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07:12, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Frank Hewitt aged 24 (hist | edit) ‎[676 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Frank Hewitt aged 24 === Frank Hewitt was born in 1894. The Family lived at 8 Chapel Street, Frank had 5 elder sisters including his twin. In 1911, the family were living at 19 Halifax Lane. Frank had been a grocer’s apprentice for the Coop before he signed up. We have little detail on his time in the Army. We know that he joined the Duke of Wellington Regiment but his war records have not survived. He died at the Casualty Clearing Station after being gass...") Tag: Visual edit
07:12, 6 September 2026 ‎Private John Edward Roach aged 22 (hist | edit) ‎[2,445 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private John Edward Roach aged 22 === John Edward Roach was born in Bradford on 27th March 1896. In the 1901 census, Father John, born in Manchester, and Mother Mary Elizabeth, born in Bradford, both aged 27 were living at 4 Paper Hall Square in Bradford. By 1911 he was no longer with his parents, who now had another son Philip (b.1906) and were living at Wilfred St, Bradford. John Edward would have only been 15 years old, so where was he? Well he was at a Roman Cat...") Tag: Visual edit
07:11, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Angus Robinson aged 18 (hist | edit) ‎[2,211 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Angus Robinson aged 18. === Angus was born in Hull in 1899 to Angus and Sarah Ann. By 1911 they had moved to 22 Thorney Lane, Midgley. He was then at school and his father was a Wool Comber. His three older siblings were also in Worsted. He also worked for Murgatroyd’s before he was conscripted into the Duke of Wellington’s in August 1917. By April 1917 he had transferred to the 11th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. The battalion diaries report that o...") Tag: Visual edit
07:11, 6 September 2026 ‎Lance Bombardier John Bolton aged 33 (hist | edit) ‎[597 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Lance Bombardier John Bolton aged 33 === John was the son of Thomas Mitchell Bolton and Jane Bolton of Brearley and was born on 1885. By 1911 he was living at Wheatley Royd and working on his father’s farm. In 1913 he married Annie (nee Bloomer), a teacher, of Lane House. When he signed up in 1916 they were living at Lane House, with two small children, and he was earning a living as a market gardener and cattle dealer. His wife later moved to Buttress. He is buri...") Tag: Visual edit
07:10, 6 September 2026 ‎Gunner George Broadbent aged 24 (hist | edit) ‎[559 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Gunner George Broadbent aged 24 === George was born in Holmfirth. In the 1911Census he was living with his Father Luke and Mother Sarah Jane at 2 Scotland, Midgley. Luke was a delver in a stone quarry, as was their eldest son, John. George was aged 17 and a Woollen Mule Piecer. His service records still exist but his story is best told by an extract from the Hebden Bridge Times. He is buried in Jonchery-Sur-Vesle British Cemetary, Marne, France, and commemorated on...") Tag: Visual edit
07:10, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Sam Binns aged 33 (hist | edit) ‎[895 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Sam Binns aged 33 === Sam was born in July 1884. In the 1891 census, he was at 10 Solomon Hill. In 1901 he was with his father, Charles Patrick, a Plasterer / whitewasher labourer, and mother Sarah Binns, at 2 Old Riding Head. He was working as a Paper Finisher. In March 1904 he was signed up for 6 years army service. He was 5ft 2 ¾ in tall, 34 in chest, with grey eyes and dark brown hair. It seems that somehow he bought himself out within days. In 1907 he...") Tag: Visual edit
07:09, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Clifford Campbell aged 18 (hist | edit) ‎[3,761 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Clifford Campbell aged 18 === Clifford Campbell was born on 3rd Sept 1899 in Mirfield. The family relocated shortly after his birth and in the 1901 census the Campbells are living at 7 Duke Street. His mother died in 1906. His father Charles remarried and in the 1911 census, the family are still on Duke Street, Clifford with his 2 brothers Colin and Herbert and a sister Nellie. Clifford worked for R T Riley and Co at Peel House Mills. His father Charles, muc...") Tag: Visual edit
