Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1921
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Wednesday, 19th January 1921:
Clay House, West Vale, for sale by auction but
withdrawn at £1,950
- Thursday, 10th February 1921:
Roman Catholic Church opened at
Ovenden Cross
- Thursday, 10th February 1921:
Baby's mummified body found in Halifax railway
carriage
- Friday, 11th February 1921:
Halifax civic deputation leaves for Metz en Couture,
France
- Sunday, 20th February 1921:
Death of J. Whiteley Turner, author of
"Spring-time Saunter"
- Tuesday, 22nd February 1921:
King Cross Constitutional Club premises opened at
Highfield House
- Saturday, 5th March 1921:
Opening of George Mitchell Memorial Institute, Greetland
- Monday, 14th March 1921:
New premises of Halifax Permanent Building Society
opened in Commercial Street
- Thursday, 17th March 1921:
Annie Neath, a Halifax domestic, sentenced to death
for murdering her child
- Thursday, 17th March 1921:
Sir Edward Elgar at Queensbury
- Thursday, 24th March 1921:
Opening of Stainland tramway
- Friday, 1st April 1921:
National coal strike began
- Wednesday, 27th April 1921:
The Rt Hon J. H. Whitley of Halifax, elected Speaker
- Tuesday, 3rd May 1921:
Halifax Equitable Building Society opened new premises at
Elland
- Thursday, 5th May 1921:
Fire at Owler Ings Mill, Brighouse
- Saturday, 4th June 1921:
Knighthood for Mr Edward Nathan Whitley
- Tuesday, 7th June 1921:
Halifax war memorial designs selected
- Sunday, 3rd July 1921:
Visit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to a Spiritualist
meeting in Halifax
- Monday, 4th July 1921:
Miners strike ended
- Saturday, 9th July 1921:
Sir Robert Baden Powell inspects Halifax boy scouts and
girl guides
- Wednesday, 27th July 1921:
Fire at Woodvale Mills, Brighouse
- Saturday, 30th July 1921:
Halifax accountant killed in car smash at Ovenden
- Wednesday, 10th August 1921:
Halifax brother and sister suffocated in Scarborough
lodging house fire
- Friday, 12th August 1921:
Cragg Hall destroyed by fire
- Wednesday, 24th August 1921:
Airship R38 wrecked. Flight Sgt F. Smith of Halifax
killed
- Sunday, 28th August 1921:
Blackstone Edge speed trial tragedy. Mr
S. L. Fielding of Greetland, killed
- Saturday, 3rd September 1921:
First football match at The Shay
- Saturday, 10th September 1921:
Lindwell Methodist Church, Greetland, centenary
- Wednesday, 5th October 1921:
Child killed and another injured in motor accident at
New Bank, Halifax
- Friday, 7th October 1921:
Child killed by car at Ovenden
- Saturday, 15th October 1921:
Centenary at Bridge End Congregational Church,
Brighouse and Mill Bank Wesleyan Chapel
- Saturday, 5th November 1921:
Northowram recreation ground opened
- Saturday, 5th November 1921:
Opening of Friendly Bandroom
- Friday, 11th November 1921:
Cross of Remembrance erected at George Square,
Halifax, and covered with poppies
- Sunday, 13th November 1921:
Crack motor cyclist killed at Barkisland
- Saturday, 19th November 1921:
Fatal car crash at Cockhill
- Thursday, 8th December 1921:
Halifax Flour Society's cashier attacked and robbed
- Wednesday, 27th December 2028:
Heavy rain and floods
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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