Memories of Calderdale

Index of Contributions

This is a collection of memories of life in Calderdale

• Southowram's Quarries, Delves & Mines: Steven Beasley
• Dancing at the Alex – Alexandra Hall: Wallace Brown
• Schoolboy Jobs: Wallace Brown
• Those Were the Days: Wallace Brown
• Born 1943: Dipped in History: Anthony Buckless
• Holy Trinity Infants School: Malcolm Bull

• Luddenden Valley Sports Club [1949]: Anita Dewhirst
• Cricket Crazy, Centre Vale: Stephen Dobson
• Sport at Roomfield Schoolyard: Stephen Dobson
• Todmorden Grammar School: Reunion [Class of 1955]: Stephen Dobson
• Todmorden: a Poem: Stephen Dobson
• St Mary's RC School, Halifax: Jane Downey

• Education in Lightcliffe & Hipperholme 1952 onwards.: Dave Van de Gevel

• The beck that runs through Rastrick: Stan Holroyd
• The organ at Northgate End Chapel: Terry Hunter

• Salt's Mansion, Lightcliffe: Peter Jagger

• Hipperholme Businesses & Shops [1938-1948]: Elizabeth Kilner
• Kendall's Ices, Hipperholme: Elizabeth Kilner
• Park Nook, Exley: Lorraine Kirk

• Cragg Vale Paper Mill: Roger Keith Marsden
• Growing Up in the 1940s: Brian McDanielson

• Winston Churchill : June 1945: Nancy Nutman

• Stones Primary School: 1950s: John Orton

• Collinson's: Beverley Peel

• Holy Trinity School: John Rushworth

• Ash Grove, Clifton: David Shaw
• Clifton Common: Life as a child 65 years ago: David Shaw
• The Crowthers of Commercial Street, Brighouse: David Shaw
• Home Deliveries: Geoffrey Siddall
• Jim Smith: Geoffrey Siddall
• Pubs in Rishworth: Geoffrey Siddall
• Road Transport: Between the Wars: Geoffrey Siddall
• Sowerby Bridge Goods Office: 1939: Geoffrey Siddall
• Sowerby Bridge: The electricity supply: Geoffrey Siddall
• Sowerby Bridge: The Poultry Farm: Geoffrey Siddall
• Sowerby Bridge: Victorian Water Supply: Geoffrey Siddall
• The Fair Comes to Sowerby Bridge: Geoffrey Siddall
• World War II equipment: Geoffrey Siddall
• Graydon & Child: Jack Stafford

• Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden: Alan Thomas
• Sowerby Bridge and Turner & Wainwright's: Alan Thomas

• Rastrick Common & Sowerby Bridge: Elizabeth Whitmarsh
• Ripponden Stones County School: Thelma Woosey

If you want to submit your own Memories and Reminiscences for inclusion on the Calderdale Companion, please email me with the text either as an attachment in Word (or similar) format, or simply in the body of the email

Don't worry about the spelling, punctuation or grammar

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