07:04, 6 September 2026 ‎Private John Patrick Kelly aged 25 (hist | edit) ‎[1,266 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private John Patrick Kelly aged 25 === John Kelly was born in Liverpool, son of Joseph and Anne who were from Ireland. He had two sisters and one brother. The family moved to Luddenden in the early 1900’s and in 1911 they were living at 9 Providence Place. His sister who must have been listed as next of kin was living on Delph Hill Lane at the time of John’s death. He signed up for the 4th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons Regiment on 14th August 1914 only a week af...") Tag: Visual edit
07:04, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt aged 35 (hist | edit) ‎[951 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt aged 35 === Private Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt was born in Leeds in 1883. The family moved around quite a lot, so in 1891 he’s living in Liverpool and by 1901 he’s at 22 Providence Place with his mother and three sisters. He was married at St Mary’s in 1907 to Fanny Smith at which time he was living on Apple house Terrace. In 1911 his mother and his four sisters and two brothers are living on Brook Terrace. The family moved...") Tag: Visual edit
07:03, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Thomas Henry Sutcliffe aged 36 (hist | edit) ‎[1,171 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Thomas Henry Sutcliffe aged 36 === Thomas Henry Sutcliffe was born 9 September 1881. His mother Mary (nee Thomas) died that same year aged 38. His father Benjamin died in 1884. He was brought up by his grandmother Sarah (or Sally) Thomas and aunt Sarah Thomas who both lived to ripe old ages – Sally to 80 and Sarah to 74 (and never married). In 1891 they lived at Towngate and in 1911 lived at Springfield, with head of household Sarah, Woollen Weaver. Thomas...") Tag: Visual edit
07:03, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Karl Chapman aged 20 (hist | edit) ‎[952 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Karl Chapman aged 20 === Karl Chapman was born in 1896. In 1911, Karl lived at 2 Old Lane with his mother Ruth and father Edmund (both in their sixties) and was working (aged 14) as a Worsted Doffer. He was one of 9 children. In 1901 the family was at Halifax Lane Fold and 1881 on Church Hill. Karl attended both St James and Midgley Sunday Schools and had moved to Dove’s Rest, Midgley by 1916. He signed up in Hebden Bridge in January 1916 for the Kings Roy...") Tag: Visual edit
07:02, 6 September 2026 ‎Lt Richard Bracken Farrer aged 37 (hist | edit) ‎[2,659 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Lt Richard Bracken Farrer aged 37 === Richard Bracken Farrer was born on the 12th April 1880 at “Woodlands”, Midgley, Yorkshire, Richard was the youngest son of Lt Colonel Arthur Farrer and Edith Annie Bracken. Richard had an elder brother, Arthur and two younger sisters, Edith and Hilda. In the 1891 census Richard and brother Arthur are at boarding school in Nottingham, Richard was also a boarder in 1899 at Rossall Boarding School, Lancashire before attending O...") Tag: Visual edit
07:02, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Charlie Dewhirst aged 22 (hist | edit) ‎[1,095 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Charlie Dewhirst aged 22. === Charlie Dewhirst was one of ten children of Henry and Eliza Dewhirst. The family lived at 19 Pall Mall and Sunny Brink in Mytholmroyd before moving to 4 Lane Ends, Midgley where Charlie attended Midgley United Methodist Chapel and Sunday School. Aged 16 in 1911 he worked as a worsted weaver. He enlisted in the army at Hebden Bridge in October 1915 and joined the Yorkshire Dragoons, a territorial unit. He went to France in Decemb...") Tag: Visual edit
07:01, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Herbert Murgatroyd aged 25 (hist | edit) ‎[1,006 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Herbert Murgatroyd aged 25 === Herbert Murgatroyd was a Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. Before he enlisted in Halifax, Herbert lived with his parents (his father Eli being a Worsted Overlooker) and two sisters, Edith and Liza, at 3 Bethel Terrace and he worked as a clerk at Brookes of Lightcliffe, Stone Merchants. He had attended Luddenden Wesleyan Ch...") Tag: Visual edit
06:58, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Matthew Ackroyd aged 21 (hist | edit) ‎[729 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Matthew Ackroyd aged 21 === Matthew Ackroyd was born in Barrow in Furness. He worked at Maude’s Clog Factory and lived with his parents at 17 Halifax Lane. His older brother Edwin had lost his life in September 1916. He like fellow villager Tom Summerscales was in the 27th Northumberland Fusiliers (aka Tyneside Irish). He died on the first day of the Battle of Arras. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France as well as in I...") Tag: Visual edit
