Issue 32 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 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
- Class Matters (Robert Piggott)
NEWS AND EVENTS
- Partnership Pages
- Discover Huddersfield
- Kirklees Heritage Forum
- Edward Law History Prize
ARTICLES
- The Peaker Sisters (Beverley Norris)
- Lindley’s ‘Coal Master’ – Edward John Wood Waterhouse (Christine Verguson)
- Marsden 1851 – A Year in the Life of the Corn Miller’s Daughter (Steve Challenger)
- “Riders on the Silent Steed”: Cycling’s popularity in early 1890s Huddersfield (Richard Hobson)
- Setting up home in 1933 (Mavis Curtis)
- Two Letters from the West Norfolk Militia in Huddersfield, 1812 (John H. Rumsby)
- The End of the Empire – Stile Common to Karachi, and back again (Don Gardiner)
- Tom Johnson of the Huddersfield Fire Brigade (Chris Smith)
- The Booth Factory Fire 1941 (Richard Heath)
BOOK NOTICES & REVIEWS
- Anne C. Brook, Brian Haigh & Cyril Pearce
OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
- Professor Mike Page (1944-2021)
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)