Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1904
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Thursday, 28th January 1904:
Lord Goschen addressed anti-protection meeting at
the Victoria Hall, Halifax
- Wednesday, 17th February 1904:
New electricity works of Hebden Bridge
District Council opened
- Saturday, 20th February 1904:
Opening of new Liberal Club at Sowerby Bridge,
total cost £3,500
- Wednesday, 2nd March 1904:
Halifax Town Council adopts plans for a new school at
Salterhebble costing £14,157
- Saturday, 26th March 1904:
Opening a new hall, built at the Bridge End
Congregational Church, Brighouse, in memory of the late
Alderman Henry Sugden at a cost of £1,800
- Wednesday, 6th April 1904:
Protest made to Halifax Town Council about its treatment
of voluntary school teachers
- Monday, 11th April 1904:
New Council school at Copley costing £8,500
formerly opened by Councillor A. Crabtree, chairman of Halifax
Education Committee
- Saturday, 23rd April 1904:
Halifax Football team wins Northern Union Challenge Cup
for second year running, beating Warrington by one goal, two tries
(eight points) to one try (three points)
- Tuesday, 17th May 1904:
Opening of a new organ in Birchcliffe Chapel, Hebden
Bridge
- Tuesday, 24th May 1904:
Foundation stone laid at new Wesleyan Sunday School, King
Cross
- Saturday, 11th June 1904:
Profits of Halifax Gasworks of £24,115 for the
year ending March 31 announced
- Saturday, 25th June 1904:
Celebration of 125th anniversary of Steep Lane Baptist
Chapel, Sowerby
- Saturday, 25th June 1904:
Resignation of the whole of the Greetland Fire Brigade
- Saturday, 2nd July 1904:
Sowerby by-election.
Liberal candidate Mr J. S. Higham is elected MP with 6,049 votes
while the Unionist candidate, Mr W. A. Simpson-Hinchliffe, gains
3,877 votes
- Friday, 22nd July 1904:
Death of Wilson Barrett, famous actor, aged 68.
He began his career in Halifax at the old Theatre Royal
- Wednesday, 27th July 1904:
Lewis Crowther (48) labourer of Halifax sentenced at
the Leeds Assizes to three years in prison for the attempted murder
of his wife, Mary Emma Crowther of Green Lane, Halifax, who he shot
with a revolver
- Tuesday, 2nd August 1904:
Induction of Canon Savage as Vicar of Halifax
- Wednesday, 3rd August 1904:
Hottest day in Halifax for four years, the temperature
being 107·6° in the sun and 79·1° in the shade
- Wednesday, 3rd August 1904:
Mr Charles Clarkson of Halifax presented with the Royal
Humane Society's Certificate for saving a girl from drowning in the
canal at Elland
- Wednesday, 7th September 1904:
Halifax Town Council agrees to extend tramways from
Sowerby Bridge to Triangle at an estimated cost of £4,200
- Saturday, 29th October 1904:
Stoppage announced of Spring Bank Silk Spinning Mill,
Brighouse, run by Messrs J. W. Armitage & Sons Limited, owing to
bad trade
- Monday, 31st October 1904:
Elland Mills destroyed by fire.
Damage estimated at £8,000
- Saturday, 12th November 1904:
Formal opening of New Village club house, presented
to Warley by Mr A. S. McCrea
- Tuesday, 29th November 1904:
Lee Mount Infants' School partially destroyed by
fire.
Damage estimated at £1,500
- Friday, 2nd December 1904:
Unionist demonstration at Victoria Hall, Halifax.
Speeches by Sir Carne Rasch MP and Sir Savile Crossley MP
- Monday, 5th December 1904:
Goods train of 70 waggons in collision at Todmorden
causing great damage
- Tuesday, 6th December 1904:
Winston Churchill MP addressed Liberal meeting at
Brighouse Town Hall
- Wednesday, 7th December 1904:
Railway disaster near Brighouse.
Isaiah Dewis (65) of Low Moor, a guard in charge of a goods train
killed
- Friday, 16th December 1904:
Keir Hardie MP addressed Labour Party meeting in
Mechanics' Hall, Halifax
- Saturday, 17th December 1904:
Opening of Woodhouse Bridge over the canal
at Copley by Alderman B. Firth.
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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The grocery department and staff at Sowerby Bridge Co-op in 1904
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Tramways Extension – Laying tram lines was a very labour intensive
job, with dozens of teams of labourers needed to put the heavy metal
tracks in position.
This rare picture shows track laying between Brighouse and Bailiff
Bridge.
The line was opened in October, 1904, but was the first to be closed
in March 1929
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Life on the farm in 1904.
This rare picture was taken at Stod Fold Farm, Mixenden, Halifax,
and shows members of the THOMAS family – mother Betty and children
Edward, Sarah and Emily – together with their animals and equipment
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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