Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1905
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Saturday, 21st January 1905:
Sudden death of Edward Crossley of
Bermerside, Halifax, aged 63, Chairman of John Crossley &
Sons Limited, and former MP for the Sowerby Division
- Saturday, 21st January 1905:
Fire at Old Lane Dyeworks, Halifax. Damages
estimated at £8,000
- Saturday, 25th February 1905:
Jubilee celebrations of North Parade Baptist Chapel,
Halifax
- Saturday, 18th March 1905:
Jubilee celebrations of the Queensbury Industrial
Society
- Thursday, 23rd March 1905:
Opening of the new Todmorden Waterworks at Gorpley
- Saturday, 15th April 1905:
Opening of a new pavilion at the Rastrick Cricket
Ground by Sir Thomas Brooke-Hitching
- Friday, 19th May 1905:
Sir Savile Crossley MP severely breaks his leg while
playing polo at Wembley Park
- Thursday, 25th May 1905:
Members of Halifax Cricket and Football Club reject a
proposal to sell land on the Thrum Hall estate
- Wednesday, 31st May 1905:
The Rev Canon Savage dedicates a new chancel at St
Matthew's Mission Church, Northowram
- Wednesday, 7th June 1905:
Halifax Town Council refer back for further consideration
the allegations against the smallpox hospital
- Tuesday, 13th June 1905:
King Cross Wesleyan New Sunday Schools opened at a cost
of £6,000 and are considered among the very finest buildings of
their kind in Yorkshire
- Friday, 23rd June 1905:
Passive Resisters' Demonstration in Halifax. Speech by
the Rev A. T. Guttery
- Wednesday, 19th July 1905:
Marriage of Miss Edith Beatrice Armytage, only daughter
of Sir George J. Armytage and Lady Armytage of Kirklees Hall to
Mr Marjoribanks Keppel North of Rougham Hall, Norfolk
- Wednesday, 19th July 1905:
Fire at J. W. Wheelwright & Sons Limited, cotton
spinners, Rishworth. Damage £3,500
- Thursday, 20th July 1905:
Grove Mills, Ovenden, destroyed by fire. Damage
estimated between £7,000 and £8,000
- Thursday, 27th July 1905:
Fire at Victoria Mills, Brighouse. Damage estimated at
£20,000
- Wednesday, 2nd August 1905:
Halifax Town Council agreed halfpenny tram fares for
children as an experiment
- Friday, 4th August 1905:
Trimmingham Mansion bought by the Halifax Corporation
- Friday, 4th August 1905:
Opening of the new Theatre Royal, Halifax
- Saturday, 2nd September 1905:
Shareholders of Sowerby Bridge Flour Society
decided to offer the mills and business to the Co-operative Wholesale
Society at 25s per share
- Wednesday, 13th September 1905:
Halifax Town Council resolves to sell the tar
works for £6,000
- Sunday, 1st October 1905:
Inauguration of halfpenny fares for children on the
Halifax tramways
- Saturday, 14th October 1905:
Opening by Councillor Frank Clay of the new public
library at Sowerby Bridge, the gift of Mr Andrew Carnegie
- Saturday, 28th October 1905:
Removal of the graveyard at Ebenezer Chapel,
Halifax, to make way for street improvements
- Saturday, 11th November 1905:
Diamond jubilee celebrations of Lee Mount Baptist
Chapel
- Thursday, 16th November 1905:
Marriage of John Harris and Miss Lilian Bertha
Williams the new master and matron of the Halifax Workhouse
- Saturday, 2nd December 1905:
Return to England of the 2nd Battalion West Riding
Regiment after nearly 20 years of foreign service
- Tuesday, 12th December 1905:
Inauguration of the Halifax Citizens' Guild of Help
- Saturday, 16th December 1905:
Opening of the Halifax Friendly and Trades Club
(formerly the Oddfellows' Hall)
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Death of Mr Edward Crossley, grandson of Dean Clough
founder – picture of Edward Crossley
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General William Booth on a motorised campaign tour with his eldest
grandchild, Lieut Colonel Catherine Booth
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Massive Mill Fire – A workroom at Victoria Mills shortly before blaze
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The first tram from Halifax to West Vale on August 2nd, 1905, arrives
at West Vale opposite the Shears Inn
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Woolshops, Halifax, was a popular meeting place and shopping street
in the early years of the century – a role that has been restored
with the more recent Woolshops precinct
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Golden Jubilee – Queensbury Industrial Society's central stores
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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