Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1910
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Saturday, 1st January 1910:
Memorial window to Dr J. H. Thompson unveiled at
Mytholmroyd Church
- Monday, 24th January 1910:
Freedom of Brighouse conferred on Alderman and Mrs
Smith of Lands House, Rastrick, former mayor and mayoress
of the town
- Monday, 7th February 1910:
Death of Mr J. Foster, aged 78, chairman of
John Foster & Son, Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury
- Thursday, 24th February 1910:
Mr J. H. Whitley MP appointed deputy chairman of
Ways and Means Committee of the House of Commons
- Wednesday, 2nd March 1910:
Halifax Town Council agrees to take over the remedial
work rendered necessary by the leakages at Walshaw Dean
- Saturday, 2nd April 1910:
Mr G. B. Newport appointed principal of the Crossley
and Porter Orphan Home and School
- Sunday, 3rd April 1910:
The old colours of the 4th Battalion West Riding
Regiment deposited in All Souls' Church
- Sunday, 3rd April 1910:
Body of the secretary of the National Free Church
Council, Rev T. Law, formerly of Sowerby, found in the sea off
Brighton
- Saturday, 9th April 1910:
Jubilee of Sowerby Bridge Co-op celebrated
- Saturday, 14th May 1910:
Ryburn Golf Club's course at Norland opened
- Thursday, 16th June 1910:
Soyland's new sewage works opened
- Wednesday, 22nd June 1910:
Amalgamation of the Halifax Joint Stock and the
Halifax & Huddersfield Union Banks agreed at meetings of the
shareholders
- Saturday, 2nd July 1910:
Recreation ground opened at Stainland
- Wednesday, 6th July 1910:
Halifax Town Council agrees to buy a motor fire engine at
a cost of £850
- Saturday, 27th August 1910:
New Secondary and Technical School opened at
Brighouse
- Saturday, 3rd September 1910:
Salvation Army Citadel at Brighouse opened
- Saturday, 10th September 1910:
Mr F. W. Dyson, formerly of Halifax, appointed
Astronomer Royal
- Sunday, 11th September 1910:
The body of Mr F. L. Helliwell, draper of Crown
Street, Halifax, recovered from the River Swale near Topcliffe, Thirsk
- Thursday, 15th September 1910:
Foundation stone laid of the new police station at
King Cross
- Saturday, 24th September 1910:
First sod cut on the site of the new church of
St Matthew's, Northowram
- Saturday, 1st October 1910:
Conservative Club opened for West Vale
- Saturday, 8th October 1910:
American millionaire Mr Fels visits
Halifax and addresses trade unionists at the Friendly and Trades
Club
- Tuesday, 25th October 1910:
First sod cut on the site of the new church of St
Paul's
- Wednesday, 9th November 1910:
Alderman Whitley Thomson re-elected Mayor of
Halifax for the third time, Councillor
G. T. Ramsden appointed Deputy Mayor, Alderman
Thornton re-elected Mayor of Brighouse and Alderman
E. Lord re-elected Mayor of Todmorden
- Saturday, 3rd December 1910:
Halifax election result, J. H. Whitley (Lib) 8,778
votes
- Saturday, 3rd December 1910:
New Co-op store at Skircoat Green opened
- Tuesday, 6th December 1910:
Halifax Artillery Barracks in Arden
Road, Halifax, gutted by fire
- Thursday, 8th December 1910:
Elland election result, C. P. Trevelyan (Lib) 6,613
votes
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Lovers Take Lives in Suicide Pact post mortem reveals that servant
girl was pregnant. Picture of Joseph Pitchforth and Annie Quick
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Day out at the Crags – Hardcastle Crags was a popular place for
people to spend their leisure time. Picture shows wagonette driven by
four white horses, packed with 25 people, coming down Scout Road
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Keeping fit in 1910 – Edwardian schools placed great emphasis on
physical education. Here we see a group of girls during a P E lesson
in the gymnasium of the new secondary school at Holme Street, Hebden
Bridge
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The scene outside Halifax Town Hall shortly before the Mayor of
Halifax made the proclamation
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Nation in Mourning – King Edward dies of pneumonia – Picture
of Edward VII opening Halifax Town Hall in August, 1863
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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