Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1902
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Wednesday, 8th January 1902:
Frederick Walter Hadwen and Alfred Ingham committed
for trial on charges of falsification and false pretences
- Monday, 20th January 1902:
Final meeting of building committee of the Royal
Halifax Infirmary reported it had been built free of debt
- Wednesday, 29th January 1902:
Alderman J. W. Smithies re-elected president of
Halifax Chamber of Commerce
- Friday, 21st February 1902:
Third Halifax Service Company of West Riding Regiment
of Volunteers, left Halifax for South Africa
- Friday, 28th February 1902:
Railway smash at Hallroyd, Todmorden
- Wednesday, 19th March 1902:
Special meeting of Halifax Town Council. Borough rates
raised from 6/2d to 7/- in the pound
- Saturday, 22nd March 1902:
John Lister of Shibden Hall, stabbed at his
door
- Tuesday, 29th April 1902:
Fire at Congregational Church, Ripponden, £750
damage
- Wednesday, 28th May 1902:
Temperatures for first three weeks were colder than in any
previous May since1841
- Wednesday, 28th May 1902:
Final batch of Halifax Militia welcomed home from South
Africa
- Monday, 16th June 1902:
Mayor and Mayoress present Coronation medals to all
scholars in Halifax
- Monday, 16th June 1902:
Halifax Town Council reverse a previous decision and
decide to send address to the King and to present 100 guineas to the
Royal Halifax Infirmary in the King's name
- Monday, 21st July 1902:
Ancient stone circle discovered at Walshaw
Dean
- Thursday, 24th July 1902:
Tramways committee decide not to embark on extensions to
Hipperholme and Brighouse
- Saturday, 2nd August 1902:
Accident to Sir Savile Crossley, one of the Halifax
MPs, at his home in Somerleyton Hall, near Lowestoft
- Friday, 8th August 1902:
King Cross Band played before the King at Buckingham
Palace
- Saturday, 9th August 1902:
Coronation celebrations. Mayor of Halifax,
Alderman William Brear attended ceremony at Westminster Abbey
- Saturday, 30th August 1902:
Re-opening of St James's Schools, Brighouse, which
were destroyed by fire in 1901
- Sunday, 7th September 1902:
Halifax Town Council receives a deputation from the
Trades and Labour Council regarding the grievances of tramway
employees
- Sunday, 7th September 1902:
Death of Mr Jonas Dearnley Taylor of Springfield,
Halifax, a founder and secretary from 1853 of the Halifax Permanent
Benefit Building Society, aged 73
- Wednesday, 24th September 1902:
Fire at the Northern Engineering Company's Works,
Parkinson Lane, causes £10,000 worth of damage
- Saturday, 27th September 1902:
National Brass Band Championship at the Crystal
Palace, won by Black Dyke. The Wyke band was placed second,
King Cross fourth and Lee Mount sixth
- Wednesday, 1st October 1902:
Laying of tramways to Hipperholme and West Vale
sanctioned by Halifax Town Council
- Tuesday, 14th October 1902:
Corner stone of the new Palace Theatre, Halifax,
laid by Mayor
- Saturday, 1st November 1902:
Municipal elections
- Sunday, 9th November 1902:
Alderman Wade elected as Mayor of
Halifax
- Wednesday, 12th November 1902:
Fire at Cinder Hill Fireclay Works, Siddal, causes
more than £2,000 worth of damage
- Saturday, 22nd November 1902:
Elland's new Public Baths opened by
Coun. W. H. Eastwood, JP
- Wednesday, 17th December 1902:
Fatal accident at the Mytholm crossing over the
railway at Hipperholme, in which 17 year old Arthur Daw was caught by
an express train and killed immediately
- Tuesday, 23rd December 1902:
Mathilde Bollwagen, a German servant, employed
by Dr Willans of Ovenden, died as a result of taking an
opium pill from a bottle in her master's dispensary
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Sowerby Bridge tram line opens
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Harry Houdini
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Coronation – Edward VII is King
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Thomas Binney Gibson and his wife, Alice, pictured in their car at
Hebden Bridge
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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