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.

#irony

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.

(not sure if that'd be classed as "palimpsest" in psychogeography?)

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:

Perhaps we could get a blue plaque installed on the University's Business School?

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 🔥

As always, you can keep an eye on which domains and CIDR ranges are currently being used by dodgy AI bots to scrape content here:
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Hudders...
Also more bad bot data to explore here:
files.huddersfield.exposed/tarpitdata/

Some more info about the Browns on this site:
www.historycalroots.com/a-different-...
www.historycalroots.com/roots-entwin...

Aha -- some more info on this page
www.historycalroots.com/roots-entwin...

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.

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.