Huddersfield Exposed
@huddersfield.exposed
Exploring the history of the Huddersfield (UK) area. Account run by Dave (Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield).
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It's our big booklet giveaway on Saturday at our research room from 11.00 - 4.00. This is a one-off event as we move towards digital downloads. We have hundreds of booklets to give away, a simple way to see family baptisms, marriages and burials grouped in alpha order. #familyhistory #localhistory
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
It's our big booklet giveaway on Saturday at our research room from 11.00 - 4.00. This is a one-off event as we move towards digital downloads. We have hundreds of booklets to give away, a simple way to see family baptisms, marriages and burials grouped in alpha order. #familyhistory #localhistory
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How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
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I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
Great to see an article about Bradford's 1 in 12 Club in the national press 🍺
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘Fascists threatened us but we always took them on’: the anarchic Bradford club still fighting after 45 years
A new book and podcast tell the story of a 1 in 12, a venue that used community and artistic passion as bulwarks against poverty and grim politics. Its founders and key acts recall gigs, plays and pra...
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Great to see an article about Bradford's 1 in 12 Club in the national press 🍺
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Just accidentally stabbed myself with a drawing pin whilst putting up a new list of first aiders on a notice board at work 🤕
January 26, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Just accidentally stabbed myself with a drawing pin whilst putting up a new list of first aiders on a notice board at work 🤕
Tindall's 1866 Huddersfield Directory is now available to read online! Worth browsing if only for the adverts 😀
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A huge "thank you" to @huddsfhs.bsky.social and Ian Stevenson in particular (who allowed his copy of this rare book to be scanned).
huddersfield.exposed/s/17900
A huge "thank you" to @huddsfhs.bsky.social and Ian Stevenson in particular (who allowed his copy of this rare book to be scanned).
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Tindall's 1866 Huddersfield Directory is now available to read online! Worth browsing if only for the adverts 😀
huddersfield.exposed/s/17900
A huge "thank you" to @huddsfhs.bsky.social and Ian Stevenson in particular (who allowed his copy of this rare book to be scanned).
huddersfield.exposed/s/17900
A huge "thank you" to @huddsfhs.bsky.social and Ian Stevenson in particular (who allowed his copy of this rare book to be scanned).
No idea what's going on at Contabo, unless their infrastructure has been well and truly hacked, but they've made the naughty list today and I've blocked the entire the entire 51167 range. Sorry if they're targeting your servers now (if so, see alt text for the bot IP ranges!)
ipinfo.io/AS51167
ipinfo.io/AS51167
January 23, 2026 at 4:58 PM
No idea what's going on at Contabo, unless their infrastructure has been well and truly hacked, but they've made the naughty list today and I've blocked the entire the entire 51167 range. Sorry if they're targeting your servers now (if so, see alt text for the bot IP ranges!)
ipinfo.io/AS51167
ipinfo.io/AS51167
I've you've never been to Heritage Quay, get yourself down there! heritagequay.org
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Huddersfield University Heritage Quay last week – where I got to see the wonderful Women in Rugby League exhibition put together by Julia Lee.
The archives are open Monday – Friday 9-5pm for the general public, and are definitely worth a visit!
The archives are open Monday – Friday 9-5pm for the general public, and are definitely worth a visit!
January 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
I've you've never been to Heritage Quay, get yourself down there! heritagequay.org
Dr. George Brown was apparently the first person to grow sweetcorn in Huddersfield in the mid-1970s. Struggling to find when and where he died tho.
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Dr. George Brown was apparently the first person to grow sweetcorn in Huddersfield in the mid-1970s. Struggling to find when and where he died tho.
A fascinating article about Paul Robeson, who performed in Huddersfield several times over the decades.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
A fascinating article about Paul Robeson, who performed in Huddersfield several times over the decades.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Be sure to give @huddersfieldhistory.org.uk a warm welcome and a follow 🙂 it won't be too long before they're celebrating their 50th birthday!!
January 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Be sure to give @huddersfieldhistory.org.uk a warm welcome and a follow 🙂 it won't be too long before they're celebrating their 50th birthday!!
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Our first talk of the season, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN'S THRICE CHAMPIONS: 100 YEARS ON revisits the glory years of Huddersfield Town FC in the 1920s.
Monday 26 January, Oastler building, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm. All welcome - more details here: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/hudder...
Monday 26 January, Oastler building, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm. All welcome - more details here: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/hudder...
Huddersfield Town’s Thrice Champions: 100 Years On – Huddersfield Local History Society
A presentation by local historian James Chisem.
www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Our first talk of the season, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN'S THRICE CHAMPIONS: 100 YEARS ON revisits the glory years of Huddersfield Town FC in the 1920s.
Monday 26 January, Oastler building, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm. All welcome - more details here: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/hudder...
Monday 26 January, Oastler building, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm. All welcome - more details here: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/hudder...
Always great to see digitisations made freely available online! I scanned the HLHS back run of newsletters and journals a few years ago: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications...
January 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Always great to see digitisations made freely available online! I scanned the HLHS back run of newsletters and journals a few years ago: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications...
May 1972 appears to be the earliest mention of what would become the forever name of the proposed "Metropolitan Borough District 6D". Sir John was not amused.
