Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1903
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Monday, 5th January 1903:
Sowerby Bridge Liberal Club decides to buy the
Sowerby Bridge Town Hall for their new club premises at a cost of
£2,600
- Monday, 5th January 1903:
Appeal by Halifax Cricket and Football Club for
subscriptions to reduce the mortgage debt of £8,000
- Sunday, 1st February 1903:
Visit of Lloyd George MP to Halifax
- Tuesday, 17th February 1903:
Memorial tablet to non-commissioned officers and men
of the 3rd Battalion West Riding Regiment, who lost their lives in
the South African War, unveiled in the Halifax Parish Church
- Saturday, 7th March 1903:
Opening of St James's United Methodist Free Church,
Luddenden, estimated cost £2,000
- Saturday, 14th March 1903:
Consecration by the Bishop of Wakefield of All Saints'
new churchyard, Salterhebble
- Saturday, 14th March 1903:
Centenary celebration of Square Sunday School, Halifax
- Saturday, 4th April 1903:
Celebration of the centenary of Dean Clough Mills
- Saturday, 11th April 1903:
Centenary celebration at the Baptist Chapel, Rishworth
- Monday, 20th April 1903:
Fire at Siddall and Hilton Limited, bedstead
manufacturers, Asquith Bottom, Sowerby Bridge, damage estimated at
£5,000
- Saturday, 25th April 1903:
Christ Church, Mount Pellon, reopened after extensive
enlargement
- Sunday, 10th May 1903:
Formal opening of the Roman Catholic Church at West Vale
- Saturday, 16th May 1903:
Celebration of the centenary of Bolton Brow Wesleyan
Sunday School, Sowerby Bridge
- Thursday, 21st May 1903:
Opening of the tramways extension in Sowerby Bridge from
Wharf Street to Jerry Lane
- Monday, 8th June 1903:
Gift of £2,000 by Andrew Carnegie for a free
library at Hebden Bridge
- Wednesday, 10th June 1903:
Brighouse Town Council decides to borrow £40,000 to
establish a public market, construct new sewers and carry out street
improvements
- Saturday, 27th June 1903:
Stone laying ceremony in connection with the Sugden
Memorial Hall at the Bridge End Congregational Church,
Brighouse
- Monday, 29th June 1903:
Opening of tram extension to Hove Edge
- Monday, 13th July 1903:
Fire at Cooper House Mills, Luddendenfoot
- Wednesday, 15th July 1903:
Portrait of John Whitley JP unveiled in Square
Sunday School
- Thursday, 16th July 1903:
Decision to wind up the Sowerby Bridge Choral Society
- Thursday, 30th July 1903:
Opening of the new Palace Theatre, Halifax
- Friday, 31st July 1903:
New Conservative Club opened in Pellon Ward by
Sir Alfred Arnold
- Monday, 17th August 1903:
Opening of the Battinson Road School built by the
Halifax School Board at a cost of £29,500
- Friday, 28th August 1903:
Mr Willie Brooke of Hill Top, Lightcliffe, a director
of Messrs Brookes Limited killed on the railway at
Lightcliffe
- Sunday, 4th October 1903:
William Aspinall, an overlooker of Clough
Lane, Mixenden, arrested on charge of causing the death of his next
door neighbour, Calvert Moore, a grocer
- Saturday, 10th October 1903:
Sowerby Bridge District Council fined £40 for
continued pollution of the river
- Friday, 16th October 1903:
William Aspinall committed for trial
- Thursday, 22nd October 1903:
Railway disaster in Sowerby Bridge tunnel.
- Saturday, 31st October 1903:
Jubilee celebrations of Holywell Green Mechanics'
Institute
- Wednesday, 4th November 1903:
The new church of All Saints', Elland, dedicated
- Monday, 16th November 1903:
Final meeting of the Halifax School Board
- Saturday, 28th November 1903:
Opening of new Liberal Club at Elland.
Total cost of scheme £2,900
- Thursday, 10th December 1903:
Mr Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
attended a Unionist demonstration in the Victoria Hall, Halifax
- Monday, 21st December 1903:
Mr Winston Churchill MP and Mr E. W. Beckett MP
addressed Free Trade Demonstration at Halifax
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Many Mills had their own Fire Brigade, like this one from Victoria
Mills, Bailiffe Bridge
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Halifax win league and cup – Star half-back and captain, James Rigg
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The new Palace Theatre which was officially opened July 30, 1903
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Lower Briggate, Brighouse in 1903.
Today it is almost unrecognisable with only the shops on the left
remaining
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Lloyd George MP visited in February
These Pages are intended to provide an on-line index to the
Millennium Souvenir
Further details, full stories and photographs can be seen in the
original Millennium Souvenir
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