06:58, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Harold Greenwood aged 24 (hist | edit) ‎[1,340 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Harold Greenwood aged 24 === Harold was the only child of Fred and Mary Greenwood. He was born in Ovenden, but by 1911, the family was in Luddenden living at 5 Ive House. Father Fred (45, a stone bearer), mother Mary (48, woollen weaver) and Harold aged 17 working as a woollen piecer. His Father Fred was in the Pioneer Corps, but was discharged on April 18th 1918, so at the time of Harold’s death, mother Mary would have been on her own with both her men fi...") Tag: Visual edit
06:57, 6 September 2026 ‎Gunner John Joseph Corboy aged 27 (hist | edit) ‎[813 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Gunner John Joseph Corboy aged 27 === John Joseph Corboy was the son of Maurice and Margaret Corboy, both originally from Ireland, and who by 1911 were living at Solomon Hill with seven children (his brothers James, then aged 32 and a third brother, William aged 16 both also served in the war, but survived). At age 18, in 1904, John was working as a textile labourer at Crossley Carpets at Dean Mill. Sometime later, he left home and enlisted in Halifax and in 1911 he...") Tag: Visual edit
06:57, 6 September 2026 ‎Rifleman Edwin Ackroyd aged 20 (hist | edit) ‎[1,123 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Rifleman Edwin Ackroyd aged 20 === Edwin Ackroyd was born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1886. His family moved to Luddenden and in the 1901 census, they are living on Applehouse Terrace. By the time of his enlistment in 1915 was living at 17 Halifax Lane and working at Watson’s Mill in Sowerby Bridge. Following basic training with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps was sent to France. In September 1916, during the terrible chaos of the Battle of the Somme, he was severely w...") Tag: Visual edit
06:55, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Harry Patrick aged 39 (hist | edit) ‎[1,453 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Harry Patrick aged 39 === Harry Patrick, the youngest of seven children was christened at Saint Mary’s as Henry Patrick on 21st February 1883 The christening was a job lot alongside his brother Herbert and sister Emma Jane, Harry was born on 22nd October of the previous year. His parents were John and Hannah Patrick. John and John’s father Samuel were joiners and cabinet makers and the Patrick family is living at Pepperhill in the first national census i...") Tag: Visual edit
06:55, 6 September 2026 ‎Pioneer William Ackerley aged 48 (hist | edit) ‎[2,032 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Pioneer William Ackerley aged 48 === William Ackerley was born in Wrenbury in Cheshire around 1872 to William and Betsey. His father was a Cow Keeper. The family, 3 boys and one girl moved to Kirby, Liverpool in the 1880’s where they had a cattle farm. He married Ellen Dugdale in 1895 and the couple, still living in Liverpool, had by 1911 five daughters and three sons. William is working as a carter of mineral water, which I think my generation would describe as a...") Tag: Visual edit
06:53, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Tom Summerscales aged 25 (hist | edit) ‎[1,076 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Tom Summerscales aged 25 === Tom Summerscales worked as a blanket finisher, farm labourer and then as a driver for Greenwoods, cabinet makers in Halifax and had attended Warley Congregational Sunday School, living with his parents and 4 siblings at North Clough Head then Raw End. He married Eliza Jane Broadbent of South Ive House at St Mary’s Church in May 1915 and they had a son, John. Their home was at Lower Stubbings. Like Matthew Ackroyd, he was a Priv...") Tag: Visual edit
06:52, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Willie Mitchell aged 29 (hist | edit) ‎[1,378 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Willie Mitchell aged 29 === Willie Mitchell was a Private in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment and had enlisted in Derby. Like many of those who fought in the Battle of Arras (April to June 1917) he has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. He’s also commemorated on the church window, the St James’s Chapel Roll of Honour and the Working Mens’ Club Roll of Honour (now in the Lord Nelson Inn). Willie was bor...") Tag: Visual edit
06:52, 6 September 2026 ‎Private John Murgatroyd aged 29 (hist | edit) ‎[1,686 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private John Murgatroyd aged 29 === John Murgatroyd was a Private in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment and had enlisted in November 1914, being sent to France in January 1917. Like many of those who fought in the Battle of Arras (April to June 1917) he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. He’s also commemorated on the window inside St Mary’s Church. John started his life with his parents John William (a bootmake...") Tag: Visual edit