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
May 1972 appears to be the earliest mention of what would become the forever name of the proposed "Metropolitan Borough District 6D". Sir John was not amused.
What's that? You want to know who in the Holmfirth area voted for whom in the 1848 West Riding Election?! Well, you're in luck!
huddersfield.exposed/s/78279
I just need to build up the energy to tackle transcribing the Huddersfield voters 😁
huddersfield.exposed/s/78279
I just need to build up the energy to tackle transcribing the Huddersfield voters 😁
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
What's that? You want to know who in the Holmfirth area voted for whom in the 1848 West Riding Election?! Well, you're in luck!
huddersfield.exposed/s/78279
I just need to build up the energy to tackle transcribing the Huddersfield voters 😁
huddersfield.exposed/s/78279
I just need to build up the energy to tackle transcribing the Huddersfield voters 😁
Pub quiz trivia time! What links Wood Street in Huddersfield to both Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" and this Pulp album cover?
January 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Pub quiz trivia time! What links Wood Street in Huddersfield to both Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" and this Pulp album cover?
I had my fingers crossed that the 50th anniversary of the 1852 Holmfirth Flood in 1902 might have prompted a newspaper journalist to seek out eyewitness stories from survivors and indeed that's what happened.
huddersfield.exposed/s/78222
huddersfield.exposed/s/78222
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I had my fingers crossed that the 50th anniversary of the 1852 Holmfirth Flood in 1902 might have prompted a newspaper journalist to seek out eyewitness stories from survivors and indeed that's what happened.
huddersfield.exposed/s/78222
huddersfield.exposed/s/78222
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This short thread has once again sent me on another fruitless search to find the source of Betjemen's alleged description of Golcar as like a "Provence of the North".
Inspired by Barnsley’s claim to
Tuscan hill town status.
Marsden.
Tuscan hill town status.
Marsden.
January 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This short thread has once again sent me on another fruitless search to find the source of Betjemen's alleged description of Golcar as like a "Provence of the North".
Not a street name, but a special shout out to the residents of Nether Shitlington 💩 Over Shitlington 💩 and Middle Shitlington 💩 (all between Huddersfield and Wakefield) who collectively decided to rename their respective villages in the 1920s (presumably on the grounds of embarrassment)
We see your Humble Jumble Lane and raise you Crack-brain-court and New Martin Street a.k.a. Shall-I-go-naked-street! These are from Whitechapel, London, in the early 1700s. Does anyone have any more stupendous street names, from #OnePlaceStudies or elsewhere, to share on #OnePlaceWednesday?
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Not a street name, but a special shout out to the residents of Nether Shitlington 💩 Over Shitlington 💩 and Middle Shitlington 💩 (all between Huddersfield and Wakefield) who collectively decided to rename their respective villages in the 1920s (presumably on the grounds of embarrassment)
Very pleased to have rooted out another eyewitness account of the 1852 Holmfirth Flood -- this time from George Hirst, the son of Mary Hirst whose Bible was salvaged several weeks after the flood on 21 April with the rusty imprint of her reading glasses inside.
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huddersfield.exposed/s/78157
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Very pleased to have rooted out another eyewitness account of the 1852 Holmfirth Flood -- this time from George Hirst, the son of Mary Hirst whose Bible was salvaged several weeks after the flood on 21 April with the rusty imprint of her reading glasses inside.
huddersfield.exposed/s/78157
huddersfield.exposed/s/78157
From 1934, aka "the good ol' days when you could blow local landmarks up to make way for quarries" 💥
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
From 1934, aka "the good ol' days when you could blow local landmarks up to make way for quarries" 💥
Hats off to Oldfield & Studdard of Kirkgate, Huddersfield, for this terrible pun in January 1934! Interest in Nessie had started to grow after a sighting in July 1933 by George Spicer and his wife. A few months after this advert appeared, the famous (hoax) "Surgeon's Photo" was taken.
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Hats off to Oldfield & Studdard of Kirkgate, Huddersfield, for this terrible pun in January 1934! Interest in Nessie had started to grow after a sighting in July 1933 by George Spicer and his wife. A few months after this advert appeared, the famous (hoax) "Surgeon's Photo" was taken.
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If you have ancestors buried in Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford this newly launched database created by the Undercliffe Cemetery Charity might be of interest. Details in the photo below.
#FamilyHistory #WestYorkshire #Cemetery
#FamilyHistory #WestYorkshire #Cemetery
January 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
If you have ancestors buried in Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford this newly launched database created by the Undercliffe Cemetery Charity might be of interest. Details in the photo below.
#FamilyHistory #WestYorkshire #Cemetery
#FamilyHistory #WestYorkshire #Cemetery
The start of 2026 has filled me with a mild panic that it'll soon be the 175th anniversary of the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 and I really should try and set a finishing line for ending my research into it 😲 In the meantime, I've put together this page today: huddersfield.exposed/s/78056
Holmfirth Flood of 1852 - Inns and victims - Huddersfield Exposed: Exploring the History of the Huddersfield Area
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January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The start of 2026 has filled me with a mild panic that it'll soon be the 175th anniversary of the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 and I really should try and set a finishing line for ending my research into it 😲 In the meantime, I've put together this page today: huddersfield.exposed/s/78056