Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout
Halifax Evening Courier
Calendar of Events
1931
Kathy Witheridge has kindly transcribed
the Calendar of Events from the Millennium
Souvenir published by the Evening Courier
- Sunday, 4th January 1931:
Death in London of Mr Giulio Marchetti, formerly of
Manor Heath, Halifax, and for 50 years a director of John Crossley
and Sons, Dean Clough
- Tuesday, 6th January 1931:
Halifax's Northgate robot inaugurated
- Monday, 19th January 1931:
Foundation stone laid of new Catholic church at
Queensbury
- Wednesday, 28th January 1931:
Northowram Hall proposed as a hospital site;
Ministry of Health inquiry
- Tuesday, 3rd February 1931:
Police action against Halifax Borough Club and King
Cross Constitutional Club for the unlawful consumption of liquor
- Wednesday, 4th February 1931:
Smallpox epidemic at Queensbury
- Monday, 9th February 1931:
Stainland Council report of serious unemployment in
the village
- Monday, 9th February 1931:
Barkisland gambling raid; police prosecutions
- Tuesday, 17th February 1931:
Death of Mr Septimus Lewin, aged 80
- Thursday, 26th February 1931:
Balloon dropped into Boothwood Reservoir, Rishworth
- Monday, 2nd March 1931:
Licence granted to the new Alexandra Café,
Halifax
- Wednesday, 11th March 1931:
New Alexandra Theatre opened by the Mayor
- Thursday, 12th March 1931:
Death of Halifax gunsmith Mr A. J. Jewson of Savile
Parade, Halifax
- Friday, 27th March 1931:
Mr Joe Bray, of Bowman Terrace, Halifax, won
£1,281 in Irish Hospitals Sweepstake
- Thursday, 2nd April 1931:
Midgley pace egg play broadcast from Leeds
- Wednesday, 8th April 1931:
Gift of drinking fountain to Luddenden Foot by
Mr Bernard Clay
- Tuesday, 28th April 1931:
Death of Mr H. P. Jackson, the well known
Northowram woodcarver
- Wednesday, 6th May 1931:
Last tram left Brighouse
- Saturday, 9th May 1931:
Celebrations to mark coming of age of Sowerby Bridge
Secondary School
- Tuesday, 9th June 1931:
Robert C. Bowers, of Church Street, Halifax, drowned
when the submarine Poseidon sunk in Chinese waters
- Saturday, 13th June 1931:
Decision to close Shibden United Methodist Church
- Saturday, 4th July 1931:
Halifax Workshop for the Blind extensions started
- Saturday, 4th July 1931:
Lloyd George at Conservative demonstration, Manor Heath,
Halifax
- Tuesday, 28th July 1931:
Death at Clough House, Sowerby, of Mr Wilkinson
Pickles, founder of Halifax Steam Laundry
- Thursday, 30th July 1931:
Opening of new Royal Oak Hotel, Halifax
- Monday, 3rd August 1931:
Halifax Police motor patrol started duty
- Wednesday, 2nd September 1931:
Elland woman's death from anthrax
- Monday, 21st September 1931:
Double deck bus overturned at Bailiff Bridge
injuring 12 people
- Wednesday, 30th September 1931:
Cross Keys Inn, King Cross Street, Halifax,
closed
- Sunday, 18th October 1931:
Aviator Amy Johnson at the Victoria Hall
- Tuesday, 20th October 1931:
Airwoman the Hon Mrs Bruce at YMCA open week
- Wednesday, 21st October 1931:
Halifax Publicity Week exhibition ends, 43,958
visitors
- Saturday, 24th October 1931:
Elland Museum opened
- Sunday, 25th October 1931:
Body of Halifax man missing for two years, found on
Cockhill Moor
- Monday, 9th November 1931:
Alderman Rufus Stirk elected Mayor of Halifax
- Wednesday, 11th November 1931:
George Street, Halifax, widening scheme deferred
for at least five years as an economy measure by the council
- Tuesday, 17th November 1931:
Three Halifax men fined following a demonstration by
the unemployed on November 6
- Wednesday, 18th November 1931:
The Bishop of Leeds opened the new Roman Catholic
Church at Queensbury
- Monday, 30th November 1931:
Yorkshire and England cricketer Herbert
Sutcliffe at Halifax and District Amateur Cricket Association
prizegiving
- Saturday, 12th December 1931:
Mayor's appeal for the Bentley Colliery
Disaster Fund closed at £1,000
This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir
contains the following photographs
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Rugby League Cup Comes Home – The Cup Final victory was celebrated
throughout the district. In this picture the trophy is being paraded
through Ripponden by the local brass band
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Cup Final action. A York attacker meets a stern Halifax defence
including Ernest Norcliffe (left) and Albert Atkinson
(right)
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Station Closed – On July 18, 1931, Copley rail station closed, one
in a long line of local stations to be made redundant since the turn
of the century
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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