Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1925
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Thursday, 1st January 1925:
Floods at Mytholmroyd
- Tuesday, 20th January 1925:
Dame Clara Butt at the Victoria Hall
- Wednesday, 28th January 1925:
Ministry of Health inquiry into the widening of
George Street, Halifax
- Wednesday, 4th February 1925:
Fire at Paton and Baldwin's mill
- Wednesday, 11th February 1925:
Flood at Mytholmroyd
- Monday, 16th February 1925:
Clinic opened at Elland
- Wednesday, 18th February 1925:
Road subsidence between Elland and Brighouse
- Wednesday, 11th March 1925:
Visit of Mr Walter de la Mare to the Halifax Child
Study Association
- Tuesday, 17th March 1925:
Ministry of Transport inquiry into application for the
bus licences by O. and C. Holdsworth
- Thursday, 26th March 1925:
Driver and fireman of goods train killed at Luddenden
Foot after collision with buffers
- Monday, 30th March 1925:
Halifax and Huddersfield electricity pact
- Wednesday, 1st April 1925:
Lower tram fares introduced
- Saturday, 2nd May 1925:
New bowling green opened at Siddal
- Saturday, 2nd May 1925:
Celebration of quadri-centenary at Illingworth Church;
the festival lasted a week and was marked by a series of striking
pageants
- Tuesday, 12th May 1925:
Death of Mr H. Ling Roth, former keeper of Bankfield
Museum, Halifax
- Thursday, 28th May 1925:
Retirement of Coun J. P. Farrar of Mill House, Midgley,
after 60 years' service at Oats Royd Mill, Midgley
- Saturday, 30th May 1925:
The Grand Theatre, Halifax, opened as a cinema
- Saturday, 20th June 1925:
Bicentenary of Rishworth School celebrated; Archbishop
of York present
- Thursday, 2nd July 1925:
Bus licences granted to Holdsworth brothers on
four routes – Barkisland, Bingley, Brighouse and Huddersfield
- Wednesday, 15th July 1925:
Sod cutting ceremony at Wakefield Corporation's new
reservoir in the Ryburn Valley
- Monday, 13th July 1925:
North Dean woods, Greetland, ablaze
- Monday, 20th July 1925:
Halifax postal hours extended to 8 pm
- Wednesday, 22nd July 1925:
Sale of Pye Nest mansion and 24 acres of grounds
withdrawn at £7,000
- Friday, 24th July 1925:
Start of textile dispute
- Wednesday, 29th July 1925:
Opening of new x-ray ward at Halifax Infirmary
- Saturday, 1st August 1925:
Midgley recreation ground opened
- Monday, 10th August 1925:
Licence granted to Messrs Holdsworth to run
buses (Hebble)
- Monday, 24th August 1925:
Ripponden Rushbearing festival revived
- Saturday, 12th September 1925:
Death of well known Halifax sports outfitter Mr
F. Coyle, of Gladstone Road, Halifax
- Monday, 21st September 1925:
Bus service to Warley started
- Tuesday, 29th September 1925:
Presentation of Carnegie award to George
Hoyle, of Crown Point, Boothtown, Halifax, for gallantry at
the Union Mills fire on November 27 1918
- Saturday, 3rd October 1925:
Gift of £5,000 to build an operating theatre at
the Halifax Infirmary
- Saturday, 3rd October 1925:
Foundation stone laid of Sunday School at
St Paul's Church, King Cross
- Wednesday, 7th October 1925:
Permission to rebuild the Talbot Inn, Illingworth,
refused by licensing magistrates
- Wednesday, 14th October 1925:
Foundation of Halifax Women's Luncheon Club
- Sunday, 18th October 1925:
Diamond jubilee of Middle Dean Street Methodist
Church, West Vale, and centenary of Elland Wesleyan Sunday School
- Sunday, 25th October 1925:
Mr Neville Chamberlain MP, the Housing Minister,
opened Halifax Workshops for the blind
- Thursday, 12th November 1925:
New premises of Halifax Industrial Society opened
in Northgate
- Friday, 20th November 1925:
Death of Queen Alexandra
- Friday, 11th December 1925:
Smallpox case at Lightcliffe
- Thursday, 17th December 1925:
Northowram Hall destroyed by fire
- Friday, 18th December 1925:
Halifax Rugby League Club appeal for finances;
overdrawn by £1,970
- Tuesday, 22nd December 1925:
Second smallpox case discovered at Lightcliffe
- Tuesday, 22nd December 1925:
Heavy snowfall and blizzard – a white Christmas
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Halifax Acclaims Princess – Royal visitor opens new maternity ward at
Infirmary – picture of Princess Mary
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Sowerby Bridge Prize-winning Band – The highly successful Sowerby
Bridge Subscription Prize Band pictured with the trophies they won
during 1925
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Tramway Extended Through Skircoat Green – The Halifax tramways
network was extended to Skircoat Green in June 1925, a through
service to Pellon. A mother and child are about to board the tram at
Skircoat terminus
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All the fun of the swings at the new Midgley recreation ground,
opened in August, 1925
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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