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Exploring the history of the Huddersfield (UK) area. Account run by Dave (Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield).
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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
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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.
January 24, 2026 at 9:16 AM
(not sure if that'd be classed as "palimpsest" in psychogeography?)
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 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.
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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
Perhaps we could get a blue plaque installed on the University's Business School?
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Speaking of HDFHS...
January 23, 2026 at 5:37 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 🔥
January 23, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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/
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 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.
January 21, 2026 at 9:14 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.
January 21, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Here's a lovely anecdote from when he performed at the Ritz Cinema Huddersfield, in November 1958.
January 21, 2026 at 8:07 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.
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 PM