Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1922
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Sunday, 1st January 1922:
Motor tragedy at Scammonden
- Monday, 2nd January 1922:
Knighthood for Mr Harold V. Mackintosh of Acre Mead,
Halifax
- Wednesday, 4th January 1922:
Halifax Rotary Club formed
- Monday, 9th January 1922:
Fire at Callis Mill, Hebden Bridge
- Wednesday, 14th January 2015:
Heavy snowfalls throughout the district
- Tuesday, 17th January 1922:
Mother and daughter fatally gassed at
Back Crib Lane, Halifax
- Tuesday, 31st January 1922:
West Vale couple fatally gassed
- Wednesday, 1st February 1922:
Price of milk reduced to 7d a quart
- Friday, 3rd February 1922:
Baby's mutilated body found in Trinity Road, Halifax
- Monday, 6th February 1922:
Railway smash in Summit Tunnel, Todmorden
- Tuesday, 7th February 1922:
Croft Mill, Hebden Bridge, gutted in £20,000
blaze
- Sunday, 12th February 1922:
Baby drowned by mother at Sowerby Bridge
- Wednesday, 15th February 1922:
Price of gas in Brighouse to be reduced
- Monday, 27th February 1922:
Death of Mr G. H. Gledhill, Halifax, cash
till manufacturer
- Tuesday, 21st March 1922:
Halifax Corporation Bill approved by parliament for the
construction of Gorple reservoirs. Work to start within 5 years and
be completed within 15 years
- Saturday, 1st April 1922:
Blackstone Edge reservoirs sold to Oldham and Rochdale
for £400,000
- Sunday, 21st May 1922:
Copley war memorial unveiled
- Tuesday, 20th June 1922:
Range Bank, Halifax, motor smash, two children killed
- Wednesday, 28th June 1922:
Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church, Halifax, centenary
Announcement that Mr J. W. Standeven of Skipton, a former
choirmaster, will meet the cost of a new church, fully equipped, and
a new organ
- Saturday, 1st July 1922:
One man killed and two injured in sewer collapse at
Holmfield, Halifax
- Saturday, 1st July 1922:
Victory fields opened at Stainland
- Sunday, 2nd July 1922:
Mytholmroyd war memorial unveiled
- Monday, 7th August 1922:
Flooding at Mytholmroyd following exceptional rainfall
- Friday, 11th August 1922:
"Courier & Guardian" printers strike. The dispute
lasted a week but the newspaper continued publication
- Saturday, 12th August 1922:
Revealed that Norland Hall is to be demolished and
transferred to America
- Tuesday, 5th September 1922:
Baby killed by taxi at Ripponden
- Wednesday, 6th September 1922:
Boy killed in accident at King Cross
- Friday, 8th September 1922:
First consignment of Norland Hall shipped to America
- Friday, 22nd September 1922:
Hebden Bridge band third in Crystal Palace contest
Black Dyke unplaced
- Tuesday, 26th September 1922:
Northowram boy killed by lorry
- Saturday, 7th October 1922:
New Hipperholme and Lightcliffe Conservative Club
opened. First local political club to admit both sexes
- Sunday, 15th October 1922:
Halifax Cenotaph unveiled by Sir George
Fisher-Smith
- Monday, 16th October 1922:
Railway crash at Sowerby Bridge
- Thursday, 9th November 1922:
Councillor A. W. Longbottom elected first Labour
mayor of Halifax
- Thursday, 23rd November 1922:
Death of Alderman R. Jackson, eight times mayor of
Todmorden
- Thursday, 7th December 1922:
Economic Stores, Halifax, won appeal against the
Corporation concerning a missing pig
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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