Older readers will enjoy re-living the scenes and activities which were the background to their youth: the younger generation will find the book gives an insight and under- standing of the factors of character, geography and climate which have combined to make Huddersfield a town of which its citizens are proud. Although he started with the advantage of a personal knowledge of Huddersfield, the author had to undertake a great deal of research and has been assiduous in checking his facts with historians and consulting the best authorities he could find on the many facets of life and activity which make up the town and community. At the same time, it had to be accurate, as far as possible, in fact and detail, to withstand examination by critics, specialists and historians. The author was invited to write the story of Huddersfield and its people in such a form that the ordinary folk of every age group would want to read it and would find it interesting. But I do know that he has spared neither time nor effort in his determination to produce a book worthy of its subject and of the occasion. He expressed a desire to do this work, largely as a labour of love whether he has since regretted undertaking such a heavy commitment, I do not know. The task of writing this book was entrusted to Major Roy Brook, x.A., a native of Huddersfield, who was educated at The College in New North Road. Is one of the ways in which the County Borough of Huddersfield celebrates and commemorates one hundred years of Borough status. Opret) prname) by Alderman Jack Sykes Mayor of Huddersfield I o l oo iid arri rrr rrr 'd INTRODUCTION But in the changes two things, I hope, will remain unchanged-the search for quality and the neighbourliness which has grown from our village roots. Huddersfield will change in the next hundred years.
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Without being arrogant, we are proud of our town and will be prouder still when at last we can abolish the dirt which still prevents the stone of our buildings, the water of our streams and the peat of our surrounding moors from showing their full beauty. We expect quality in music, in sport and in the other things we enjoy. Huddersfield men and women go for quality in cloth, in engineering, in chemicals, in anything we produce. It still is but in the meantime, without losing their identity or independence of spirit, these villages have become a great industrial community, bound together by pride and skill. One uuUuNDpRED years ago Huddersfield was a group of villages. The drawing of the Market Cross on the title page is by Noél Spencer * s # a s « bf »įIRST PUBLISHED 1968 BY MACGIBBON AND KEE LTD 3 UPPER JAMES STREET GOLDEN SQUARE LONDON W I COPYRIGHT © rRoY BROOK 1968 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY EBENEZER BAYLIS AND SON LTD THE TRINITY PRESS wORCESTER AND LONDON The Borough Arms: an interpretation by L. Please note that the text is not in the Public Domain and should not be reproduced further without the express permission of the copyright holder or their estate. Click on a page number to view the book in your web browser. This page is designed to be indexed by search engines. The following is the OCR text of a book and will likely contain conversion errors.
The Story of Huddersfield (1968) by Roy Brook The Story of Huddersfield (1968) by Roy Brook
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