Huddersfield Examiner - Nostalgia - Huddersfield Family History

Family History: Mystery deepens over old images of Huddersfield

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:00:00 GMT

THE mystery surrounding some old glass negative plates found in Huddersfield has deepened.

Family history: Millions of old names from the past

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT

PEOPLE searching for their family history can turn to the West Yorkshire Archive Service for help as it has millions of names on record.

Family History: Moving memories of Wainwright’s in Huddersfield from long ago

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

OUR recent Memory Lane photograph showing Wainwright’s removal company brought back some happy memories for Harry Evans from Deighton.

Family History: Country benches planned for Farnley Tyas

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

‘SOMETIMES I sits and thinks,’ the famous quotation goes, ‘ and sometimes I just sits.’

Family history: When the swimming champs hit town in 1960

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THERE’S something about Cambridge Road Baths that twangs the heart-strings of older Huddersfield residents.

Family History: Hope springs from wartime romance

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A WARTIME romance has set Swiss woman Alessandra Andaloro a puzzle that may now never be resolved.

Nostalgia: Grave case of bodies buried 40ft deep

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Huddersfield is struggling to find a site for a cemetery. About 160 years ago the borough had a similar problem, only worse. DAVID GRIFFITHS, a member of Huddersfield Local History Society, investigates.

Family history: What's in a name?

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

ONE of Britain’s foremost surnames experts lives in Huddersfield.

Family History: Dale Butler of Ohio finds Newsome ancestors

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

DALE Butler is 64 and lives in the town of Elyria, Ohio, USA.

Family History: Farnley Mill could be restored

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

AN iconic mill, long abandoned and neglected, may one day soon take its rightful place in Huddersfield’s industrial heritage.

Family history: December 21, 2011: Barry Smith rediscovers Brighouse broadcaster James Gregson

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

JAMES Gregson never really hit the headlines.

Family history: The Morton family make their mark

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:06:00 GMT

A CROSLAND Moor descendant of an illustrious Huddersfield town centre family is looking to flesh out the dynastic story.

Family history: Huddersfield cattle market butchers and farmers, from Sam Hinchliffe

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A PICTURE of Huddersfield Cattle Market in 1945, in our All Our Yesterdays feature on November 30, caught the eye of reader Sam Hinchliffe.

Family History: Huddersfield Local History Society booklets reissued

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

TWO popular local history booklets have been reissued by Huddersfield Local History Society, after several years out of print.

Family History: Australian finds family graves at Whitechapel Church Cleckheaton

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

ONE of the most persistent slurs of our time is that Australians of British ancestry are all descended from convicts.

Family History: November 30, 2011: Mary Kennedy (Mary Jones) and the Moldgreen Junior (School) Folk Choir reunion

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THERE must be hundreds of children and parents who have happy memories of singing and playing with the Moldgreen Junior (School) Folk Choir.

Family history: Memories of the Baker family, Scammonden, November 30, 2011

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THE Baker family lost their 32-acre farmstead when the Scammonden Dam project got underway in 1966.

Family History: Aussie family's link to Huddersfield

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A MAN who damaged a fox cover (whatever that might be) and stole a bag or two of wheat, some hens and a cock would probably be subjected to a magistrate’s most severe frown and a conditional discharge these days.

Family history: Detective stories

Huddersfield Examiner — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A DETECTIVE story that may have no end is being conducted by Janice Phelps of Liversedge, and the picture above is evidence of how complicated things can get.

Family history: Clouds of war over Linthwaite

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

GEOFFREY Darby, who in this column last week recalled his time building home defences at Blackmoorfoot reservoir, set one nostalgic Linfitter thinking about his own memories of local defences against potential German bombing raids.