Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1920
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Saturday, 3rd January 1920:
Serious explosion of gas meters at Queensbury
- Monday, 5th January 1920:
Ratepayers meeting turned down proposal for trams to
run on Southgate, Halifax
- Saturday, 10th January 1920:
Proposals for extension of Halifax Borough boundaries
dropped
- Sunday, 11th January 1920:
Coley Parish Church war memorial unveiled
- Tuesday, 20th January 1920:
Sale of the Greetland explosives
factory
- Wednesday, 21st January 1920:
Firm fined £50 in Halifax for the employment of
women contrary to the Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act
- Tuesday, 27th January 1920:
Death of John Mackintosh. His funeral was held
on January 30
- Tuesday, 10th February 1920:
Flood havoc in the Calder Valley. Roads closed and
furniture washed out of houses
- Thursday, 19th February 1920:
Part of William Edleston's mill, Sowerby
Bridge, gutted by fire
- Tuesday, 24th February 1920:
Freedom of Todmorden conferred on Alderman
R. Jackson and Mrs Jackson, the Mayor and Mayoress for eight
years
- Monday, 1st March 1920:
Explosion at Brighouse & Lightcliffe Steam Laundry. The
proprietor, Mr Kendall, killed
- Friday, 5th March 1920:
Crow Wood military hospital, Sowerby Bridge, closed
- Friday, 5th March 1920:
Mrs Kathleen Nuttall received an award from the
Carnegie Hero Trust for bravery in a Holmfield fire
- Sunday, 14th March 1920:
The Rev J. Wesley Hall preached on "The grave dangers
of Commercial Street"
- Monday, 15th March 1920:
Triplets born to Mrs Haley of Thomas Street,
Halifax
- Tuesday, 30th March 1920:
Publication of T. W. Hanson's The Story of Old
Halifax
- Friday, 30th April 1920:
Halifax & District Farmers' Association decided that
the price of milk in Halifax should be 10d a quart
- Saturday, 1st May 1920:
The Rt Hon J. H. Whitley MP offered Spring Hall
mansion as a guest house for young men
- Sunday, 9th May 1920:
Demonstration at Savile Park against the price of milk
supplied by the Farmers' Association
- Saturday, 15th May 1920:
Dispute of the works of the Campbell Gas Engine Company
- Saturday, 15th May 1920:
Unveiling of wayside war memorial at Triangle
- Monday, 17th May 1920:
Citizens Committee of Farmers' Association meeting
at the Saddle Hotel, Halifax, to discuss the price of milk
- Tuesday, 18th May 1920:
Her Royal Highness Princess Helena Victoria opened
the Boys' Red Triangle Hut, Commercial Street, Halifax
- Thursday, 3rd June 1920:
End of strike by employees of Halifax Industrial Society
over union recognition. A similar dispute at Sowerby Bridge
Industrial Society was settled on June 13
- Thursday, 24th June 1920:
Halifax Parish Church celebrated its eighth century
- Friday, 2nd July 1920:
Rents of new council homes fixed at 12s a week, exclusive
of rates
- Saturday, 17th July 1920:
War cross unveiled at Norland
- Saturday, 31st July 1920:
Opening of the Smith orphan homes at Brighouse
- Wednesday, 4th August 1920:
Council agrees to lease the Shay estate to Halifax
Town AFC
- Saturday, 11th September 1920:
Meeting of Irish Self-Determination League attended
by 2,000 people
- Monday, 20th September 1920:
Private Marshall Whitehead of Hope Street,
Halifax, shot by Sinn Fein in Dublin
- Saturday, 25th September 1920:
Elland Congregational Church centenary
- Thursday, 7th October 1920:
Serious fire at Booth Wood Paper Mills, Ryburn Valley
- Thursday, 7th October 1920:
Opening of Southowram branch library
- Tuesday, 12th October 1920:
Bishop Frodsham of Gloucester Cathedral to be Vicar
of Halifax
- Wednesday, 13th October 1920:
New Roman Catholic church at Pye Nest
dedicated
- Wednesday, 20th October 1920:
As a result of the coal strike it was decided to
suspend the Sunday tram service
- Saturday, 30th October 1920:
Five killed and four seriously injured in a charabanc
accident at Cockhill
- Monday, 1st November 1920:
Member of Sinn Fein hanged in Dublin for the murder of
Private Whitehead of Halifax
- Tuesday, 9th November 1920:
First Labour mayors elected at Brighouse
and Todmorden
- Friday, 3rd December 1920:
Two trams blown over at Queensbury
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Trams blown over in fierce gales
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Calder Floods Cause Havoc – two pictures showing flooded area in
Mytholmroyd centre
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Triangle Memorial – for those who lost their lives in the
great war
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Death of John Mackintosh – The funeral cortege approaching All
Saints' graveyard
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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