Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1923
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Saturday, 13th January 1923:
Proposal to amalgamate Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge and
Norland
- Saturday, 13th January 1923:
Corner stone and memorial stones laid at new Ebenezer
Methodist Church, Halifax
- Wednesday, 31st January 1923:
Fire damage of £30,000 at Rosemount Dye-works,
Rastrick
- Thursday, 1st February 1923:
Halifax road widening inquiry
- Wednesday, 7th February 1923:
Licences revoked at Chatham (sic) & Jennings Inn,
Luddenden Foot and Old Red Lion Inn, Sowood
- Thursday, 8th February 1923:
Rochdale Canal Company's reservoirs and water rights
sold to Oldham and Rochdale Corporations for £400,000
- Tuesday, 13th February 1923:
Big snowstorms in Halifax and district
- Thursday, 22nd February 1923:
Greater Sowerby scheme agreed at a joint conference
- Monday, 12th March 1923:
Huddersfield to Brighouse tramway opened
- Friday, 16th March 1923:
Missing pig appeal case; council loses
- Tuesday, 27th March 1923:
Norland ratepayers vote against amalgamation with
Sowerby Bridge
- Friday, 30th March 1923:
Smallpox at Hebden Bridge
- Sunday, 29th April 1923:
Luddenden and Midgley war memorial unveiled
- Saturday, 26th May 1923:
Norland ratepayers vote 130 to 106 to join Sowerby Bridge
- Wednesday, 30th May 1923:
Prince of Wales at Queensbury
- Thursday, 14th June 1923:
Revealed that upper side of Fly Flats Reservoir was
being undermined and would cost between £30,000 and
£50,000 to repair
- Friday, 22nd June 1923:
Clay House, Greetland, sold for £2,000
- Monday, 23rd July 1923:
General Booth at Brighouse
- Saturday, 28th July 1923:
Farming experiment by Sowerby Bridge Industrial Society
made loss of £10,089
- Saturday, 28th July 1923:
Parachute descent at Manor Heath, Halifax
- Saturday, 1st September 1923:
Japanese earthquake. Among those killed was Mr
William Haigh, vice consul of Yokohama, son of Mr & Mrs
W. Haigh of Sowerby Bridge
- Monday, 3rd September 1923:
New Sowerby Bridge post office opened
- Sunday, 9th September 1923:
Hipperholme war memorial unveiled
- Sunday, 23rd September 1923:
Wadsworth war memorial unveiled
- Thursday, 27th September 1923:
Sale of Lord Mexborough's estate at Elland
- Friday, 5th October 1923:
Brighouse Echo first published from the Courier
building in Halifax
- Saturday, 6th October 1923:
150th anniversary of Mount Zion Chapel, Ogden
- Saturday, 3rd November 1923:
Quarter Sessions granted to Halifax
- Friday, 9th November 1923:
A bequest from Mr J. W. Horsfall is to be used to
buy the Crossley and Porter sanatorium and convert it into a home
for the blind
- Saturday, 10th November 1923:
Jagger Green Baptist Church diamond jubilee
- Sunday, 11th November 1923:
Norwood Green war memorial unveiled
- Tuesday, 13th November 1923:
Floods at Mytholmroyd
- Monday, 19th November 1923:
Mrs Ada Crossley, landlady of the Stafford Arms
Inn, Halifax, killed by a car
- Tuesday, 20th November 1923:
Conservatives decide not to contest Elland division
- Tuesday, 4th December 1923:
Runaway motor lorry wrecks George Street property
- Thursday, 6th December 1923:
General Election: Sir Robert Kay (Lib) returned for
Elland division and Mr A. Williams (Lib) for Sowerby division
- Monday, 24th December 1923:
Bodies of two women who died at St Luke's
Hospital, Halifax, interred in wrong graves
- Tuesday, 25th December 1923:
Motor accident to the Mayor and Mayoress of
Halifax
- Wednesday, 26th December 1923:
Mr J. Willoughby Jardine appointed first Recorder
of Halifax
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Queensbury Goes En Fete – HRH The Prince of Wales chatting
with three Halifax members of the British Legion at
Queensbury – picture shows: the Prince, Mr J. Darwin
and Mr G. Marsland
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Villages Remember the War Dead – This was the poignant scene outside
St Mary's Church, Luddenden, on April 29th when a war
memorial was unveiled
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Civic Leader hurt in car crash – The scene
immediately after the collision at the bottom of Free School
Lane. The Mayor's car is on the left
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Just Champion! – Members and officials of Luddenden Foot AFC
proudly display the trophies won during the 1923-24 season
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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