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13 Nov 2024
As an early Twitter user (my personal account) it pains me, but X is a car crash these days thanks to its ketamine addled owner. I've moved on over to the other side now -- hope to see some of you there :-)
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1 Dec 2024
Winter 1947, A snowbound bus on Castle Hill in Huddersfield. This was one of three single deck buses stranded for several weeks on this road that winter. Image and information courtesy of Arthur Shaw.
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12 Nov 2024
Today marks the 110th anniversary of the opening of #Holmfirth Auxiliary Cottage hospital on Woodhead Road, Bottoms
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31 Oct 2024
To mark Huddersfield Local History Society's republication of suffragist Florence Lockwood's autobiography, they are dedicating their annual History Day (Sat 9 Nov) to speakers who will share the stories of some of the district's other pioneering women. orlo.uk/mDzPo
ALT Book Cover of "An Ordinary Life" by Florence Lockwood
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28 Oct 2024
I'm currently down the rabbit hole of why a Welsh school master named Arthur Cecil Birch somehow ended up writing and directing around 130 films in Holmfirth between around 1912 and 1916. After wrapping filming on "Paula" in Jan 1916, he enlisted in the Army a few weeks later.
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28 Oct 2024
This from the Examiner interview with Fred Beaumont in 1926:
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28 Oct 2024
Both films may possibly date from late March 1898 when "heavy snow showers prevailed" in much of West Yorkshire.
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20 Oct 2024
Something else I recently posted on FB was about @bryanadams' links to the local area, which are on his mother Elizabeth's side. Her father was John William Watson, born Meltham 1873, son of the Rev. Edward Collis Watson who was the curate at Meltham Mills & then vicar of Honley.
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20 Oct 2024
After Charles' death, Winifred moved with her mother to Albury, Surrey (1921 Census) and it was there that she married John William on 4 Dec 1924. Quite possibly she knew John from when his father was the vicar of Honley and they had stayed in touch over the years?
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20 Oct 2024
Charles Ingram Armitage was also a noted cricketer and the family is mention in Mrs Jagger's "History of Honley" book. He lived at High Royd House, Honley.
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