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Mills of the Holme Valley | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Mills of the Holme Valley. BRIDGE MILL – HOLMFIRTH. Bridge Mill, Holmfirth’s oldest remaining mill, which survived fire and flood in the nineteenth century, has disappeared to make way for a supermarket. Another one bites the dust! In 1857 Broadbent’s premises almost burnt down. On 6 June there were two fires on the same day! In 1865 when Joseph Turner built a new warehouse at the opposite side of the road to the main mills, it was described as, ‘the mos...

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‘WE ARE WEARY OF SLAVERY’ | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. 8216;WE ARE WEARY OF SLAVERY’. Another Chapter in the History of Huddersfield Radicalism. Economic Distress and the Revival of Radicalism in the Huddersfield Area 1826-1830. Bank Crash and Austerity 1826-1829. Throughout the years of depression, trade nevertheless continued with the continent, one Huddersfield merchant, William Willans dealing with Hanover, Leipsic, Frankfurt, Turin, Berlin, Oporto, Brussels and Paris in the years 1825-30. [4]. A veiled ...

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Huddersfield Hall of Science | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Huddersfield Hall of Science. Hall of Science, Bath Street, Huddersfield, built in 1839 as a meeting place for Owenite Socialists. This attempt to describe the development of Owenism in one locality is a contribution to a clearer understanding of a vital aspect of working class history. It also poses a question about the future. Is Socialism merely about changing the economic system or is it an ideology of wider moral and cultural liberation? They propos...

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Mills Of the Colne Valley | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Mills Of the Colne Valley. The Old Corn Mill/ Colne Mill Slaithwaite. The fire at Colne Mill in Slaithwaite on 1 August will probably mark the end of textile manufacture, or indeed any industrial activity on one of the oldest mill sites in the Colne Valley. In fact Colne Mill is a corruption of Corn Mill and the site was known in the 19. The Old Corn Mill, Slaithwaite, 1982 (Brooke Collection). Joseph Hirst was a former handloom weaver and putter out who...

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University of Southampton Special Collections | Page 2

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University of Southampton Special Collections. Newer posts →. The World Archaeological Congress. August 23, 2016. Next week marks thirty years since the first World Archaeological Congress took place at the University of Southampton. In our latest blog post we take a brief look at the controversial events leading up to the conference. Poster for a public meeting on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa [MS 406 A4167]. World Archaeological Bulletin, Number 1 (1987) [MS 406 A4167]. August 17, 2016.

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Events/Talks/Meetings | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. CLUB, BANKWELL RD, MILNSBRIDGE. Thursday 3 July 2014 7.30pm. A Talk by Local Radical Historian and Amateur Naturalist Alan Brooke on :. Naturalist Societies in the Colne Valley. Hudds Ludds on Neo-Luddism at the ‘Breaking the Frame’ Gathering. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Patriotism and pacifism: Valley radicals resist the call for war! Will look at the intense anti-war debate before World War War I in Huddersfield and surrounding valleys. Or Richard Mu...

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The Architecture of Huddersfield | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. The Architecture of Huddersfield. ST GEORGE’S SQUARE AND THE LAMP OF MEMORY. Shining a little Neo-Ruskinite light on a part of Huddersfield . St George’s Square – Lion Arcade with Britannia Buildings to the right of picture. May Day demonstration, St George’s Square, 1907. Every stranger who alights from the railway must be filled with amazement that so much money could have been expended and so ineffective a result obtained’. Britannia Ruskin, in his fa...

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VALLEY NATURALISTS | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. The Botanical Tradition, Radicalism and Naturalists’ Societies in the Colne, Holme and Dearne Valleys. Wood Betony illustrated by Seth Lister Mosley. The minute book of Milnsbridge Socialist Club records:. 1919 29 December: ‘Resolved that we allow Ben Goldthorpe the use of the top room for the purpose of holding a Naturalist Society [sic] but they must be given to understand they must not have any refreshments in said room.’. Firstly and most obviously, ...

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Repression And Resistance In West Riding Luddism | Underground Histories

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The website of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke. Repression And Resistance In West Riding Luddism. A Paper delivered at the ‘Enoch’s Hammer’ conference, University of Huddersfield, 12th May 2012). Machinery…is a thief and would rob thousands, we shall find that it shall be the destruction of this country. America won’t get a deal by it it will be the destruction of that country and in the end, I will venture to say, it will be the destruction of the universe. Consider another quote, from another meetin...