LAST August John and Liedy Fearnley from Sydney in Australia were in Cleckheaton to visit the graves of ancestors who were parents to James Fearnley, a convict who was ‘transported’ for life to Tasmania.Read
AS we approach that time of year when those who gave their lives in war are remembered, this picture of a group of men at Huddersfield Polish Club, taken in the 1950s, has special significance.Read
HUDDERSFIELD, like many other English towns, was an attractive destination point for the Irish, and not just at the time of the Great Hunger (1845-52).Read
LEISURE in the Huddersfield landscape has been very much in the news lately with stories about British Waterways’ objections to swimming in Sparth Reservoir, Marsden, and the weekend official re-opening of Greenhead Park after a massive revamp.Read
OUR story last week of Cowlersley-born David Halstead and his textiles career in South Africa gave David Lee, originally from Crosland Moor, food for thought.Read
DAVID McGregor of Bradley spotted an Examiner Memory Lane photo of Fred Horner building a caravan in his back yard. at Holays, Dalton – and memory bells rang.Read
BY an odd coincidence, the name of famous rugby league player Harold Wagstaff has been thrust into the limelight not once but twice in recent weeks.Read
ELSEWHERE in the Examiner tonight we celebrate the contribution to Huddersfield’s civic life made by the guides, rangers and brownies of yesteryear.Read
BRITAIN might not have been a nation of shopkeepers, as Napoleon is supposed to have sneeringly suggested, but it was not short of hard-working small businessmen. Read
