Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1901
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Wednesday, 2nd January 1901:
At Town Hall Council, borrowing powers sought for
£26,478 for street improvements
- Monday, 14th January 1901:
Halifax School Board accepts tenders for a new
school at Battinson Road at £31,547
- Wednesday, 6th February 1901:
Opening of sewage works at Salterhebble
- Friday, 8th February 1901:
Opening of the new Victoria Hall
- Saturday, 16th February 1901:
Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Halifax
Industrial Society
- Tuesday, 19th March 1901:
Opening of new infants' department at Queens Road Board
School by the chairman of the Halifax School Board. Cost
£4,965 – accommodation 400
- Tuesday, 9th April 1901:
Opening of St Luke's Hospital, built by the Halifax
Board of Guardians at a cost of more than £100,000, by Mr
J. W. Tillotson
- Friday, 12th April 1901:
Skircoat ratepayers protest against the building of a
tramways lift at Salterhebble
- Thursday, 25th April 1901:
Opening of the tramways to Luddenden Foot, Northowram
and Queensbury
- Monday, 20th May 1901:
Mr F. de G. English appointed conductor at the Halifax
Choral Society
- Wednesday, 22nd May 1901:
Public meeting convened by the Mayor decides to erect a
local memorial to Queen Victoria
- Thursday, 23rd May 1901:
Annual meeting of the Halifax Cricket and Football
Club. Total loss of the year reported to be £3,125
- Monday, 17th June 1901:
Halifax School Board decides to build a new school at
Haugh Shaw for infants
- Monday, 1st July 1901:
Opening of the tramways to Shelf
- Tuesday, 2nd July 1901:
Opening of the tramways to Mytholmroyd
- Wednesday, 10th July 1901:
Conservative Union for the Sowerby Division formed
- Sunday, 21st July 1901:
First service for 27 years in Lightcliffe Old Church
- Saturday, 27th July 1901:
Laying of memorial stones of new Primitive
Methodist Chapel at Pye Nest
- Friday, 2nd August 1901:
Opening of the Bradford tramways to Queensbury
- Wednesday, 14th August 1901:
Councillor W. Spencer laid the memorial stone of the
Elland Public Baths
- Monday, 19th August 1901:
Halifax School Board accepts tenders amounting to
£7,683 11/- for the new school at Copley
- Monday, 26th August 1901:
Dr Woodyatt appointed medical officer of the new
Workhouse Hospital at Salterhebble
- Saturday, 7th September 1901:
Fire at Brearley Hall
- Saturday, 14th September 1901:
Re-opening of Coley Church after restoration and
renovation at a cost of £2,000
- Monday, 16th September 1901:
Sunnyside Board School built at a cost of
£19,229 13/4d, formally opened by Mr Thomas Butterworth
- Thursday, 19th September 1901:
Opening of Halifax tramway system to Southowram
- Tuesday, 1st October 1901:
Discontinuance of Sunday trains to Triangle, Ripponden
and Rishworth
- Wednesday, 2nd October 1901:
Holmfield to Southowram Light Railway scheme
sanctioned by Halifax Town Council
- Friday, 4th October 1901:
Meeting of creditors of Messrs John Hadwen & Sons,
silk spinners, Kebroyd Mills, Triangle. Liabilities of
£107,748 17/7d and assets of £37,263 11/-
- Monday, 21st October 1901:
Mrs Jane Kaye of Highfield Farm, Southowram, gored
to death by a bull
- Tuesday, 29th October 1901:
Opening of new sewage works at Salterhebble
- Saturday, 9th November 1901:
Election of Alderman W. Brear, for third consecutive
year as Mayor of Halifax, Coun. S. E. Hirst as Mayor of
Brighouse, and Alderman W. Ormerod as Mayor of
Todmorden
- Saturday, 7th December 1901:
Cab driver, Lister Gibson, aged 45, of Rastrick,
killed instantly by his head coming into contact with an iron girder
while driving a wagonette through the Saddle Hotel Yard, Halifax
- Wednesday, 11th December 1901:
Resignation of Miss Wilkie, matron, and several
nurses engaged at Workhouse Infirmary
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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This Busy Town of Ours – Commercial Street, Halifax, at the turn of
the century
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A Nation Mourns – Queen Victoria passes away – picture of Queen
Victoria
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The Grand Theatre, North Bridge where the production was
interrupted with the sad news (passing of Queen Victoria)
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St Jude's Church, Savile Park, Halifax, which rang a mournful
bell
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Banking on Success – The Halifax Commercial Bank (now TSB) Silver
Street, Halifax
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The new St Luke's Hospital (now Halifax General Hospital) which
opened on April 9, 1901
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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