Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1926
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Tuesday, 5th January 1926:
Death of James Tilley, of Osborne Grove, Lightcliffe,
aged 86, the oldest commercial traveller in England
- Monday, 18th January 1926:
Railway guard killed at Mytholmroyd
- Wednesday, 20th January 1926:
Halifax Quarter Sessions lasted two days
- Monday, 1st February 1926:
Ratepayers' vote against widening of George
Street and development of Bull Green, Halifax
- Thursday, 4th February 1926:
The Mayor of Halifax called for the
enlargement of the Town Hall or the building of a new one
- Saturday, 27th February 1926:
Ministry of Health approved the demolition of the
Cross Fields area of Halifax
- Tuesday, 2nd March 1926:
General Bramwell Booth presented with a silver casket
after being elected a Freeman of Halifax
- Wednesday, 10th March 1926:
Barkisland bus destroyed by fire
- Sunday, 21st March 1926:
Dean Head Church school, Barkisland, destroyed by fire
- Monday, 29th March 1926:
Final meeting of Sowerby Bridge District Council.
Portraits of members unveiled
- Saturday, 3rd April 1926:
Boy killed by motor bus at Hebden Bridge
- Thursday, 8th April 1926:
Mayoress of Halifax and friends in car smash near
Tadcaster.
One of her friends was killed
- Saturday, 10th April 1926:
New Middle School opened in Hebden Bridge
- Saturday, 17th April 1926:
Halifax Rugby Union Club won the Yorkshire Cup by
beating Otley
- Sunday, 18th April 1926:
Child killed by car at Lightcliffe
- Saturday, 24th April 1926:
Unveiling of new clock and chimes at St Mark's
Church, Siddal, Halifax
- Friday, 14th May 1926:
Three Halifax tram men sentenced to one month's
imprisonment for assault on a bus driver.
On appeal, one of them was acquitted and the other two had their
sentences reduced
- Saturday, 19th June 1926:
Auction mart opened at Victoria Cattle Market, Hanson
Lane, Halifax
- Sunday, 20th June 1926:
War memorial unveiled at St Anne's
Church, Southowram
- Thursday, 24th June 1926:
Driver burned to death in a blazing motor lorry at
Brighouse
- Tuesday, 29th June 1926:
Thirteen clay miners fined £1 each for intimidation
at Siddal
- Thursday, 8th July 1926:
Gordon Highlanders' Band in People's Park, Halifax
- Wednesday, 21st July 1926:
Invitation to hold Yorkshire Agricultural Show in
Halifax in 1928 accepted
- Wednesday, 4th August 1926:
Certificate of the Society for the Protection of Fire
and £2 2/- presented to Arnold Birtwhistle for heroism at a
local fire
- Tuesday, 10th August 1926:
Improvised motor bus wrecked at Brearley by colliding
with a tram.
Eleven passengers on their way to Blackpool were injured, one of them
died three days later
- Monday, 16th August 1926:
Runaway railway coaches at Watsons' Crossing,
Triangle, ended in a big smash but no injuries
- Saturday, 21st August 1926:
Death of Mr W. E. Denison (60), chairman of the
Halifax Courier Limited, who during his life raised £60,000 for
charitable and public purposes
- Saturday, 21st August 1926:
Bus service to Rochdale started
- Saturday, 28th August 1926:
Mount Tabor recreation ground opened
- Tuesday, 28th September 1926:
Brighouse Open Air School opened
- Thursday, 30th September 1926:
Greetland, Stainland, part of Barkisland, and Upper
Greetland decide to combine
- Thursday, 30th September 1926:
Opening of branch library at Skircoat Green
- Saturday, 2nd October 1926:
Jubilee of Hanover United Methodist Church, Halifax
- Saturday, 9th October 1926:
Tree planting at Crimsworth Dene in memory of Mr
Samuel Fielding, of Mytholmroyd
- Friday, 15th October 1926:
Opening of Shibden Park by the Prince of
Wales
- Friday, 22nd October 1926:
Tree planted at Shibden Park by the Prince of
Wales cut down by vandals
- Saturday, 23rd October 1926:
West Vale shooting tragedy
- Monday, 8th November 1926:
Wireless installed at St Luke's Hospital, Halifax
- Saturday, 13th November 1926:
New library opened at Ellen Royde, Elland
- Tuesday, 23rd November 1926:
Halifax health offices transferred to Powell Street
- Thursday, 25th November 1926:
Corner stones laid of new Abattoir at
Woolshops, Halifax
- Friday, 26th November 1926:
Coal strike ends
- Wednesday, 1st December 1926:
Shaw Mill, Mixenden, gutted in £20,000 fire
- Thursday, 2nd December 1926:
Lord Lascelles opened new premises of the
Savile Lodge of Freemasons, West Vale
- Thursday, 16th December 1926:
Ministry of Transport inquiry into Halifax
Corporation's application to borrow £22,634 to buy property in
Silver Street, George Street and Black Swan Passage for the proposed
widening of George Street
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Halifax's Royal Guest
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HRH The Prince of Wales
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A fine spectacle greeted the Prince in Crossley Street
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The highly decorated weaving room at Standeven and Company Limited,
Old Lane, which the Prince visited
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Hundreds of people turned out in July to listen to the Gordon
Highlanders Band at People's Park, Halifax
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The Changing Face of Halifax – Farewell to 'the City' and its
ginnels
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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