Entries beginning Brighouse ... and The Brighouse ... are gathered together in this Sidetrack.
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Population,
Calder Registration District and
Parish statistics
In 2005, merged with Brighouse Light Opera Society to become
Brighouse Theatre Productions
It was superseded by a branch of the Yorkshire Penny Bank
Some members suggested that the venue was attracting drinkers, rather
than bird fanciers, so they moved to the Wheelers' Club.
It was still in existence in the 1930s.
See
Brighouse Cage Bird & Fanciers Society
Recorded in December 1888.
See
Radicals and
A. B. Wakefield
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Local Newspapers
In 1874, the name was changed to The Brighouse & Rastrick Express.
In 1874, Cooper Brothers were the proprietors.
The Friday edition of 4 pages cost ½d and the Saturday edition
of 8 pages cost 1d.
After the first year, the name was changed to the Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette.
See
Local Newspapers
See
John Edward Blackburn Howe and
Local Newspapers
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Local Newspapers
Established 1886.
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Squire Appleyard and
Squire Aspinall
Recorded in 1904
as the Lightcliffe Laundry.
On
1st March 1920,
there was an explosion at the laundry, killing the proprietor,
Johnnie Kendall.
An advertisement for the business in 1939 announced
Fine open air drying
See
Ernest Armitage,
Herbert Armitage,
Fred Berry,
John Vincent Floyd Bottomley,
George Percy Bunce,
Brian Evans,
Jack Goodall,
David Richard Marshall,
Herbert Wood and
Milnes Wood
See
Band of Hope
See
Local Newspapers
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Local Newspapers
Joah Pearson was owner and editor of the paper [18??].
In 1878, Charlotte Oates wrote a poem on the Russo-Turkish war
which was published in the Gazette.
Jonathan Caldwell worked for the paper.
The paper ceased publication in 1???.
See
Local Newspapers
See
John Edward Blackburn Howe,
Charles Jones Ormerod and
Hanson Ormerod
Their collection of stuffed birds and animals was transferred to The Rydings and meetings were held there from 1898
The Brighouse and Rastrick Temperance Brass Band was formed in
1881.
Members had to sign the pledge of abstinence.
In 1929, the name was changed to the Brighouse & Rastrick Band.
See
Samuel Henry Byrne and
Arthur Oakes Pearce
See
Brighouse Temperance Society
In 1937, it was enlarged to encompass Birkenshaw,
Hunsworth, Hartshead and part of Clifton.
Brighouse and Spenborough became a parliamentary constituency
with 1 member in the same year.
MPs included
See
Brighouse and
MPs for Elland
See
Vaccination
Opened by Mayor Bob Thornton on 2nd (or 5th) July 1913.
The facilities included a swimming pool, plunge baths, slipper baths
and showers.
The separate entrances for men and for women are still visible.
Paul Hartley writes of the baths in the 1950s and 1960s
The pool attendant was called Raymond.
The children used to chant
The baths continued in use throughout the 20th century, although they
were often likely to be demolished and superseded by newer facilities
when the area and the former Sugden's Flour Mill site is
redeveloped.
In 2006 – and against considerable local opposition – the baths were
closed after glass from the ceiling fell into the pool and the
premises were considered unsafe.
After the usual wrangling over how much, where and when, new baths
were promised on a site at Wellholme Park in 2008.
The new Pool and Fitness Centre opened on Woodvale Road, Brighouse in
October 2010.
The old baths were demolished [from 2014]
See
Bradford Road Baths, Brighouse
Around 1865, the Commissioners were superseded by the Brighouse Local Board.
The motto of Brighouse Borough Council was
By labour and prudence
Alderman William Smith was the first Mayor.
In 1937, the Borough was augmented by the addition of
Bailiff Bridge,
Hipperholme,
Lightcliffe,
Norwood Green and
Southowram.
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Mayors of Brighouse,
Brighouse Municipal Elections,
Brighouse Board of Commissioners,
Brighouse Local Board,
Brighouse Town Hall,
Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale,
James Dyson,
Rastrick Gas Company,
Orlando Sladdin and
Alexander Oldfield Stock
See
Tommy Whitaker
The newer club was established some time after 1895.
From 1906, the club was based at the Assembly Rooms, Brighouse.
In 1917, Edward P. Chambers was honorary secretary.
The club closed in 19??.
See
Sam Blackburn and
Brighouse Flying Club
It has been said that, at one time, the Fire Chief liked a drink, and
his wife frequently stood in for him on a call.
The crew comprised 7 men, including the driver.
In 19??, the driver fell off and was killed when the rear wheels ran
over him.
See
Brighouse Fire Station,
Alexander Carmichael,
Henry Barber fire engine and
Neptune fire engine
In 1853, this was stone masons J. & G. Dyson.
