Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1908
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Monday, 13th January 1908:
Salvation Army Men's Hostel and Metropole opened
in Carlton Place, Halifax
- Saturday, 15th February 1908:
Opening of the Imperial Café, George Square
and the Café Royal, King Edward Street, Halifax
- Sunday, 23rd February 1908:
Bursting of the new 18 inch water main in Brighouse
- Wednesday, 26th February 1908:
James Widdop (25) of Southowram and James Hobbs (17)
of Elland, fatally injured as a result of falling down a hoist at
Valley Mills, Elland
- Saturday, 14th March 1908:
Mr W. Edwards, senior classical master at
Bradford Grammar School, appointed headmaster of Heath Grammar
School
- Wednesday, 1st April 1908:
Salary of the Chief Constable of Halifax raised to
£450 per year
- Saturday, 18th April 1908:
Memorial stone placed over the grave of Conductor
Robinson in Mount Zion Church, Illingworth,
who died the previous October in the Pye Nest tram accident
- Saturday, 25th April 1908:
Opening of the new day schools at All Saints',
Salterhebble, by the Lord Bishop of Wakefield
- Thursday, 21st May 1908:
First wedding at Boothtown United Methodist Church
- Saturday, 23rd May 1908:
Halifax Corporation fined £500 for non-compliance
with a County Court order to abstain from polluting certain streams
with sewage
- Wednesday, 27th May 1908:
Travelling tinplate worker, Barney Crosby, aged 74,
fatally injured when knocked down by a motor cab in Broad Street,
Halifax
- Saturday, 30th May 1908:
Opening the new Baptist Chapel at Lee Mount
- Tuesday, 2nd June 1908:
Extensive damage to Lower Harper Royd, Norland, after
being struck by lightning
- Saturday, 6th June 1908:
Halifax MP J. H. Whitley appointed a Government whip
with a salary of £1,000 per annum
- Tuesday, 23rd June 1908:
Body of Mrs Annie Richardson of Briggate,
Brighouse, found shockingly mutilated in Morley Tunnel. Open verdict
returned at the inquest
- Saturday, 4th July 1908:
New Conservative club opened at Boothtown
- Tuesday, 14th July 1908:
West Vale section of the Elland Territorials formed
- Monday, 20th July 1908:
Open air school for children started at
Bermerside
- Tuesday, 28th July 1908:
Foundation stone laid of new Hebden Bridge Secondary
School
- Monday, 21st September 1908:
One platelayer killed and others injured on the
railway near Greetland, John Biddulph of Copley
died after the accident
- Saturday, 26th September 1908:
Mr J. R. Sewell, iron founder died in his foundry
aged 41
- Wednesday, 30th September 1908:
Retirement of Mr B. Cordingley, town crier of
Halifax, after 28 years
- Tuesday, 20th October 1908:
Mr J. Glossop of Hipperholme killed on the
railway at Wyke
- Saturday, 24th October 1908:
Tragic death of Mr E. B. Scott of Halifax at
the Bradford Lancashire & Yorkshire Station, aged 57
- Sunday, 1st November 1908:
Keir Hardie MP visits Halifax
- Monday, 9th November 1908:
Councillor F. Whitley Thomson elected Mayor of
Halifax Alderman A. O. Stocks as Mayor of Brighouse
and Councillor Joseph Bracewell as Mayor of Todmorden
- Sunday, 29th November 1908:
Collapse of a portion of the wall surrounding the
Halifax Cricket Ground
- Friday, 4th December 1908:
Fire at motor works and underclothing factory in
Square Road, Halifax
- Sunday, 27th December 1908:
Heavily laden goods train leaves the metals at
Clarke Bridge, Halifax, with the result a portion of the parapet
was smashed and considerable damage caused to the property below
belonging to J. & J. Baldwin Limited
- Wednesday, 30th December 1908:
Death of talented linguist John Culpan, aged
25, of Ploughcroft House, Halifax
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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