roll of Honour}} === Biography === Gerald Vyvian Williamson was born on 13 August 1903 in Leeds, the son of Richard Thompson Williamson. By the early 1930s he...')