Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1906
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Tuesday, 2nd January 1906:
First issue of the Halifax Daily Guardian
- Friday, 5th January 1906:
Death of Thomas Savile Bowman, aged 24, eldest son of
Mr & Mrs Malcolm Bowman of West Mount, Halifax, following a fracture
and dislocation of the spine through being accidentally caught in a
hoist at Lee Bank Mills on December 15th 1904
- Friday, 12th January 1906:
King's Bounty received by mothers of triplets at
Sowerby Bridge and Illingworth
- Wednesday, 28th February 1906:
Mixenden blacksmith, George Lumb, aged 59,
found hanged in his forge
- Friday, 9th March 1906:
Halifax Liberals celebrate the return of Mr
J. H. Whitley MP to Parliament
- Saturday, 17th March 1906:
Opening of the new Sunday schools of Bethel Methodist
New Connexion Brighouse
- Monday, 2nd April 1906:
Three passive resisters, Rev W. Lawrence of Milton
Place, the Rev John Wilkinson of The Manse, Gibraltar Road, and Mr
Harold Chapman, fish dealer, of the Square, go to jail for the second
time
- Thursday, 12th April 1906:
Fire at Boy Mill, Luddendenfoot (Messrs James Clay &
Company) £10,000 to £15,000 damage
- Tuesday, 17th April 1906:
Serious fires on the Castle Carr and Withins Moors
- Tuesday, 17th April 1906:
Death of Mrs Hannah Furness, Elland's oldest inhabitant,
aged 95 years
- Thursday, 19th April 1906:
Mr Joshua Smith, head of cotton manufacturers Messrs
Joshua Smith Limited, Frostholme Mill, Cornholme, struck by an
engine while walking on the line near Cornholme Station and killed,
aged 73 years
- Saturday, 5th May 1906:
Celebration of the centenary of Sowerby Wesleyan Chapel
- Monday, 28th May 1906:
Visit of Earl Cawdor to the Victoria Hall,
Halifax, to take part in a protest demonstration against the
Education Bill
- Friday, 29th June 1906:
Departure of the Black Dyke Band for a lengthy tour in
Canada and the United States
- Wednesday, 18th July 1906:
Opening of a Tag Lock Bridge connecting Elland Upper
Edge and Southowram
- Friday, 27th July 1906:
Weavers' strike begins at Hebden Bridge
- Saturday, 28th July 1906:
Foundation stones laid of the Booth Town United
Methodists' New Church
- Wednesday, 15th August 1906:
Robert Calvert of Brunswick Street, Halifax,
assistant rate collector to the Halifax Corporation, absconds with
£916
- Saturday, 25th August 1906:
Miss Annie Kenney addresses meetings in Halifax on
Women's Suffrage
- Wednesday, 29th August 1906:
Todmorden Council decides to buy four motor buses
- Friday, 31st August 1906:
Halifax tram strike. No cars running
- Saturday, 1st September 1906:
Halifax tram strike, men's notices expire
- Wednesday, 5th September 1906:
Presentation to Halifax Town Council of a 13,000
signature petition disapproving of the action of the Tramways
Committee
- Saturday, 8th September 1906:
Celebration of 50 years of local government at
Sowerby Bridge
- Tuesday, 25th September 1906:
Mr Thomas Wainwright, Greetland's oldest resident
reaches his 89th birthday
- Monday, 29th October 1906:
Mr L. Bellew, former Sergeant Major of the 33rd
Regimental District, appointed mace bearer of Halifax
- Wednesday, 31st October 1906:
Education extravagance condemned at Halifax Town
Council
- Friday, 2nd November 1906:
New Police Court opened at Brighouse
- Wednesday, 14th November 1906:
Pedlar Thomas Davies (75), well known in Halifax as
"Father Christmas", found dead in an outhouse
- Tuesday, 20th November 1906:
Engine house at cotton spinners Messrs Mitchell
Bros in Pellon Lane wrecked through the bursting of the pinion wheel
- Saturday, 1st December 1906:
Gift to the Bankfield Museum of the Kennedy
Collection valued at 400 guineas
- Friday, 7th December 1906:
Fire at Hipperholme Grammar School
- Saturday, 22nd December 1906:
Memorial tablet to the Halifax men who lost their
lives in the South African War unveiled in Halifax Parish Church by
Alderman J. Whitaker
- Friday, 28th December 1906:
Premises of Messrs W. L. Carter & Company, the
Dredger Soap Works in Upper George Yard, Halifax, gutted by fire
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Rishworth and Ryburn Valley Brass Band, which won third place in
the Junior Cup at Crystal Palace
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Although photography had been around for about 60 years, it still
caused quite a stir when the camera was set up in Royd Terrace,
Hebden Bridge in 1906
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In 1906 the ancient Rushbearing Festival was revived, keeping
as close to the original format as possible. This picture of that
event shows the main procession
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Tram Crash – two dead and several injured – The
stricken tram on North Bridge after running away down New Bank
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James Parker – first Labour MP
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Thistle Bottom Accident – cart ends up in river – A crowd gathers to
look at a furniture cart belonging to Simpson & Sons Limited, of
Halifax, which crashed through fencing and into the river at Thistle
Bottom, Hebden Bridge
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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