Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1929
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Wednesday, 2nd January 1929:
Goods train broke in two at Hebden Bridge
- Saturday, 19th January 1929:
Retirement of Mr G. Marchetti, chairman of John
Crossley & Sons Limited
- Monday, 21st January 1929:
Bus crash in fog at Mount Tabor
- Monday, 28th January 1929:
Mr J. H. Whitley appointed chairman of the Indian
Labour Royal Commission
- Thursday, 31st January 1929:
Arrival of Halifax's new ambulance
- Monday, 4th February 1929:
Halifax Loyal Georgeans' 150th anniversary
- Wednesday, 6th February 1929:
Ministry of Transport inquiry into Halifax road
widening scheme
- Friday, 8th February 1929:
Mytholmroyd gasometer collapsed
- Monday, 4th March 1929:
Licensing magistrates refused to approve new premises for
the Big Six Inn, Skircoat Moor (Bowling Green Inn)
- Monday, 11th March 1929:
Death of Miss Anne Lister of Shibden Hall
- Wednesday, 13th March 1929:
Bus deal with County Council limiting operations to 13
mile radius of the town hall
- Tuesday, 19th March 1929:
Chapel Field Mill, Ripponden, destroyed by fire
- Saturday, 30th March 1929:
Joint control of Halifax buses with LMS announced
- Saturday, 30th March 1929:
Bailiff Bridge tramway sold to Bradford for £7,500
- Thursday, 25th April 1929:
Bailiff Bridge railway station gutted by fire
- Saturday, 27th April 1929:
New parochial hall opened at Elland
- Thursday, 2nd May 1929:
Hebble bus services sold to LMS and LNE Railway companies
- Thursday, 16th May 1929:
Textile dispute started in the Calder Valley
- Sunday, 26th May 1929:
Waterworks Committee visit to Gorple
- Wednesday, 29th May 1929:
General Election
- Saturday, 8th June 1929:
Councillor W. D. Miller of Brighouse took part in motor
boat race across the English Channel
- Sunday, 16th June 1929:
Death of General Bramwell Booth
- Tuesday, 25th June 1929:
Death of Mr Richard Pickering, Carlton Street, Halifax,
a well known horse breaker
- Friday, 5th July 1929:
Alderman Longbottom's first aerial flight from Croydon
to Doncaster
- Saturday, 6th July 1929:
Rishworth branch line closed
- Thursday, 18th July 1929:
Portrait of Mr J. H. Whitley unveiled at Westminster
- Saturday, 20th July 1929:
Water restrictions imposed due to drought
- Tuesday, 23rd July 1929:
Halifax Town AFC annual meeting told of debt of
£7,455
- Saturday, 3rd August 1929:
Royal Humane Society awards for heroism at Sowerby
Bridge granted to William T. Gray, James Firth and Albert Heaton
- Tuesday, 3rd September 1929:
Caravan of Mr Hamilton Deane, the actor, destroyed
at Ogden
- Friday, 6th September 1929:
Co-op manager stabbed at Brighouse
- Wednesday, 11th September 1929:
New clock started at Halifax
Institutional (later St John's Hospital), Gibbet Street
- Saturday, 21st September 1929:
Highroad Well church centenary
- Sunday, 22nd September 1929:
Covent Garden Opera Company at Theatre
Royal
- Tuesday, 22nd October 1929:
Halifax drapers deplored the increase of multiple shops
- Wednesday, 30th October 1929:
New Halifax nurses home opened by Lady Savile
- Wednesday, 30th October 1929:
Public meeting at the Shay to consider Halifax
Town's position
- Monday, 4th November 1929:
Chairman of Halifax Town resigned, followed by
two other directors the next day
- Sunday, 10th November 1929:
Memorial gate at Crow Wood Park, Sowerby Bridge,
unveiled
- Thursday, 14th November 1929:
Drought restrictions lifted after 17 weeks
- Monday, 2nd December 1929:
Death of Mr T. F. Riley, Ewood Hall, Mytholmroyd,
Lord of the Manor of Midgley
- Tuesday, 10th December 1929:
Wyke boot repairer sent to prison for 12 months at
Leeds Assizes for attack on Brighouse Co-op manager
- Friday, 20th December 1929:
Eight new directors of Halifax Town elected
- Saturday, 28th December 1929:
Last Christmas treat for Halifax war orphans
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Branch Line Closed – End of the line – Rishworth
station in the Ryburn Valley
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Busy Bus Terminus – In 1928 Halifax's Independent bus company,
Hebble, operated from Ward's End on the site of the present
ABC Cinema
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New Motor Ambulance – Picture shows: Div Supt Rawson, Corps Officer
Chambers, Supt Auty; Mr J. H. Helliwell; Mr T. Redman. Coun E
Midgley; the mayor of Halifax, Ald J. Law; Officer Lees and Officer
Woodward
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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