Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1916
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Saturday, 1st January 1916:
Convoy of 78 wounded reached Halifax
- Monday, 10th January 1916:
Death of Mr John Marsh, aged 67, head of the well
known Silver Street confectionery firm
- Tuesday, 11th January 1916:
Confirmation received that Lance Corporal
L. H. Clark, of Halifax, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct
Medal for bravery during action on the Yser Canal
- Tuesday, 11th January 1916:
Arthur Wood, of Sowerby Bridge, enlisted in
the Pioneers after travelling 13,000 miles from Hong Kong
- Friday, 11th February 1916:
Opening of the Brighouse Military Hospital
- Friday, 11th February 1916:
Death of John Hartley, founder of the
"Brighouse Echo"
- Friday, 18th February 1916:
First female gasworks inspector appointed in Halifax
- Friday, 18th February 1916:
Halifax Corporation decided to insure property
against Zeppelins at £400,000
- Sunday, 20th February 1916:
Death of Mr J. E. Bunce, of Abbey Walk South,
Halifax, aged 62
- Tuesday, 22nd February 1916:
German gun captured at Loos displayed in Halifax
- Sunday, 5th March 1916:
Zeppelin alarm in Halifax
- Wednesday, 8th March 1916:
Opening of office in Commercial Street, Halifax, by
London City & Midland Bank
- Saturday, 18th March 1916:
Halifax Guardian opened a fund to raise a fund to
raise £600 for a YMCA hut for soldiers in France
- Monday, 17th April 1916:
Presentation of silver elephants to local recruiting
team for their success
- Saturday, 13th May 1916:
Annual report of Halifax Cricket & Football Club reveals
a loss of £111 15/9d on the season
- Friday, 19th May 1916:
Mr Justice Atkin, sitting at London, orders Halifax
Corporation to pay £600 damages to Paton & Baldwin for damage
sustained to its Clark Bridge Mills during the great flood of July
1914
- Sunday, 21st May 1916:
Former Halifax Courier journalist, Lieutenant Gilbert
Howarth of the Royal Field Artillery, receives the Military Cross
from the King at Buckingham Palace. The 21 year old, of Sowerby
Bridge, was awarded the medal for conspicuous gallantry during an
attack when all communications were out
- Sunday, 11th June 1916:
Service held in memory of Lord Kitchener
- Wednesday, 28th June 1916:
Freedom of the Borough of Brighouse conferred on Alderman
Robert Thornton, the Mayor, to mark his 80th birthday
- Saturday, 8th July 1916:
Dedication of the chapel at St Luke's War Hospital,
Halifax, by the Bishop of Wakefield
- Tuesday, 29th August 1916:
Sale of Brear & Brown's brewery and public houses for
£95,150 to Walter & Son Limited, Bradford
- Sunday, 3rd September 1916:
Dedication of new organ at All Saints' Church,
Elland
- Saturday, 9th September 1916:
Opening of new Sunday
School at St Thomas's Church, Greetland
- Saturday, 16th September 1916:
Roll of Honour unveiled at Stannary Church, Halifax
- Saturday, 30th September 1916:
Dedication of war memorial at All Saints Church,
Halifax
- Friday, 6th October 1916:
138 wounded soldiers, including 98 cot cases, arrived
at Halifax from Dover
- Wednesday, 1st November 1916:
Whitaker's brewery, Halifax, took over 22 premises
in Halifax area formerly belonging to Brear & Brown's brewery
- Sunday, 5th November 1916:
War shrines dedicated in Trinity parish at High
Street, South Street and Stirling Street
- Tuesday, 7th November 1916:
Felling of big chimney on Beacon Hill Road belonging
to Dean Clough Mills
- Friday, 10th November 1916:
Verdun Meat Company opened at the top of Broad
Street, Halifax, for the sale of horse meat
- Monday, 13th November 1916:
Satisfactory trial of Dr Neech's new street-sweeping
machine
- Wednesday, 6th December 1916:
The Plains, Elland, opened as an auxiliary military
hospital
- Saturday, 16th December 1916:
Death aged 55 of Mr John Henry Riley, of
Carlton Place, Halifax, the oldest woolstapler in Halifax
- Monday, 18th December 1916:
Halifax Football & Cricket Club decided to sell the
cricket pitch at Thrum Hall
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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One of the early Zeppelins which terrorised the country
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Doctors and nursing staff at the hospital at Spring Hall
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One of the Brighouse homes used as a military hospital
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The aptly named Baker's confectioners shop at 83 Hanson Lane,
Halifax, was a popular outlet for bread and cakes in 1916. (Shop was
named S. Baker)
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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