Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1907
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Tuesday, 1st January 1907:
Todmorden Motor Bus service opened
- Thursday, 3rd January 1907:
Branch of the Women's Social and Political Union formed
at Halifax
- Saturday, 19th January 1907:
Ripponden Commercial Company's jubilee celebrations
- Saturday, 19th January 1907:
Death of Mr John Broughton, aged 92, Hipperholme's
oldest resident
- Thursday, 31st January 1907:
Dr T. M. Dolan resigns his post as medical officer
at the Halifax Workhouse, having held the office since 1868
- Monday, 4th February 1907:
Traders' Association formed at King Cross
- Friday, 1st March 1907:
Opening of Shelf Sewage Works
- Saturday, 2nd March 1907:
Opening of Bethel Methodist New Connexion Church,
Brighouse, by the Lord Mayor of Leeds
- Saturday, 16th March 1907:
Sod cutting ceremony for the new Sunday School at
Bethel Methodist New Connexion Church, Ovenden
- Saturday, 23rd March 1907:
Opening of new United Methodist Church at Boothtown by
Mrs Eli Fletcher
- Saturday, 6th April 1907:
Sod cutting ceremony of the proposed new Baptist Church
at Ovenden
- Monday, 22nd April 1907:
Fire at Elland Flour Mill, caused damage between
£2,000 and £3,000
- Saturday, 4th May 1907:
Celebration of 75th anniversary of Parrock Nook Chapel,
Rishworth
- Saturday, 11th May 1907:
Opening of Ward's Cottage Homes, Upper Washer Lane,
by the Mayor of Halifax, Alderman Richard Dearden Ward
- Monday, 27th May 1907:
Opening of Greetland Sewage Works, built at a cost of
£4,000
- Wednesday, 29th May 1907:
Golf Club formed at Lightcliffe
- Saturday, 1st June 1907:
Stone-laying ceremony at the new Mission Church, Norwood
Green
- Saturday, 1st June 1907:
Foundation stones laid at the new Baptist Church, Lee
Mount
- Monday, 10th June 1907:
Death as the result of falling from a crane door at
Messrs J. & J. Baldwin, Halifax, of 54-year-old Mr Charles Haigh,
choirmaster at King Cross Methodist New Connexion Church
- Saturday, 13th July 1907:
Stone laying ceremony of the new school at Bethel
Methodist New Connexion Church, Ovenden
- Thursday, 25th July 1907:
New Mission Church at Pye Nest opened by the Bishop of
Wakefield
- Saturday, 27th July 1907:
Demonstration over Walshaw Dean Moors over the alleged
closing of a public right of way
- Wednesday, 7th August 1907:
Halifax Town Council sanctions building of a new
road from Water Lane to Whitegate at a cost of £750
- Saturday, 10th August 1907:
Inaugural meeting of the Eaves Self-Help
Manufacturers' Limited at Hebden Bridge promoted chiefly in the
interests of weavers who were out on strike
- Wednesday, 14th August 1907:
Jubilee celebrations of the opening of People's
Park
- Saturday, 14th September 1907:
Dedication of a new clock and bell at St John's
Church, West Vale
- Friday, 27th September 1907:
Railway disaster at Todmorden, Holme Railway
Station wrecked and William John Pim, assistant station master,
killed
- Tuesday, 1st October 1907:
Opening of the new reservoirs built by the Halifax
Corporation at Walshaw Dean
- Wednesday, 9th October 1907:
Madame Patti in Halifax
- Tuesday, 15th October 1907:
Tram disaster at Bolton Brow, Sowerby Bridge,
five people killed and more than 30 injured
- Friday, 8th November 1907:
Lord Salisbury presides at a meeting in the
Mechanics' Hall, Halifax, to support the principle of definite
religious teaching in schools
- Saturday, 9th November 1907:
Alderman William Wallace elected Mayor of
Halifax, A. O. Stocks as Mayor of Brighouse
and Alderman Abraham Crossley re-elected Mayor of Todmorden
- Thursday, 28th November 1907:
Jubilee reunion at the Halifax Blue Coat School
- Wednesday, 11th December 1907:
Public ball to celebrate the centenary of the Royal
Halifax Infirmary
- Saturday, 14th December 1907:
New Zealand (professional) Rugby football team in
Halifax. Results of match at Thrum Hall, Halifax three tries (nine
points), New Zealand two goals (four points)
- Thursday, 19th December 1907:
Three men injured by an explosion at the coal pit of
Messrs Brooke's Limited, of Walterclough, Southowram
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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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