06:48, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Alfred Holmes aged 30 (hist | edit) ‎[2,027 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Alfred Holmes aged 30 === Alfred was born on 11th August 1888 in Ovenden to William and Kezia Holmes. He was the third of 7 children, with brothers John, James and Harry and sisters Margaret, Mary and Eliza Jane. The family moved to Brown Hill Farm on Thorney Lane in the 1880’s and in the 1891 census his father William is listed as a Wool sorter and farmer. In 1911 Alfred is working as a Quarryman having formerly been a worsted doffer. Alfred’s three bro...") Tag: Visual edit
06:48, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Jesse Ogden aged 22 (hist | edit) ‎[2,250 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Jesse Ogden aged 22 === Jesse Ogden was born on 10 May 1896 to Joseph and Mary Ellen Ogden and was christened at St Mary’s on 9 August of that year. He had one elder brother Albert who died at Passchendaele in October 1917 (also commemorated on the war memorial), a younger brother Allan and a sister Rhoda. The family lived a 4 North Ive House and Jesse’s father was a railway signalman. Both Albert and Jesse worked as Woollen piecers. Jesse’s parent wer...") Tag: Visual edit
06:47, 6 September 2026 ‎Gunner John Ogden Horsfield aged 27 (hist | edit) ‎[1,393 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Gunner John Ogden Horsfield aged 27 === John Ogden Horsfield was born in 1892 to Alfred and Elizabeth Hanna Horsfield. He was one of four children, he had an older brother Ernest and two sisters Ruth and Janet. In 1911, the family was living at 19 Goitside, John is a grocer’s assistant, his father Alfred is working at Bracken’s Paper Mill, The two girls are both making clothes and his older brother Ernest is a police Constable in the Lancashire Constabulary work...") Tag: Visual edit
06:47, 6 September 2026 ‎Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 (hist | edit) ‎[2,476 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 === Isaac Rayner was born on 20 May 1888 to Thomas and Fanny Rayner. He had one younger sister Evelyn. The family lived for many years at Broadfold where his father was the Coachman for the Murgatroyd family. At the age of 13 Issac was working as a worsted spinner but by 1911 like his father, he is working with horses as a groom, for another textile mill owner in Tottington near Bury. His sister Evelyn was married at St Mary’s in July...") Tag: Visual edit
06:46, 6 September 2026 ‎Private William Noel Ackerley aged 18 (hist | edit) ‎[3,154 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private William Noel Ackerley aged 18 === William was born in Liverpool in January 1900. His father and grandfather, both also named William were at that time farmers at Coopers Farm, Sandy Lane, Kirkby. It is unclear when or why the family moved to Luddenden, but we know by 1918 they were living at 8 Providence Place. William Noel had 5 sisters and 2 brothers. Both William Noel and his father were working at J Bracken and Sons Paper mill, which was just a few hundr...") Tag: Visual edit
06:44, 6 September 2026 ‎Private David Victor Jackson aged 23 (hist | edit) ‎[4,414 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private David Victor Jackson aged 23 === David was born in Luddenden in 1895 and was the only child of James and Elizabeth Jackson. In 1911 the family is living at 23 Thorney Lane Midgley. David aged 15 is working as an under clerk. By 1914 he was a clerk at a Solicitors in Halifax Messes Godfrey, Rhodes and Evans David’s war records are not available, but he was in the Highland Light infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). We know that he had been injured twice already,...") Tag: Visual edit
06:43, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Harry Oates aged 19 (hist | edit) ‎[2,052 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Harry Oates aged 19 === Harry was born on 7th July 1899 at 26 Booth Terrace. In the 1911 census the family is living at 23 Apple House Terrace. His mother Harriett who originally came from Mosborough in Derbyshire is listed as a Char woman, she is married to Herbert Goodall, there are 5 children, Harry and John William Oates and siblings Albert, Annie and Eliza Goodall. Harry’s Mother lived at this address until her death in 1945. Before the war Harry work...") Tag: Visual edit
