Halifax Evening Courier

Calendar of Events

1935

• Tuesday, 1st January 1935: Baronetcy for Sir Harold Mackintosh in New Year's Honours

• Saturday, 5th January 1935: Youth hostel opened at Luddenden Dean

• Sunday, 6th January 1935: Radio broadcast from Rhodes Street Methodist Church, Halifax

• Saturday, 12th January 1935: Halifax Peace Ballot; big majority in favour of Britain remaining a member of the League of Nations

• Wednesday, 23rd January 1935: Hipperholme ratepayers oppose union with Halifax after Hipperholme Council had voted in favour

• Tuesday, 29th January 1935: More opposition to Halifax extension from Wadsworth. Support from Sowerby Bridge but not from Heptonstall

• Sunday, 3rd February 1935: Death of Rt Hon J. H. Whitley, aged 68, former Speaker of the House of Commons and MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928

• Saturday, 16th February 1935: Flooding in Calder Valley. Mills stopped at Sowerby Bridge

• Tuesday, 19th February 1935: Halifax reservoirs full to capacity

• Friday, 22nd February 1935: Air Ministry turned down plans for the Illingworth aerodrome site

• Monday, 25th February 1935: Death of Lord Somerleyton, MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1906 and a Freeman since 1907

• Thursday, 28th February 1935: Poll on Halifax Extension Bill. Sowerby 1,136 for, 4,860 against; Luddendenfoot 92 for, 1,342 against; Midgley 107 for, 777 against

• Monday, 4th March 1935: Death of Mr Walter Emmott, of Eversley Mount, Halifax, aged 81, a pioneer of electricity and telephony

• Wednesday, 13th March 1935: Second Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment in action against Indian rebel forces

• Wednesday, 13th March 1935: Hipperholme ballot in favour of autonomy and against amalgamation with Brighouse or Halifax

• Saturday, 30th March 1935: Dr J. D. Cockroft of Todmorden, reported to have produced radio-active substance from sodium

• Saturday, 30th March 1935: New library opened at Ripponden

• Friday, 5th April 1935: First Halifax prosecution under 30 mph speed limit

• Tuesday, 23rd April 1935: Boy killed by lightening at Mount Tabor

• Saturday, 27th April 1935: British Legion headquarters opened at Hebden Bridge

• Monday, 6th May 1935: Tremendous jubilee rejoicings for the 25th anniversary of the King's accession to the throne

• Tuesday, 7th May 1935: Line of trees planted in Shibden Park by prominent people

• Thursday, 9th May 1935: Ling Bob playing fields opened

• Wednesday, 29th May 1935: Two Mixenden cottages wrecked by explosion and old woman later died of her injuries

• Wednesday, 5th June 1935: House of Lords decided to exclude Wadsworth, Heptonstall, Shelf and Queensbury from the Halifax extension proposals, but to allow other proposals to proceed

• Tuesday, 18th June 1935: Brighouse Flying Club formed

• Wednesday, 17th July 1935: Halifax Extension Bill thrown out by House of Commons committee

• Wednesday, 24th July 1935: First profit on Halifax trams and buses for 10 years

• Wednesday, 14th August 1935: Two Halifax men shipwrecked in trawler off Ayrshire

• Monday, 26th August 1935: Her Majesty the Queen visited Sir Harold and Lady Mackintosh

• Saturday, 31st August 1935: Plans released for 306 pedestrians crossings in Halifax

• Monday, 2nd September 1935: Black Dyke Band won Belle Vue contest for the 15th time

• Tuesday, 3rd September 1935: Jubilee Works, West Parade, Halifax, opened by cash register firm G. H. Gledhill & Sons

• Wednesday, 4th September 1935: Sowerby Bridge Council bought former mills in Wharf Street for a new civic centre

• Monday, 9th September 1935: Services to commemorate century of local government in Halifax

• Wednesday, 11th September 1935: Foundation stone laid of new police station at Ovenden

• Saturday, 21st September 1935: Cragg Vale Methodist Church and Cross Stone Church, Todmorden, centenaries

• Tuesday, 24th September 1935: Clearance plans for Gardener's Square, Barley Corn Square, Hob Houses and Bell's Court, Halifax

• Saturday, 12th October 1935: Mount Tabor Methodist Sunday School centenary

• Friday, 25th October 1935: 31 – Adoption of General Election candidates; Ashley Mitchell (Liberal, Halifax), W. J. Tout (Labour, Sowerby), Ald A. W. Longbottom (Labour, Halifax), Gilbert Gledhill (National Conservative, Halifax), Mr M. S. McCorquodale (National Conservative, Sowerby), Mr C. Roden Buxton (Labour, Halifax) and Mr Thomas Levi (National Conservative, Elland) 

• Tuesday, 12th November 1935: Death of Thomas Atkinson, oldest clogger in Halifax

• Thursday, 14th November 1935: Disastrous fire at Holme Royd Mills, Luddendenfoot

• Thursday, 21st November 1935: Pepper Hill Methodist Chapel, Shelf, collapsed in ruins

• Monday, 2nd December 1935: Opening of new Yorkshire Penny Bank premises in Waterhouse Street, Halifax

• Thursday, 19th December 1935: Radio broadcast of the "Messiah" by Halifax Choral Society

Pictures for this Year

This Page of the Evening Courier Millennium Souvenir contains the following photographs

• King's Silver Jubilee – Halifax and district celebrate in patriotic style – picture of King George V, and – Bonfires and beacons were lit throughout the district to celebrate the jubilee, including this massive bonfire at Roundhill, Rastrick

• A decorated tramcar took to the streets of Halifax to celebrate the jubilee. It is seen at the junction of Pellon Lane and Queens Road

• This Town of Ours – A policeman on point duty directs traffic at the busy junction of Commercial Street, Waterhouse Street and Crown Street, Halifax

• Choral Society in Radio Broadcast – Opera singer Walter Widdop

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