A free event spiced up Yorkshire’s history at a special event in Huddersfield. An afternoon called A Bit Of Yorkshire Spice featured four speakers talking about Yorkshire’s history and heritage on Sunday, November 23. The speakers were Ian Stevenson, Christina Longden, Rod Dimbleby (pictured above) and Yahya Birt. During the pandemicIan Stevenson, Chair of Huddersfield…
A new book looks at some of Huddersfield’s most magnificent houses and how their design shaped architecture in the town. Huddersfield’s Art & Crafts Houses: from Edgar Wood to the 1930s has been written by local historian David Griffiths and is being published by Huddersfield Local History Society with the support of Huddersfield Civic Society….
Author and Huddersfield Civic Society committee member Ann Denham gave a talk about her new book on the town’s Tolson Museum. The event was attended by an audience of more than 40 HCS members plus The Friends of Tolson and Ravensknowle at the Brian Jackson Centre on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. The talk was the…
The Turnbridge Mills complex is one of Huddersfield’s last remaining working textile mills and was visited by 26 Huddersfield Civic Society members. The landmark mill is on Quay Street next to the Turnbridge Lift Bridge and forms one of the development zones in Huddersfield’s Station to Stadium Enterprise Corridor. During the visit on October 2,…