06:43, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Willie Uttley aged 33 (hist | edit) ‎[2,788 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Willie Uttley aged 33 === Willie Uttley was born in 1885 to James and Eliza Uttley. He was one of five children, he had an older brother Sam and three sisters Sarah, Annie and Alice. In 1911, the family was living in one of the houses behind Broadfold Hall. All the family worked in Oats Royd Mill apart from older brother Sam, occupation Tailor and who lived in the house next to the Woodman inn in Booth. And Willie who is a quarryman for Wilson and Haigh at M...") Tag: Visual edit
06:43, 6 September 2026 ‎Bombardier William Henry Wormald aged 21 (hist | edit) ‎[1,332 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Bombardier William Henry Wormald aged 21 === William Henry Wormald was born on 26 August 1896 and was christened at St Mary’s on 1 November. In the 1901 census, the family is living at School House where his father William Henry Wormald was the School Teacher. In the 1911 census, he was living with his brother Patchett Wormald at 3 Thorn View, Luddenden. His parents William Henry and Anne (nee Patchet) both died a few years earlier. He attended St Mary’s Church...") Tag: Visual edit
06:39, 6 September 2026 ‎Private Percy Odell aged 20 (hist | edit) ‎[612 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Percy Odell aged 20 === Percy Odell lived at 2 Halifax Lane with his mother Mary Hannah and sister Beatrice. His father George and brother Albert had had both died some years previously. He worked as a mill hand at Clay and Co, Luddenden Foot, and enlisted in October 1915. He was one of the 57,000 casualties on day one of the Battle of the Somme and died the following day. He is buried in the Bertrancourt cemetery in France. In the Halifax Courier on 15 July...") Tag: Visual edit
18:09, 5 September 2026 ‎Private James C Morris Breeze aged 30 (hist | edit) ‎[1,040 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private James C Morris Breeze aged 30 === James has been difficult to locate as the family did not live in the village for very long. James was born in Abergavenny and was one of nine children. His parents were John Breeze and Sarah Ann Morris both from Shropshire. In 1901 the family was living in Wavertree, Liverpool. I cannot find them on the 1911 Census. James had joined the navy in 1903 and was based at Davenport, but only lasted a couple of years before he was...") Tag: Visual edit
18:07, 5 September 2026 ‎Private Richard Henry Hallas aged 35 (hist | edit) ‎[1,203 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Richard Henry Hallas aged 35 === Richard Henry Hallas was born in Paddock, Huddersfield on 20 March 1880 to Henry Hallas born in Ripponden and Mary Emma (nee Atkinson) born in Leeds. In 1891, aged 11 and living in Luddenden he was a woollen operative, and associated with Luddenden Church & School; a member of the School Pierrot Troupe. In 1901 he was 21 and a joiner with Mr Noble in Halifax and living at Bank Terrace with his parents (his father a Leather Cu...") Tag: Visual edit
18:05, 5 September 2026 ‎Private Cyril Wormald Thomas aged 18 (hist | edit) ‎[1,212 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Cyril Wormald Thomas aged 18 === Cyril Wormald Thomas was born in January 1899. In the 1901 Census, the family are at The Granby Arms on High Street, his father John Henry was both an overlooker and a Publican. In the 1911 census, the family is at 1 Applehouse Terrace with his father John Henry, a Combing Overlooker, aged 45 and a widower, and Betty Uttley, 77, a widowed aunt. The notice in the Halifax Courier dated 25th September 1915 is as follows ''Privat...") Tag: Visual edit
18:03, 5 September 2026 ‎Private Thomas Greenwood aged 31 (hist | edit) ‎[2,640 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Private Thomas Greenwood aged 31 === This article from the Halifax Courier of 28 August 1915 provides the story of Private Thomas Greenwood: PTE T Greenwood, of Luddenden The family of Pte. Thos. Greenwood, 6513, 2nd West Riding Regiment, 21 Goit Side, Luddenden, are still without official news as to his fate. Nothing of him has been heard since Aug. 24, last year. On that date he was in a skirmish, headed by Col. Gibbs, and accompanied by his brother-in-law, Pte. A...") Tag: Visual edit
07:45, 5 September 2026 ‎WW1 PROJECT (hist | edit) ‎[3,991 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= In September 2014, Luddenden Conservation Society launched a search for relatives of local men who died in or as a result of service in WW1. = = The community history project forms the Society’s commemoration of the centenary of the First World War in Luddenden & Midgley. = The WW1 Commemoration Project has commemorated each man on the 100th anniversary of his death and has finished on 30 April 2023 with the publication of a book telling the story. Draft Chapter...") Tag: Visual edit
