Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1928
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Saturday, 7th January 1928:
Wife of Hebden Bridge stationmaster killed by motor
car
- Thursday, 12th January 1928:
River Calder overflowed at Mytholmroyd
- Saturday, 14th January 1928:
Mr Ernest Bevan, transport workers' leader, in
Halifax
- Saturday, 21st January 1928:
Case against Professor Morritt, hypnotist, collapsed
at Halifax Quarter Sessions when the prosecution withdrew charges of
false pretences
- Thursday, 2nd February 1928:
Todmorden Brewster Sessions agreed to extend licensing
hours in the town by half an hour to 10:30 pm
- Saturday, 4th February 1928:
New home for nurses opened at Sowerby Bridge
- Sunday, 5th February 1928:
Flooding at Mytholmroyd
- Monday, 6th February 1928:
Halifax bus service to Rochdale withdrawn
- Thursday, 16th February 1928:
Police sergeant killed at Brighouse by
wheel which had become detached from a motor
- Saturday, 10th March 1928:
Severe snowstorm
- Wednesday, 14th March 1928:
Smallpox cases discovered at St Luke's
Hospital
- Wednesday, 21st March 1928:
Fire at Fairlea cotton mill, Luddenden Foot
- Saturday, 24th March 1928:
Copley verger killed by motor. Later the
driver was fined £10
- Thursday, 29th March 1928:
New Halifax Labour Exchange opened
- Tuesday, 3rd April 1928:
Halifax man prosecuted at Borough Court for
marrying his niece
- Saturday, 14th April 1928:
Failed attempt on world bell-ringing record at
Heptonstall
- Saturday, 14th April 1928:
Workmen killed at Gorpley reservoir construction site
- Wednesday, 18th April 1928:
Licence of the Cat i' th' Window, Halifax, transferred
to the proposed new Shay Hotel
- Wednesday, 25th April 1928:
Coun Mrs Miriam Lightowler appointed first lady
chairman of Halifax Guardians
- Thursday, 26th April 1928:
Halifax RUFC beat Otley 11-0 to win the Yorkshire Cup
- Wednesday, 2nd May 1928:
Gardens Guild formed in Halifax
- Monday, 14th May 1928:
Halifax Building Society opened its first branch in
Scotland at Glasgow
- Monday, 21st May 1928:
Halifax Rugby League Club profit of £713
- Wednesday, 23rd May 1928:
Trout weighing 5lb 4oz caught in Hanson Lane reservoir,
Halifax
- Saturday, 2nd June 1928:
Mr J. H. Whitley announced his retirement from Parliament
- Monday, 4th June 1928:
Three Halifax inns referred for closure – the Bacchus
Tavern, the King of Belgium and the Waterhouse Arms
- Wednesday, 6th June 1928:
Floods in Halifax and district; serious damage at Sowerby
Bridge
- Saturday, 23rd June 1928:
Mission hut opened at Gorple
- Monday, 25th June 1928:
Mr J. H. Whitley declined a peerage
- Wednesday, 27th June 1928:
Mr Whitley's pension fixed by Parliament at £4,000
a year
- Saturday, 7th July 1928:
Luddenden Dean Wesleyan Church centenary
- Friday, 13th July 1928:
Disastrous fire at Thornber Brothers, poultry
appliances, Mytholmroyd
- Wednesday, 18th July 1928:
Yorkshire Show in Halifax; total attendance 82,477;
record attendance on second day of 52,003
- Thursday, 2nd August 1928:
Mr J. H. Whitley married at Chelsea Old Church
- Tuesday, 7th August 1928:
Triangle man killed by bus
- Saturday, 11th August 1928:
Purchase of Campbell's gas engine company by a London
firm
- Saturday, 29th September 1928:
Jubilee of the consecration of St John's Church,
Warley
- Wednesday, 3rd October 1928:
Queen's Hotel, Swine Market, Halifax, sold by auction
for £4,700 and the Withins Hotel, Ogden, for £725
- Thursday, 4th October 1928:
Plans for the Alexandra Hall, Halifax, approved
- Saturday, 6th October 1928:
Ballot over the future of Bull Green, Halifax, in
favour of retaining it as an open space
- Thursday, 11th October 1928:
Profit of over £5,000 on the Yorkshire Show
held in Halifax in July
- Wednesday, 24th October 1928:
Redman Path Lab and open air wards opened at Halifax
Infirmary
- Wednesday, 21st November 1928:
Sir Enoch Hill appointed president of the Halifax
Building Society
- Saturday, 8th December 1928:
Opening of rebuilt Luddenden National School
- Wednesday, 12th December 1928:
Fire at Central Street Council School, Hebden Bridge
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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