In 1868, the business was taken over and named Brighouse Brick,
Tile & Stone Company Limited.
In 1874, the St John Mission Church, Rastrick was built to serve
the increasing population in Gooder Lane, many of whom worked for the
company.
In 1877, they had another brickworks in Huddersfield, and by 1895 had
a third in Littleborough.
In that year, the three plants made almost ¼ million facing
bricks per week of which perhaps 70,000 were made at Brighouse.
They employed around 100 workers [1895].
In 1895, George Watkinson of Hipperholme was Chairman of the
company.
They claimed to have the largest brick kilns in the district making
several types of bricks and flooring tiles.
The impact of their quarrying can be seen in the cliffs behind the
works.
In November 1899, the company's name was listed in businesses
represented at Bankruptcy Buildings, London.
Business reduced after World War I, and the company closed in 1962
due, it is said, to competition from cheap bricks by the London
Brick Company.
The site was demolished for redevelopment.
Miller's Oils now stands on the site.
Three rows of workers' housing –
Brick Terrace,
Tile Terrace
and
Brick & Tile Terrace
- built for workers at the Company stand nearby
Recorded in 1981, when
It was demolished around 1988.
See
Brighouse British Legion Hall War Memorial
In August 2005, the plans seemed to have been forgotten, and the
estimated costs were found to have spiralled.
In July 2008, work finally began on the new bus station, and this
opened on Ganny Road, at a cost of £2.38 million, in
May 2009 ... although
See
Brighouse & District Cage Bird Society
The basin was used by barges delivering coal to Brighouse Gas Works
The last delivery was around 1956.
The basin was improved in 1974 and there is now a small marina.
The canal rejoins the Calder at Brighouse Lower Lock just below the
basin.
See
Anchor Inn,
Brighouse Gas Works, Mill Lane,
Brighouse Low Lock,
Brighouse Top Lock,
Brighouse Wire Wharf,
Clifton colliery railway,
Navigation Warehouse, Brighouse and
Old Lock House, Brighouse
Those living here have included
It is now a private house
See
Chamber of Commerce and
Brigadier General Richard Edgar Sugden
This is now an annual parade in late June.
The procession is still in existence, and is held in June.
It starts at Hove Edge and finishes at Wellholme Park – weather
permitting
See
Arthur Boothroyd,
Joe Naylor,
Joah Pearson,
Whiteley Singleton,
Arthur Sladdin and
Orlando Sladdin
Members included
See
Pals Battalion
It had been discontinued by 1880.
It was revived in 1909 and premises were bought in Churchfields Road.
In 1926, it moved to the Parish Hall
Question:
Can anyone confirm that this was connected with St Martin's Parish Church, Brighouse?
On
11th December 1883,
much of the station was blown away in gales which swept Britain.
The station closed on 14th September 1931 – the first of Brighouse's
stations to close.
It was demolished on 16th October 1934.
Trains continued to use the line until 1948.
The line closed in August 1952.
The viaduct which carried the line stood next to
the wooden shop was demolished in 1974.
Station Road, which led to the station, still exists at the
bottom of Clifton Common.
The design includes
By labour and by prudence
The closed steel helmet is used by all permitted corporations
In August 1878, the acquired a billiard licence.
In February 1886, a newspaper reported that
See
Rose & Crown Cocoa & Coffee Tavern, Brighouse
See
Richard Kershaw
See
Brighouse Co-operative Stores Stabbing [1929]
On 10th December 1929, a Wyke boot repairer was sent to prison for 12
months at Leeds Assizes for the attack
Question:
Can anyone tell me anything?
Richard Henry Beaumont was Secretary [1880]
Proprietors: Geo. Clayton & Son of 4 East Cliffe, Lightcliffe [Res]
A succession of children were paraded two abreast from the various
schools through the borough in an attempt to teach them all to swim.
The swimming teacher was a formidable lady – Mrs Oates – who
delighted in hanging a long pole just out of reach insisting that
they should swim towards it.
This long suffering lady must have taught hundreds, if not thousands,
of Brighouse children to swim.
repeatedly and loudly, much to the annoyance of the adults present
Raymond sells fish
three ha'pence a dish
sewering, lighting and draining in the hamlet of Brighouse
Labore et Prudentia
there are no toilet facilities, and the bus station closes at 8:00 pm
after which time passengers must wait outdoors!
anyone above the age of 15 who is not an enemy of the church
Labore et prudentia
the Company closed more than 13 months ago, and since then, the
furniture etc have been sold, realising more than £205 ... and
a proposal will be made for winding up the company.
The loss to shareholders by the enterprise is stated to be
£933 0/5d