Issue 30 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 our 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 (96 pages)
EDITORIAL
- Editorial (Robert Piggott)
NEWS AND EVENTS
- The Society’s Programme of Events 2019-2020
- The Anniversaries Keep Coming!
- The Society’s Publications
- Edward Law History Prize
- Discover Huddersfield, Explore Kirklees
- Kirklees Heritage Forum
ARTICLES
- Changing Farming Communities around Huddersfield 1841-1910 (Don Jones & Jo Stanley)
- Five Generations of Mitchells Millwrights of the Holme Valley and Beyond (Sheila Grove)
- Station 312 Reporting… (Cheryl & Matthew Toomey)
- The Huddersfield Cockney (Chris Dixon)
- W. H. Sikes: Photographer of Historic Huddersfield (Peter Burton)
- Dedicated to Service: Emily Frances Siddon (1844-1923) (Peter Marshall)
- Notable Co-operator: Thomas Hirst (1792-1833) (John Halstead)
- Piecing Together the Story of Two Brothers (Christine Piper)
- Pity the Victorian Teacher (Ros Whittaker)
- Samuel Sharpe and Peter MacOwan of Huddersfield College (Myra D. Kavanagh)
- Cyprus: A Forgotten War (Les Smith)
BOOK REVIEWS
- Christine Verguson
OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
- Dr. George Redmonds (1935-2018)
- Hilary Haigh (1945-2018)
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)