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12 unusual facts about Huddersfield


Adrian Beaumont

Adrian Beaumont (born 1937, Huddersfield) is a British composer, conductor and university teacher.

Alojz Ajdič

In April 2012, Ajdič's Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra was performed in Huddersfield by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, with guest soloist, Rebecca Robertson.

Denis Bowen

After being orphaned at a young age, Bowen moved to England where he was raised by his aunt in Huddersfield.

Haddersfield, Jamaica

At the end of the tour 142 men chose to remain in Jamaica, having married and raised families, some of which may have originated from Huddersfield, thereby originating the name.

Hadersfild

The monotony of their lives is interrupted by the arrival of Igor(Damjan Kecojević), who has lived in Huddersfield since the beginning of the nineties, and this is the first time he's come to visit since.

Hadersfild (Serbian phonetic spelling of Huddersfield) is a Serbian film from 2007, directed by Ivan Živković, and the script was written by Uglješa Šajtinac.

Josephine Douglas

She was born in Huddersfield, England, and began her career by appearing in minor roles in several British films during the 1950s including the Hitchcock film Stage Fright (1950).

Lindeteves-Jacoberg Limited

In 2004, the company closed/downsized the last remaining British plants in Huddersfield and Guiseley and moved production to Poland and China.

Matt McGinn

After graduating, he trained to become a teacher at Huddersfield Teachers' Training College and went on to work as a teacher in Lanarkshire for three years before becoming the organiser of the Gorbals Adventure Playground.

Pennine Spring

Established in 1871, Pennine Spring was produced by Ben Shaws of Huddersfield.

Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association

Today, the County FA is responsible for the administration, control, promotion and development of grass-roots football within Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley, Worksop and Huddersfield.

Song Festival

Songfestival, also called song07 was a cancelled two day music festival due to take place for the first time in 2007 near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.


2007–08 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

Huddersfield Town fan Adam Pearson, former Hull City chairman, tabled a takeover bid for the Club during October, worth more than £3 million, but it was rejected.

2009–10 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

Huddersfield Town's 2009–10 campaign was the club's first full season under the chairmanship of Dean Hoyle, with manager Lee Clark in his first full season in charge of the team.

2013 in rugby league

1: Huddersfield, England - Four new members are formally inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame at a fundraising dinner at the John Smith's Stadium: Lewis Jones, Martin Offiah, Garry Schofield and Mick Sullivan.

Andy Forsyth

Andrew Forsyth is an English rugby-union player, from Clayton West, Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Aspley, West Yorkshire

Aspley is an area adjacent to the ring road around Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Ben Gronow

In 1925 Gronow became the first British player to move down under when he went from Huddersfield to Grenfell, New South Wales as their coach but returned two years later.

Bon Spence

He was a teacher at Oakes Elementary school in Huddersfield in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the same time as was Pat Devery the Australian Huddersfield rugby league international.

Brackenhall

Brackenhall is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England located 2 miles (3 km) north of Huddersfield town centre between Fixby and Sheepridge.

Cowlersley

Cowlersley is a district 2 miles (3 km) west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England it is situated between Milnsbridge and Linthwaite.

Dave Wilkes

After a bad run of games in January 2003, Wadsworth was sacked but the club couldn't pay him out so he was reinstated but was sacked again in March 2003, although Wilkes stayed as First Team Coach under Caretaker-Manager Mel Machin he left in May 2003, along with Machin and goalkeeping-coach Dave Watson, when Huddersfield were placed into administration.

Ernest Hirst

Born in New House, Deighton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, Hirst learnt his cricket with the Lascelles Hall Cricket Club and played there from 1873 to 1888.

Fartown, Huddersfield

Huddersfield's Rugby League team now known as the Huddersfield Giants played at the St. John's Ground as did the Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

Fred Lunn

Frederick Levi "Fred" Lunn (November 8, 1895 in Marsden, near Huddersfield – 1972) was a professional footballer who played as a striker for Huddersfield Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Bristol Rovers, Southend United & Nuneaton Borough.