12:53, 4 September 2026 ‎LIFE IN 1901 LUDDENDEN (hist | edit) ‎[1,783 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''''It is an early morning November morning in Luddenden. And it’s cold! Light is only just beginning to reach the valley, but the village is already awake.''''' ''In a small stone house on Duke Street, the Greenwood family is starting their day. The father, George, has already left for work, walking towards Pepper Hill mill where he works as a worsted overlooker. His day will be long, filled with noise, heat, stress and the steady rhythm of machinery.'' File:A...") Tag: Visual edit
11:55, 4 September 2026 ‎1901 CENSUS (hist | edit) ‎[3,729 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://touch.luddenden-census.info/ 1901 CENSUS]") Tag: Visual edit
10:39, 4 September 2026 ‎WWII PROJECT (hist | edit) ‎[603 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb") Tag: Visual edit
09:33, 4 September 2026 ‎A TRAM SERVICE ARRIVES AT LUDDENDENFOOT (hist | edit) ‎[39 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "frameless|848x848px") Tag: Visual edit
09:30, 4 September 2026 ‎DAY TRIPS FOR FACTORIES AND CLUBS AND SOCIETIES (hist | edit) ‎[49 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "center|frameless|800x800px") Tag: Visual edit
09:26, 4 September 2026 ‎A RAILWAY LINE FROM LUDD'FOOT TO MIDGLEY? (hist | edit) ‎[2,832 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Luddendenfoot station could have become a junction if the plans of 1864-65 came to fruition.''' In 1864 a company was formed to build a branch about 1 3/4 miles in length from Luddendenfoot up the Luddenden valley to the village of Booth. right|frameless Justification for this project was a statement that between 30,000 and 40,000 tons of stone passed over the road to Luddendenfoot each year. '''''In May 1865 the Ludden...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "A RAILWAY LINE FROM LUDD'FOOT TO MIGLEY?"
09:17, 4 September 2026 ‎WEAVING WORSTED IN THE VALLEY (hist | edit) ‎[3,422 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The worsted industry of the West Riding of Yorkshire was one of the most important textile systems in the world by around 1900, centred especially on Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Leeds.''' center|frameless|600x600px '''Historical development of worsted weaving in the West Riding''' * Wool working in Yorkshire dates back to at least the 14th century, often as a cottage industry alongside farming. * Early production was...") Tag: Visual edit
11:32, 3 September 2026 ‎WAINSTALLS & CALVERT'S MILL (hist | edit) ‎[5,304 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''The main Wainstalls mills were in use from about 1821, and the business continued there until around 1951.''' Calderdale archives describe “the three mills” being supplied by water from the nearby Cold Edge reservoirs. thumb One of the buildings, later called 'Wainstalls Mill' or 'Upper Mill', was a 3-storey stone mill built just north of the earlier “Old Mill” sometime after 1821. '''Why was it so important?''' Wainstalls was...") Tag: Visual edit
11:10, 3 September 2026 ‎PUBLIC DISORDER ON CHAPEL STREET (hist | edit) ‎[2,474 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "hi")
11:07, 3 September 2026 ‎HEALTHCARE AND MIDWIFERY (hist | edit) ‎[4,541 bytes] ‎KevinMurrell (talk | contribs) (Added Sue's original information) Tag: Visual edit
06:52, 1 September 2026 ‎THE DEATH OF JAMES AMBLER (hist | edit) ‎[17,945 bytes] ‎PhilRadford (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === Todmorden & District News 6th June 1901 === ''SHOCKING FATALITY AT LUDDENDEN'' '''''Quite a consternation was caused in Luddenden on Wednesday by the shocking death which befell Mr. James Ambler, one of the best known and most highly respected of its residents, head of the firm of Messrs John Ambler and sons, worsted spinners Peel House mills. Mr. Ambler was at the works, as usual, shortly after breakfast, he busied himself in the office unt...")
06:28, 1 September 2026 ‎1901 PROJECT (hist | edit) ‎[1,842 bytes] ‎PhilRadford (talk | contribs) (Created page with " In 2026, the group undertook a project to look at life in the village in 1901. Each club member picked a topic of interest, something that caught their eye whilst trawling through newspaper for 1901, or some that was of particular interest to them. In addition the group undertook to transcribe the 1901 census returns for the Villages of Luddenden and Midgley and for Luddenden Dean. [https://touch.luddenden-census.info/ 1901 CENSUS] Search the 1901 cens...")