What's New?
Please note that this page is no longer being regularly updated. To view all the changes to the site, see the Recent Changes index.
This page lists the recent additions to Huddersfield Exposed...
November 2017
- Added a scan of The Great War 1914-18: Meltham and District (1920).
July 2017
- Added local entries from The West Riding of Yorkshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Biographies (1902) edited by W.T. Pike
June 2017
- 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 New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District (1928) by Walter E. Haigh is now available to download for free
May 2017
- Added the text of Owen Balmforth's Educational Funds: Their Necessity and Importance (1901)
March 2017
- Began building pages for the various turnpike roads in the area, e.g. Huddersfield and Penistone Turnpike, Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike & Meltham and Wessenden Head Turnpike
- added the route of the Huddersfield and New Hey Turnpike Road
- added the route of the Huddersfield and Woodhead Turnpike Road
- added the route of the Wakefield and Austerlands Turnpike Road, including the three routes taken by the turnpike between Huddersfield and Austerlands (1759, 1777 & 1820)
- added Birstall and Huddersfield Turnpike Road
January 2017
- Set up an Omeka installation to archive images and multimedia: https://huddersfield.exposed/archive/
October 2016
- added text of The Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Meltham: Ter-Centenary 1651-1951 (1951)
- transcribed West Yorkshire Alehouse Licences (P33/5/2) which contains details of inns, licensed public houses, and beerhouses circa 1880
- started project to summarise the annual Brewster Sessions
- transcriptions of the Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory of 1828-9 & Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory of 1834 added
- transcription of Slaithwaite Notes: Past and Present (1905) by John Sugden added
- transcription of The History of Honley and its Hamlets from the Earliest Time to the Present (1914) by Mary A. Jagger added
- transcription of the Huddersfield section of Pigot's Commercial Directory for 1818-20 added
September 2016
- 1st — added a new digitisation of the Rev. Hughes' The History of the Township of Meltham (1866) done for this site to celebrate the 150th year of its original publication!
- 1st — added a 1900 article about James Bamforth of Holmfirth and his famous studio
- 2nd — added details for photographer Bland Wolfenden (1859-1922)
- 13th — added 1892 boundaries for Holme and the wards of Huddersfield Central, Huddersfield North, Huddersfield South, Huddersfield East, Huddersfield West and Longwood
- 15th — added summaries of the Meltham Feast
- 17th — added a scan of History of Ravensknowle & Scheme for the Development of a Local Museum (1921) by Legh Tolson and T.W. Woodhead
- 22nd — added a scan of Huddersfield: The Official Handbook (1930)
August 2016
- 13th — scans and a PDF of Huddersfield Holidays at Home: Souvenir Handbook (1943) added
- 14th — 1892 Urban District boundaries added for Lingards, Slaithwaite and Farnley Tyas
- 14th — added locations and details for pubs etc in Berry Brow and South Crosland areas
- 22nd — added biographical details for several local photographers
- 24nd — created a new section for stereoscopic images of Huddersfield
- 30th — created a page for one of Huddersfield's forgotten parks, the tiny Peel Park
July 2016
- 7th — added details for the Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike, the Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike Trust and the ill-fated Dungeon Wood Toll House, Lockwood
- 12th — 1892 Urban District boundaries added for Austonley, Honley, Linthwiate, Meltham, Netherthong, and South Crosland
- 16th — transcribed the Social Services in Huddersfield (1951) booklet and scanned the adverts
- 17th — added details for booksellers Coates and Bairstow of Station Street, Huddersfield, and for founding partner Edwin Walter Coates (1863-1940)
- 19th — finished adding local mill-owner's responses to the Royal Commission on Employment of Children in Factories of 1833
- 20th — added biographical notes for German-born photographer Henry Krüger (c.1851-1942) who moved with his children to America in 1914 (presumably to avoid being interned as an undesirable alien when war broke out)
- 21st — added "The History of the Borough of Huddersfield" from Yorkshire, Past and Present: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York - volume 2, part 2 (1875) by Thomas Baines
- 23rd — added more books added to the Yorkshire Public Domain Books Collection: Spen Valley, Past and Present (1893) by Frank Peel, Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (1823-1834), Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (1835-1849), Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (1850-1859), The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial and Miscellaneous History of the Manufacturing District of Yorkshire: Volume 1 (1834) by Edward Parsons, The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial and Miscellaneous History of the Manufacturing District of Yorkshire: Volume 2 (1834) by Edward Parsons, Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times: Volume 1 (1885) by D.H. Atkinson, Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times: Volume 2 (1887) by D.H. Atkinson, The Geology of the Country around Holmfirth and Glossop (1933), The Geology of the Country around Huddersfield and Halifax (1930), and many more!
- 30th — added the text of History of the Library Movement in Huddersfield (1945)
June 2016
- 25th — Added details for local photography company John Edward Shaw and Son, established by John Edward Shaw (c.1849-1916) and his son Charles Raven Shaw (1873-1917).
- 30th — Added details for local photographers William Colton Pearson (1842-1927) and Samuel Stansfield Priestley (1826-1894).
Older Featured Items from the Home Page
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- Read a 1900 article about James Bamforth of Holmfirth and his famous studio.
- Scans of Huddersfield Holidays at Home: Souvenir Handbook (1943) have been added to the site.
- Added "The History of the Borough of Huddersfield" from Yorkshire, Past and Present (1875).
- Did you know Lockwood was once a fashionable spa resort?
- Picturesque Views of Huddersfield (c.1900), a collection of 20 photographs likely taken in the 1890s, has been made freely available.
- The 1928 centenary booklet St. Paul's, Huddersfield: The Days That Are Past, 1828-1928 is available to read and download.
- An exclusive for this site — the full text of Holy Trinity, Huddersfield: Three Lectures on the History of the Church and Parish, 1819-1904 (1913) by Rev. A.S. Weatherhead, which details the early history of Holy Trinity Church, Greenhead.
- Browse the Huddersfield College Calendar for winter 1939/40.
- The 1852 publication The Flood Came and Took Them All Away: A Sermon on the Holmfirth Flood by the Rev. Joshua Fawcett has been transcribed for the site, which includes contemporary details of the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 along with the subsequent inquest.
- A second publication on the Holmfirth Flood has been transcribed — Sorrow on the Land: An Account of the Inundation Occasioned by the Bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir (1852)