J. Margaret Stansfield's "Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922" contains an entry for Driver J. Stephenson of the Royal Field Artillery but had very biographical details, other than his death in 1921. Turns out he left the Army in 1889 and had no role in the First World War.

A little addition to the "Location" section on the site. If there are any individuals in the Huddersfield & District Roll of Honour, they'll appear in a new tab: huddersfield.exposed/s/4299

Simply because it's come up on a FB group, I'm pondering whether or not to tell you all the convoluted tale of the "ancient wells" under Huddersfield Market Place. If someone wants to buy me a virtual coffee, I'll make an actual cuppa and begin posting ☕🙂 buymeacoffee.com/huddersfield...

Link here about the camp, 2nd article www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5562/bu...

The head of the valley is known locally as "Isle of Skye". The land-owning Beaumont family of Whitley Hall had a hunting lodge somewhere in that area in the 1700s which was said "resembles ye Habitations of the Druids in ye Scotch Islands" and perhaps led to the naming of the area.

This is above the entrance to a yard between 51 and 53 Trinity Street, although not too obvious which property has access to it. In the 1930s, 51 was a piano dealer (Fred Haigh) and 53 was a piano tuner & teacher (George Frederick Garner).

Gah... spoke too soon 😁 Huge uptick in bad bot requests. The difference today is that they're primarily making use of US-based server hosting companies rather than compromised/hacked domestic ISP devices. huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Hudders...

'Tis Shrove Tuesday 🥞 which means I forgot that yesterday was Collop Monday 💰 huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Collop_...

Great to see Geoff Lumb's book on "Karrier: The Huddersfield Years" has finally made it into print, even if the price tag is a little hefty. I'd better start saving up my pennies 🙂 huddersfieldhub.co.uk/fascinating-...

That thing when you're a local newspaper journalist in December 1860 and your boss sends you off to attend a meeting in Holmfirth where they're discussing the pros and cons of implementing the Local Government Act of 1858... "a long and tedious discussion on its merits and demerits followed" 😁

I'm beginning to wonder if the AI Bubble has finally burst... the volume of AI company fake bots targeting Huddersfield Exposed has nose dived (they're the "bad bots" on the graphs). huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Hudders...

OUR NEXT TALK - in person. Monday 23 Feb at the University of Huddersfield, Oastler building. All welcome Full details Here: tinyurl.com/4a2khbtz

Here's a photo of the Fixby Hall ice house. huddersfield.exposed/s/20158

With thanks to a 1999 Denis Kilcommons article in the "Examiner" where an unnamed correspondent vaguely recalled there being a curry house called "Mohammed's" on Chapel Hill in the 1960s, it looks likely the first place to buy a curry in Huddersfield might have been the Chapel Hill Cafe...

Todmorden 1971. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This has made me wonder what the first Huddersfield curry house might have been... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fairly sure I didn't pay more than £10 for my copy 😁 It's currently on my large pile of "books to scan and make freely available online". If anyone wants to sponsor the digitisation, so that it happens sooner rather than later, just get in touch!

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 😜

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

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.

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...

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 😀 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

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.

A fascinating article about Paul Robeson, who performed in Huddersfield several times over the decades. 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!!

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...

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.

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 😁

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

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)

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

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.

"FFBRUARY"

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

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

Just finished watching the last episode. Not sure it needed quite so much AI generated cold breath tho. Eyewitness accounts from the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 can be found here (and hopefully I'll add a few more in 2026) huddersfield.exposed/s/54091

A couple of photos of the Karrier Works' First World War Roll of Honour. Firstly in situ in the Karrier Motors Ltd offices in Huddersfield and then in the workshop/museum of Geoff Lumb at Golcar back in 2020. I believe it's now on display in Huddersfield Drill Hall. huddersfield.exposed/s/28360

I'm still living in hope that the "History of Netherthong" site might yet still be revived in its original format. However, until then, I've started to reproduce some of its content. Hopefully Mike would approve! huddersfield.exposed/wiki/History...

Peace on Earth and goodwill to all men... unless they're the men from the neighbouring township, in which case Christmas Day is an excuse to put on your clogs and give them a violent kicking! ⚽🤕

An undated photo postcard. huddersfield.exposed/archive/item...

As featured on a Bamforth & Co. Ltd. (Holmfirth) song postcard from the early 1900s.