Halifax Evening Courier

Calendar of Events

1909

• Saturday, 23rd January 1909: Opening of a new Liberal Club, Hove Edge

• Friday, 29th January 1909: Calder Bank Mills, Brighouse, run by J. Cheetham & Sons Limited, silk spinners, destroyed by fire

• Friday, 12th February 1909: Ernest Hutchinson the young Halifax butcher, found guilty at the Leeds Assizes of the murder of Hannah Maria Whitley at 20 Great Albion Street, Halifax, and sentenced to death

• Monday, 15th February 1909: Mr James Parker MP appointed secretary to the Labour Party

• Tuesday, 2nd March 1909: Ernest Hutchinson executed at Wakefield Jail

• Wednesday, 17th March 1909: Disastrous fire at premises of Lister Booth & Company Limited, cotton doublers, Grove Mills, Brighouse

• Saturday, 3rd April 1909: Opening of the new pavilion of the Halifax Bowling Club

• Saturday, 10th April 1909: National Commercial Temperance League annual conference in Halifax

• Thursday, 15th April 1909: West Riding Flour Mills, Cooper Bridge, destroyed by fire

• Saturday, 17th April 1909: Opening of new stores at West Vale, erected by the Sowerby Bridge Industrial Society

• Tuesday, 27th April 1909: Opening of the American Skating Rink at Clare Hall, Halifax

• Sunday, 2nd May 1909: New premises of the Boothtown Senior Working Men's Club opened

• Tuesday, 8th June 1909: Public clock in the tower at Elland Town Hall in memory of James Mackrell, formally presented to the town

• Wednesday, 23rd June 1909: Fire at the brushworks of Yates & Company, Boothtown

• Saturday, 17th July 1909: Inspection by General Wright of the Halifax Territorials, parading on Savile Park with their new colours

• Thursday, 29th July 1909: Fire at J. Crowther & Company Limited, cotton spinners, Brighouse

• Saturday, 31st July 1909: Stone laying of the new Secondary School for Girls at Brighouse

• Saturday, 14th August 1909: First sod cut on the site of the new St Hilda's Church, Gibraltar Road, Halifax

• Monday, 16th August 1909: Houses wrecked by lightning at Cragg Vale and cattle killed at a Warley farm

• Monday, 23rd August 1909: Opening by Sir Harry Rawson GCB of All Saints' New Schools, Salterhebble

• Monday, 30th August 1909: Serious fire at Stone Slack Farm, Heptonstall

• Thursday, 30th September 1909: Institution and induction of the Rev Andrew Ewbank Burn as Vicar of Halifax

• Friday, 8th October 1909: Hope Hall, Halifax, opened as the Albany Club

• Tuesday, 2nd November 1909: Celebrations of the Jubilee of All Souls' Church, Halifax

• Tuesday, 9th November 1909: Alderman F. Whitley Thomson elected for a second term as Mayor of Halifax, Councillor Robert Thornton elected Mayor of Brighouse, Alderman Edward Lord elected Mayor of Todmorden

• Monday, 22nd November 1909: Women's strike at Clay's mills, Luddendenfoot

• Monday, 20th December 1909: Arrangements completed for the formation of Northowram as a parish

• Friday, 31st December 1909: Landslip at Rastrick, several people have narrow escape

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