Hoddom Castle

Hoddom was purchased in 1877 by the Brook family of Meltham, Huddersfield, who later bought nearby Kinmount House.

Hopper Read

Despite the fact that Farnes could not help him owing to injury, Read and Stan Nichols stood alone as a pace-bowling duo and in a sensational match at Huddersfield, their sheer pace off the pitch bowled out the otherwise unbeaten Yorkshire eleven for 31 and 99, giving Essex a win by an innings and 204 runs.

Huddersfield Broad Canal

Although connection to the River Colne at Huddersfield was authorised by the Act, the upper terminus was a basin at Apsley, where Ramsden built wharves and warehouses.

The Huddersfield Broad Canal (also known by its original name, Sir John Ramsden's Canal) is a wide-locked navigable canal in Yorkshire in northern England.

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal provided a heavily-locked Western connection to wool-weaving towns of the upper Colne valley (Golcar, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden) and across the Pennines to Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Manchester via Standedge Tunnel.

Huddersfield Line

Owing to a large number of easily accessed and nationally acclaimed pubs along the route (particularly on the station platforms themselves at Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Stalybridge), the route has also acquired the informal title of Rail Ale Trail and featured on the BBC's Oz and James Drink to Britain.

Huddersfield Media Centre project

The Huddersfield Media Centre is a business centre and a community of digital, media and creative enterprises in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield, England, with 121 serviced office spaces and 21 live/work studio flats located in four buildings sometimes called the Creative Quarter.

James Field

Jamie Field (born 1976), rugby league footballer for Leeds, Huddersfield Giants, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and Featherstone Rovers

Joe Cutler

Joe Cutler (born 1968) is a British composer who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland.

Kaye baronets

The Kaye Baronetcy, of Huddersfield in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 March 1923 for the textile manufacturer Joseph Kaye.

Ken Davy

At 21 he set up a commercial photography business in Huddersfield before joining Abbey Life in 1971.

Lee Peltier

Peltier was switched from right back to left back for Huddersfield's game against Millwall due to the usual left back Dean Heffernan being out with a dead leg.

Longroyd Bridge

The dominating feature of the area is the viaduct carrying the Sheffield—Huddersfield Penistone Line railway over the valley of the River Colne from the station at Lockwood to Springwood Junction and tunnel where the line continues under Greenhead to arrive at Huddersfield railway station.

Mark George

Marcus George, rugby league footballer for Huddersfield Giants, Bradford Bulls, and Halifax

Marsh, West Yorkshire

Marsh is a suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that is situated 1.5 km (1 mi) west of the town centre.

Netherthong

In 1772, John Wesley himself preached there, despite his well-known feelings on the people of the Huddersfield area.

Outlane

Outlane is a village near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 710 according to the 2001 census.

Pickle Bridge Line

The Pickle Bridge Line is a disused railway route in Northern England that ran between the cities of Huddersfield and Bradford.

Rugby League Heritage Centre

The Rugby League Heritage Centre is located in the basement of the George Hotel, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

Scapegoat Hill

Scapegoat Hill is a small village 5 miles (8 km) west of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

Shaun Lunt

Lunt is a former Castleford & Workington Town player, who joined Huddersfield in time for the 2009 Super League season.

Simon Baldry

The player is also a former pupil of the old Deighton High School, which was based in Huddersfield and has now closed.

Syd Hartley

Sydney "Syd" Hartley (born Gomersal, 22 January 1914, died Huddersfield, May 1987) was an English professional association football player.He joined Huddersfield Town in 1932 before moving to Grimsby Town the next season.

Turnbridge

Turnbridge is the area to the east of Huddersfield town centre ring road in West Yorkshire, England.

Yorkshire Evening Post

Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.

Yorkshire Tiger

With the purchase of both Stagecoach and K-Line, Centrebus Holdings became the second largest bus operator in Huddersfield after First West Yorkshire.