Issue 29 of Huddersfield Local History Society’s Journal is now available.
Current members of the Society receive a free complimentary copy of the journal. However, if we can’t tempt you to join today, you can order a copy of this issue of the journal. There is also a downloadable PDF version which has the exact same formatting as the print edition but incurs no extra postage costs.
Contents
EDITORIAL
- History Written by the People and for the People (Frank Grombir)
NEWS AND EVENTS
- The Society’s Programme of Events 2018-2019
- The Society’s Publications
- Edward Law History Prize
- The Society’s Web Site — Huddersfield 150 Page
- Kirklees Heritage Forum
- Our Heritage Partnerships
- Disappearing Curiosities
ARTICLES
- Death on the Home Front (Pam Brooke)
- Homes Fit for Heroes: Victory Avenue (Christine Verguson)
- Under Castle Hill: Finding Home from Home in Huddersfield (Phil Wood)
- Marsden Manor: The Metropolitan Connection (Peter Whitehead)
- Chief Constable Ward’s “Pleasant Trip” to Spain: A Tale of Embezzlement, Extradition and the Enforcement of the Law in Victorian England (David Taylor)
- Dispersal Bussing in Huddersfield during the 1960s and 1970s: Solving “the Problem” of Immigrant Children (Joe Hopkinson)
- George Faulkner Armitage: An[Other] Arts and Crafts Designer in Huddersfield (David Griffiths)
- Two Huddersfield Politicians and their Connections with the Wessenden Valley, Marsden (Christine Piper)
- Our Local “Order of Chivalry”: Huddersifeld’s Jubilee Freemen in 1918 (Anne Brook)
- Huddersfield’s Legal and Political Pioneer: Mary E. Sykes (1896-1981) (Katie Broomfield)
BOOK REVIEWS
- Alan Brooke, Keith Brockhill and Mark Butterfield
OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
- John (J C) Brook
- Walter Clive Cranston
- Karl Steel
- Roger Atkin
- Mark Hardcastle
- Betty Eagles
Journal cover photos:
- © Andy Hemingway (Castle Hill at Sunset, Buckstones and Pule Hill)
- © Dave Pattern (Cloth Hall Tower and Ravensknowle Park with Tolson Museum)
- © Kirklees Image Archive (Lockwood Viaduct and Huddersfield c. 1960)