THE mystery of old images of Huddersfield – featured in this column last week – has been solved.

Or, at least, part solved.

We queried the history of old drawings on glass negative plates found by Paul Dickinson.

He had them copied and it turns out the images were drawings of old Huddersfield.

Now it transpires the plates were made in the Huddersfield Examiner’s old engraving department by workmates George Worthington and Gordon Taylor.

They copied them from a book of prints to test out new engraving techniques using acid.

George, of Taylor Hill, said: “The new engraving process came in about 1951 and we were trying out the techniques.

“Someone had brought a book of old drawings into the Examiner office in Ramsden Street and we were asked to make plates of some of the illustrations.

“I remember we got a telling off from our boss Wilf Dickinson – Paul’s grandfather – because we had not copied every line and mark on stonework on the drawings.”