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Mills of the Holme Valley | Underground Histories
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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Mills of the Holme Valley. BRIDGE MILL – HOLMFIRTH. Bridge Mill, Holmfirth’s oldest remaining mill, which survived fire and flood in the nineteenth century, has disappeared to make way for a supermarket. Another one bites the dust! In 1857 Broadbent’s premises almost burnt down. On 6 June there were two fires on the same day! In 1865 when Joseph Turner built a new warehouse at the opposite side of the road to the main mills, it was described as, ‘the mos...
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Huddersfield Hall of Science | Underground Histories
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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Huddersfield Hall of Science. Hall of Science, Bath Street, Huddersfield, built in 1839 as a meeting place for Owenite Socialists. This attempt to describe the development of Owenism in one locality is a contribution to a clearer understanding of a vital aspect of working class history. It also poses a question about the future. Is Socialism merely about changing the economic system or is it an ideology of wider moral and cultural liberation? They propos...
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‘WE ARE WEARY OF SLAVERY’ | Underground Histories
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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. 8216;WE ARE WEARY OF SLAVERY’. Another Chapter in the History of Huddersfield Radicalism. Economic Distress and the Revival of Radicalism in the Huddersfield Area 1826-1830. Bank Crash and Austerity 1826-1829. Throughout the years of depression, trade nevertheless continued with the continent, one Huddersfield merchant, William Willans dealing with Hanover, Leipsic, Frankfurt, Turin, Berlin, Oporto, Brussels and Paris in the years 1825-30. [4]. A veiled ...
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Mills Of the Colne Valley | Underground Histories
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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Mills Of the Colne Valley. The Old Corn Mill/ Colne Mill Slaithwaite. The fire at Colne Mill in Slaithwaite on 1 August will probably mark the end of textile manufacture, or indeed any industrial activity on one of the oldest mill sites in the Colne Valley. In fact Colne Mill is a corruption of Corn Mill and the site was known in the 19. The Old Corn Mill, Slaithwaite, 1982 (Brooke Collection). Joseph Hirst was a former handloom weaver and putter out who...
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Herne Bay – ephemera
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ɪˈfɛmərə/] noun : things that exist for only a short time. Undated photo postcard by photographer Scrivens of High Street, Herne Bay. Leave a comment on ephemera #72. All images posted on this blog are assumed to be in the Public Domain due to their age. They have been digitised specifically for this blog and you are free to make use of anything you find here in any way you wish. If you would like a high-resolution version of any image, please get in touch. A and G. Taylor (Leeds). Gale's Studios Ltd.
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seated – ephemera
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ɪˈfɛmərə/] noun : things that exist for only a short time. Undated damaged group photo postcard by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #71. Photo postcard by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #69. Undated group photo postcard by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #68. Undated photo postcard of three women by photographer C. Iredale of 25 Lower Mosley Street, Manchester. Leave a comment on ephemera #67. Facing away from camera. Gale's Studios Ltd.
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adult women – ephemera
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ɪˈfɛmərə/] noun : things that exist for only a short time. Undated photo postcard of a woman in a hammock by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #73. Undated photo postcard by photographer Scrivens of High Street, Herne Bay. Leave a comment on ephemera #72. Undated damaged group photo postcard by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #71. Undated photo postcard (likely a mother and daughter) by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #70.
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standing – ephemera
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ɪˈfɛmərə/] noun : things that exist for only a short time. Undated photo postcard by photographer Scrivens of High Street, Herne Bay. Leave a comment on ephemera #72. Undated damaged group photo postcard by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #71. Undated photo postcard (likely a mother and daughter) by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #70. Undated group photo postcard by an unknown photographer. Leave a comment on ephemera #68. Leave a comment on ephemera #66.
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Events/Talks/Meetings | Underground Histories
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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. CLUB, BANKWELL RD, MILNSBRIDGE. Thursday 3 July 2014 7.30pm. A Talk by Local Radical Historian and Amateur Naturalist Alan Brooke on :. Naturalist Societies in the Colne Valley. Hudds Ludds on Neo-Luddism at the ‘Breaking the Frame’ Gathering. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Patriotism and pacifism: Valley radicals resist the call for war! Will look at the intense anti-war debate before World War War I in Huddersfield and surrounding valleys. Or Richard Mu...
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The Architecture of Huddersfield | Underground Histories
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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. The Architecture of Huddersfield. ST GEORGE’S SQUARE AND THE LAMP OF MEMORY. Shining a little Neo-Ruskinite light on a part of Huddersfield . St George’s Square – Lion Arcade with Britannia Buildings to the right of picture. May Day demonstration, St George’s Square, 1907. Every stranger who alights from the railway must be filled with amazement that so much money could have been expended and so ineffective a result obtained’. Britannia Ruskin, in his fa...
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