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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Just spotted a debate about how to pronounce "Slaithwaite". It's about time the "gh" variant (as noted here by the late George Redmonds) made a return 😜
January 30, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Just spotted a debate about how to pronounce "Slaithwaite". It's about time the "gh" variant (as noted here by the late George Redmonds) made a return 😜
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 🤕
Not from that specific year, but the closest currently is from 1900:
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There are a few adverts for auctioneers in that 1900 one.
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There are a few adverts for auctioneers in that 1900 one.
January 24, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Not from that specific year, but the closest currently is from 1900:
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Hudders...
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Categor...
There are a few adverts for auctioneers in that 1900 one.
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Hudders...
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Categor...
There are a few adverts for auctioneers in that 1900 one.
It's interesting that there are hints of the old roads. Commercial Street exists as a (mostly) pedestrian route between the campus buildings and Commercial Crescent runs behind one of the buildings.
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
It's interesting that there are hints of the old roads. Commercial Street exists as a (mostly) pedestrian route between the campus buildings and Commercial Crescent runs behind one of the buildings.
Good question and not one I knew the answer to. However, the late George Redmonds' mentions it in a couple of his books:
January 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Good question and not one I knew the answer to. However, the late George Redmonds' mentions it in a couple of his books:
Perhaps we could get a blue plaque installed on the University's Business School?
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Perhaps we could get a blue plaque installed on the University's Business School?
Speaking of HDFHS...
January 23, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Speaking of HDFHS...
I'm tempted to start a petition to get Firth Street in Huddersfield renamed back to Lime Kiln Lane 😁 The warm lime kilns were a magnet for vagrants looking for somewhere cosy to sleep on a cold night even if that risked setting their trousers alight 🔥
January 23, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I'm tempted to start a petition to get Firth Street in Huddersfield renamed back to Lime Kiln Lane 😁 The warm lime kilns were a magnet for vagrants looking for somewhere cosy to sleep on a cold night even if that risked setting their trousers alight 🔥
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).
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
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.
Yep -- just been trying to find more info... he married into the Kaye family (Elsie daughter of Joseph Kaye) and at some point the firm became Kaye Brown Ltd. She died in 1976.
January 21, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Yep -- just been trying to find more info... he married into the Kaye family (Elsie daughter of Joseph Kaye) and at some point the firm became Kaye Brown Ltd. She died in 1976.
A newspaper photographer managed to catch Robeson arriving on platform 4 at Huddersfield station in 1958, where he was met by his old friend George W. Brown who was, by then, the managing director of Messrs. Kaye Brown Ltd. The pair had studied together at Rutgers University in the late 1910s.
January 21, 2026 at 9:08 PM
A newspaper photographer managed to catch Robeson arriving on platform 4 at Huddersfield station in 1958, where he was met by his old friend George W. Brown who was, by then, the managing director of Messrs. Kaye Brown Ltd. The pair had studied together at Rutgers University in the late 1910s.
Here's a lovely anecdote from when he performed at the Ritz Cinema Huddersfield, in November 1958.
January 21, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Here's a lovely anecdote from when he performed at the Ritz Cinema Huddersfield, in November 1958.
For example, here is in March 1939 with mill workers at John Kaye & Sons on Kings Mill Lane. Robeson is on the left and the chap on the right is George W. Brown, the works manager at the mill, who was an old friend of Robeson. During the visit, he sang with the mill girls.
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 PM
For example, here is in March 1939 with mill workers at John Kaye & Sons on Kings Mill Lane. Robeson is on the left and the chap on the right is George W. Brown, the works manager at the mill, who was an old friend of Robeson. During the visit, he sang with the mill girls.
You should have cycled backwards and then it'd have been a tailwind blowing you home 🤔
January 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
You should have cycled backwards and then it'd have been a tailwind blowing you home 🤔
Unlike "Kirklees", "Calderdale" wasn't a particularly contentious suggestion for the new borough name as it'd been in use since 1960 when Calderdale Water Board was formed.
January 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Unlike "Kirklees", "Calderdale" wasn't a particularly contentious suggestion for the new borough name as it'd been in use since 1960 when Calderdale Water Board was formed.
All sorts of names had been suggested for the new metropolitan borough, with "Agbrigg", "Hilldale", "Penndale", "West Elmete" and "Wooldale" vying alongside "Kirklees" in the final six that were voted on by local councillors.
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
All sorts of names had been suggested for the new metropolitan borough, with "Agbrigg", "Hilldale", "Penndale", "West Elmete" and "Wooldale" vying alongside "Kirklees" in the final six that were voted on by local councillors.
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.
How Lingards/Lingarths was ever a fully-blown township in its own right is a mystery to me. In 1848, brothers John and William Edwin Varley were quite literally the only two people living there who could actually vote 😁
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Lingards
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Lingards
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 PM
How Lingards/Lingarths was ever a fully-blown township in its own right is a mystery to me. In 1848, brothers John and William Edwin Varley were quite literally the only two people living there who could actually vote 😁
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Lingards
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Lingards
The next person who complains that "Kirklees was never part of Huddersfield" can go suck on the fact that the voters of Clifton (inc. Sir George Armytage of Kirklees) were within the 1848 Huddersfield Polling District 😜
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The next person who complains that "Kirklees was never part of Huddersfield" can go suck on the fact that the voters of Clifton (inc. Sir George Armytage of Kirklees) were within the 1848 Huddersfield Polling District 😜
George Sykes of Meltham didn't bother vote ;-P
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
George Sykes of Meltham didn't bother vote ;-P
I love that they felt the need to spell out what the speciality was in "The Steak and Salad Grill Room" 😁
January 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I love that they felt the need to spell out what the speciality was in "The Steak and Salad Grill Room" 😁
Castle left Huddersfield to study at the Royal Academy of Art (1964-67) before going on to design iconic film posters for Stanley Kubrick and Tim Burton, and work on album covers for Bowie, Pulp and others.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Castle left Huddersfield to study at the Royal Academy of Art (1964-67) before going on to design iconic film posters for Stanley Kubrick and Tim Burton, and work on album covers for Bowie, Pulp and others.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_...
stevemepsted.com/2020/04/inte...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_...
stevemepsted.com/2020/04/inte...